The business unit for Digital Infrastructure at the KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam is looking for a Software Engineer/Developer.

About us             
We have an open culture at HuC Digital Infrastructure. This means you can walk up to another developer and ask him questions, but also that the software you will write for HuC will be open sourced whenever we can. Every month there are ‘borrels’ where you can relax, have a drink and listen to the manager of DI giving a five-minute status update on the department.

Job description
A new team is being set up within the HuC Digital Infrastructure that will focus on image analysis. There are many research projects using images and related data. The main goal of the new team is to extract information from images and make this usable for research. The tooling really often is innovating. It regularly results in scientific papers. We build these tools with and for scientists who work at the institutes and of course for the general public.

Do you like analyzing images using computers? Do you like history a bit? And most importantly: do you know how to code?

To be successful you have:

• a Bachelor or Master degree;
• strong skills in Java, working knowledge of JavaScript, and basic Python skills;
• working knowledge of SQL and ElasticSearch;
• affinity with analyses of (mostly document) images using computer vision;
• some knowledge of deep learning tools;
• communication skills, fluency in English ( Dutch is appreciated);
• it is a plus if you also have skills in front-end development (React, HTML, CSS) and/or the following back-end software: Dropwizard, XML, OpenCV, Docker.

The appointment at the HuC Digital Infrastructure is 38 hours a week for a period of 2 years. Depending on education and experience, the salary amounts to at least € 2,640 gross per month and a maximum of € 4,166 gross per month (scale 10 CAO-NU) for full-time employment, excluding 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% year-end bonus. On top of that, you’ll be part of a fun and generally awesome international team of smart people.