Major duties and responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of computational neuroscience applications using state of the art computational neuroscience simulation packages and INAIT applications
• Contribute to the development of computational neuroscience models of neurons and neural networks
• Perform a technical survey of computational neuroscience algorithms and technology

Essential skills and experience required:

• University degree in computational neuroscience
• Professional experience in state of the art computational neuroscience simulation frameworks such as NEST, NEURON, GENESIS, …
• Experience in developing computational models of morphologically and/or (preferred) point neuron models
• Professional experience in Python code development
• Professional experience using UNIX/Linux operating systems
• Good team player
• Fluent spoken and written English

Preferred:

• Experience in the development of state of the art computational neuroscience simulation frameworks such as NEST, NEURON, GENESIS, …
• Experience in the use of computational neuroscience simulation frameworks paradigms on shared and/or distributed parallel machines.
• Professional experience in the software development life-cycle including unit testing, continuous integration, version control, debugging and documentation

Profile:

• Master’s degree or PhD (preferred) in computational neuroscience followed by at least 2-years professional experience
• Quality-driven work ethics
• Successful track record in designing, developing and maintaining software projects