Graphic-designer / Programmer with artistic ambitions
binia....@gmail.com
We are a young and passionate team of interdisciplinary scientists who juggle big and complex data to address big and complex challenges in biomedical research. With your help, we want to design and build a virtual reality platform to visualize these data and interact with them in a way that has never been done before.
The Project — We will build a virtual reality “holodeck” that will allow us to explore our complex biological datasets in an intuitive, interactive and cooperative fashion. To realize our ambitious vision we teamed up with Prof. Hannes Kaufmann from TU Vienna (https://www.ims.tuwien.ac.at/people/hannes-kaufmann), who is a world-expert in virtual reality technology and will lead the technology development. In close collaboration with his team, you will shape the looks and feels of the holodeck, including for example, the visual design of the data visualization and the development of an intuitive user-interface concept. These are some of your tasks:
- Development of the User Interface (UI) using HTC Vive Controllers and a LeapMotion sensor
- Data exchange between bio-software and the VR engine (based on Unreal 4)
- Implementation of the UI – Data Storage communication system
- Further extension of UI functionality
The Candidate — First and foremost, we are looking for a person that possesses a combination of creativity and analytical ability. You might be a tech-savvy graphic-designer, a programmer with artistic ambitions or a data scientist hooked on visualizations. Skills that will help you include
- Programming: C++
- Knowledge of the Unreal game engine
- Experience in UI design: 3DUI/ UI in VR is good, UI in Unreal even better
- Experience in 3D data visualization
If you have a background in any of these and are eager to learn the others, this might be the perfect opportunity for you.
Application Details — If you share our conviction that art & science can inspire each other and want to join an institute that has been elected to be among the best places to work and is located in one of the best cities in the world, please compile an application package containing
- A cover letter
- Your CV
- An example of (or reference to) your previous work
- Contact details of two referees
and upload your application documents online: https://prescreen.io/j/mnwm5q3u
We take career development of our staff seriously and strongly believe in diversity and equal opportunity. We would therefore like to explicitly encourage women to engage in this area of science in which the gender bias is particularly evident. Tasks and pay are commensurable with experience and skills and oriented at the standards of the Austrian Science Fund (see: http://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting immediately until the position is filled. Applications received after September 30th are unlikely to be considered. The starting date is relatively flexible.