CLARIN-CH Technical Officer 20 %

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Your responsibilities

We are looking for a highly motivated, curious and technically skilled Technical Officer to strengthen the CLARIN-CH Coordination Office and help bridge computational and data infrastructures with research in linguistics, digital humanities and related disciplines.

Key responsibilities

Researcher support

• Provide technical advice and practical support on language data, research data management, data workflows and Data Management Plans (DMPs).
• Support researchers in selecting and using appropriate standards and infrastructure services.
• Contribute to the CLARIN-CH FAIRification pipeline, identifying relevant datasets and tools and supporting their integration into CLARIN and CLARIN-CH infrastructures.

Infrastructure and FAIR data

• Contribute to developing, maintaining and improving technical solutions supporting FAIR and Open Research Data (ORD) practices in collaboration with the technical partners forming the CLARIN-CH ecosystem
• Support the integration and interoperability of repositories, metadata, data workflows and linguistic resources within the Swiss and European CLARIN ecosystem.
• Document and improve technical workflows supporting the accessibility, discoverability and reuse of language resources.

Your profile

• MA/MSc or current PhD enrolment in computational/corpus linguistics, digital humanities, language technology, computer science or a related field.
• Demonstrated technical skills in language technology, data processing and/or research software development, including Python, APIs, JSON/XML, metadata schemas and GitHub/GitLab.
• Previous experience with research data management, DMP tools, data stewardship and/or research data infrastructures.
• Good knowledge of FAIR and ORD practices, preferably for language data.
• Familiarity with CLARIN infrastructures is an advantage.
• Strong technical curiosity and ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Good organisational and task-management skills.

Languages

• Excellent command of English required.
• Working capacity in German (native or min. B2) required.
• French and/or Italian is an advantage.