At CropXR, our multidisciplinary team of data engineers, architects, and scientists is dedicated to supporting plant researchers in collecting, storing, processing, and analyzing data. Our data engineers provide expert guidance, assist in technological choices, utilize data standards, and perform data processing for consortium partners.

We are expanding our team and seeking a talented Data Engineer with experience in collecting datasets, programming and scripting, big data analysis, data management tools, and bioinformatics.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Make data accessible and usable through processing, organization, analysis, and visualization.
• Advise on data management and ensure data and metadata are FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
• Link and interoperate various data sources, including APIs.
• Establish structured and standardized data collections on the evolving CropXR infrastructure.
• Engage in research-driven projects and initiate independent data initiatives.
• Perform data integration, validation, and cleansing.

Join us at TU Delft and be a part of pioneering advancements in plant research with your expertise in data engineering.

The person we are looking for:

• Has a completed university degree, preferably in computer science, data science, IT, or bioinformatics.
• Has experience with programming and scripting, e.g., Java, Python, SQL, and/or R.
• Has experience with data management tools, e.g., relational databases, NoSQL databases.
• Has experience with the use of metadata, (meta)data standards, and documenting them.
• Has excellent analytical, communicative, and social skills.
• Is proficient in English.
• Has experience working in multidisciplinary teams and an affinity for working in a research environment.

Fixed-term contract: 5 years.

• A salary based on scale] 10of the CAO for Dutch Universities with a minimum of € 3.226,-and a maximum of € 5.090,- gross per month based on a fulltime contract (38 hours), plus 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3%.
• An excellent pension scheme via the ABP.
• The possibility to compile an individual employment package every year.
• Discount with health insurers.
• Flexible working week.
• Every year, 232 leave hours (at 38 hours). You can also sell or buy additional leave hours via the individual choice budget.
• Plenty of opportunities for education, training and courses.
• Partially paid parental leave
• Attention for working healthy and energetically with the vitality program.

Delft University of Technology

Delft University of Technology is built on strong foundations. As creators of the world-famous Dutch waterworks and pioneers in biotech, TU Delft is a top international university combining science, engineering and design. It delivers world class results in education, research and innovation to address challenges in the areas of energy, climate, mobility, health and digital society. For generations, our engineers have proven to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers, both in business and in a social context.

At TU Delft we embrace diversity as one of our core values and we actively engage to be a university where you feel at home and can flourish. We value different perspectives and qualities. We believe this makes our work more innovative, the TU Delft community more vibrant and the world more just. Together, we imagine, invent and create solutions using technology to have a positive impact on a global scale. That is why we invite you to apply. Your application will receive fair consideration.

Challenge. Change. Impact!

Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) brings together three scientific disciplines. Combined, they reinforce each other and are the driving force behind the technology we all use in our daily lives. Technology such as the electricity grid, which our faculty is helping to make completely sustainable and future-proof. At the same time, we are developing the chips and sensors of the future, whilst also setting the foundations for the software technologies to run on this new generation of equipment – which of course includes AI. Meanwhile we are pushing the limits of applied mathematics, for example mapping out disease processes using single cell data, and using mathematics to simulate gigantic ash plumes after a volcanic eruption. In other words: there is plenty of room at the faculty for ground-breaking research. We educate innovative engineers and have excellent labs and facilities that underline our strong international position. In total, more than 1000 employees and 4,000 students work and study in this innovative environment.

Click here to go to the website of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

CropXR

CropXR was launched in 2023 to help make agricultural production less vulnerable to climate change and less dependent on artificial fertilizers and chemical pesticides. The institute is a joint venture of the universities of Amsterdam, Delft, Wageningen and Utrecht in partnership with Plantum, the Dutch plant breeding sector association. CropXR brings together efforts from different academic disciplines (such as plant sciences, computational and data sciences, and social sciences) and private industry to help bring about sustainable change. It receives support from NWO, the Dutch National Growth Fund, and the Foundation for Food & Agricultural Research. Learn more about CropXR at cropx.org.

CropXR

CropXR was launched in 2023 to help make agricultural production less vulnerable to climate change and less dependent on artificial fertilizers and chemical pesticides. The institute is a joint venture of the universities of Amsterdam, Delft, Wageningen and Utrecht in partnership with Plantum, the Dutch plant breeding sector association. CropXR brings together efforts from different academic disciplines (such as plant sciences, computational and data sciences, and social sciences) and private industry to help bring about sustainable change. It receives support from NWO, the Dutch National Growth Fund, and the Foundation for Food & Agricultural Research. Learn more about CropXR at cropx.org.

This position is with the Delft Bioinformatics Lab, part of the Computer Science department of the Delft University of Technology under supervision of Prof. Marcel Reinders, m.j.t.reinders@tudelft.nl and Thomas Abeel, t.abeel@tudelft.nl. In addition, this position is embedded in the DataXR part of the CropXR national program, for which Auke Damstra, a.j.damstra@uu.nl, is the CTO.