[Vacancy]: Scientific Programmer / Research Engineer for the future of OpenML
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Jan N. van Rijn
Jul 23, 2026, 12:27:25 PM (6 days ago) Jul 23
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🚀 We're hiring a Scientific Programmer / Research Engineer for the future of OpenML.
4-year funded position. Leiden-based (15 min by train from Amsterdam Airport). You'd work directly with Holger Hoos, Joaquin Vanschoren, and me on one of the most widely used open platforms in machine learning research.
What you'll work on:
🔧 Elegant APIs and intuitive interfaces that make OpenML accessible to everyone, from first-time users to expert researchers 🤖 Defining and building agentic interfaces to OpenML 🌐 Strengthening OpenML's federated position, integrating seamlessly with infrastructure like HuggingFace and DataVerse 💻 Improving the OpenML codebase and reviewing contributions from our global community
What you'll get: ✅ Embedding in a thriving team spanning several universities, working on a platform used worldwide ✅ Real autonomy in an ambitious research environment ✅ Visibility in the international research community, with travel to conferences and labs ✅ A path toward an open-source leadership role on the OpenML core team ✅ A central position in the open-source research world ✅ The possibility to complete your PhD on this position [in discussion].
Curious what OpenML is about? Read our recent paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001655
4-year funded position. Leiden-based (15 min by train from Amsterdam Airport). You'd work directly with Holger Hoos, Joaquin Vanschoren, and me on one of the most widely used open platforms in machine learning research.
What you'll work on:
🔧 Elegant APIs and intuitive interfaces that make OpenML accessible to everyone, from first-time users to expert researchers 🤖 Defining and building agentic interfaces to OpenML 🌐 Strengthening OpenML's federated position, integrating seamlessly with infrastructure like HuggingFace and DataVerse 💻 Improving the OpenML codebase and reviewing contributions from our global community
What you'll get: ✅ Embedding in a thriving team spanning several universities, working on a platform used worldwide ✅ Real autonomy in an ambitious research environment ✅ Visibility in the international research community, with travel to conferences and labs ✅ A path toward an open-source leadership role on the OpenML core team ✅ A central position in the open-source research world ✅ The possibility to complete your PhD on this position [in discussion].
Curious what OpenML is about? Read our recent paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001655
📩 Apply now, deadline October 15 (but we will hire once the right candidate presented themselves): https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Scientific-Programmer-Post-Doctoral-Researcher-on-Project-Hippocampus-The-Future-of-OpenML/16756-en_US
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