Research Engineer in Digital Humanities – User Interface Development (1 Year)

Contexte et atouts du poste

The position is funded within the research project BACK IN TIME, hosted at Inria (Nancy, France), within the Caramba team (LORIA). The project aims to develop the first open-source software dedicated to the automated cryptanalysis of historical encrypted documents (15th–19th centuries), at the intersection of cryptography, artificial intelligence, history, and digital humanities.

The Research Engineer will work in a highly interdisciplinary environment, in close collaboration with cryptographers, historians, and experts in digital humanities and AI. The software developed in the project is primarily intended for non-technical end users, especially historians and archivists, making usability, accessibility, and methodological transparency central concerns.

The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to an internationally visible project combining cutting-edge computational meth...