Research opportunities at Topos in early 2023
We invite applications to join Topos Institute as a Research Associate (summer 2023) or as a Research Software Engineer (regular position).
Topos Institute is pleased to announce two research job opportunities in early 2023. Topos is committed to building a team with diverse perspectives and life experiences, so those with personal or professional backgrounds underrepresented at Topos are highly encouraged to apply.
- Summer Research Associate for our summer 2023 program: applications due by February 15th
- Research Software Engineer, a full-time, regular position: rolling applications until position is filled
Read on for more about these roles!
1 Summer Research Associate
Come spend the summer at the Topos Institute! For early-career researchers, we’re excited to invite applications to our summer research associate (RA) program. You can find out more from the call for applications.
Summer RAs are an important part of life at Topos—they help explore new directions relevant to Topos projects, and they bring new ideas, energy, and expertise to our research groups. In 2023, we’ll welcome a new cohort of RAs to our offices in Berkeley, CA, with the program running from June to August.
To learn about projects, mentors, and RA from past summers, see our summary page with links to blog posts and other materials.
Applications are now open. The position is full-time (~40 hours per week) and paid at a rate between 30 and 45 USD per hour, depending on experience. Unfortunately, Topos is not able to sponsor US work visas for participants. To apply, please fill out this application by February 15th.
2 Research Software Engineer
We invite applications to join the Topos Institute as a Research Software Engineer (RSE). The RSE will work on finding the right abstractions for data integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, and scientific modeling, and will implement them in research software using the Julia and/or Scala programming languages. A strong background in programming is required. Knowledge of category theory and prior experience with Julia or Scala are preferred but not required.
For more information, including instructions on how to apply, please see the call for applications. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions!
In this position, the RSE will develop mathematics and research software as part of the AlgebraicJulia project, which includes the core packages Catlab.jl and Semagrams.jl and a variety of domain-specific packages for compositional modeling. The slides below give an overview of the AlgebraicJulia project.