Bms lab lead programmer and tech coördinator

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The University of Twente. We stand for life sciences and technology. High tech and human touch. Education and research that matter. New technology which leads change, innovation and progress in society. The University of Twente is the only campus university of the Netherlands; divided over five faculties we provide more than fifty educational programmes. We have a strong focus on personal development and talented researchers are given scope for carrying out groundbreaking research.
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Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences
The Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social sciences (BMS) strives to play a pivotal role in understanding, co-engineering and evaluating innovation in society. Innovation is driven by advances in technology. Through 'social engineering' these technological advances are embedded in society befitting human needs and behaviour, within proper public and private management and business structures. For this the faculty of BMS upholds high quality disciplinary knowledge in psychology, business administration, public administration, communication science, philosophy, educational science and health sciences. All with a focus on the challenges in society. Research is strongly connected to our Institutes on Governance (IGS), ICT (CTIT), Health (MIRA) and Nanotechnology (MESA+).


Job Description

You are able to successfully develop projects in alignment with researchers, but are also comfortable to manage a team of sourced software developers. You have an engineering background with programming experience in languages such as e.g. C#/PHP/Python/Matlab, able to develop and design for mixed reality purposes (e.g. Unity) and interest to work with new types of technologies (eeg, wearables, motion capture and more). You are able to work autonomously and in multidisciplinary project teams. In addition, you are able to set up new environments within both lab and field settings. You explore new solutions (literature search, prototype testing, integration strategies and requirements engineering) and translate research requirements into technical requirements.
Furthermore, you have interest in or affinity with the social sciences, have a creative mindset and have a service orientation as well as an independent opinion. You can clearly articulate this in both speech and writing, also to non-technical audiences.


Salary and Benefits

You will be working in a high-tech environment of the BMS LAB, with an office space in Cubicus and Design Lab. You will be assigned to the Faculty Behavioural Management Sciences for, at least, the duration of 2 year (0,8 -1 fte). In addition, the University of Twente offers attractive employment conditions (for example, 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% end-of-year bonus), excellent facilities for professional and personal development. The salary is in accordance with the job profile under the University System for Job Classification (UJC) scale 9.