<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please announce this job opportunity in Brazil (apologies for cross-posting):</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px">IT Specialist positions in the NeuroMat Project (University of Sao Paulo - Brazil)</span><br></div><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:13px">The Center for Research, Innovation, and Dissemination NeuroMat is offering technical training scholarships for Computer Science/Engineering professionals interested in applying their Computing experience on world class scientific research. The recipient will interact with researchers from USP and other NeuroMat collaborating institutions in activities of development, customization, maintenance, and deployment of software to support the research activities of the center.</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">The NeuroMat project aims to integrate modeling with basic and applied research at the frontier of neuroscience. The goal of the project is to develop a mathematical and computational framework leading to the theoretical understanding of neural systems, fully integrated with experimental research in neuroscience. New models, theories, and open source software will be developed to handle the huge quantity of data produced by current experimental research and to provide a conceptual framework for the multiscale aspects of neural phenomena.</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">Neuromat is a "Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center" funded by FAPESP (Sao Paulo Research Foundation), an independent public foundation with the mission to foster research and the scientific and technological development of the State of São Paulo, in Brazil.</span></font></font><div>
<a href="http://www.numec.prp.usp.br/NeuroMat/Presentation?set_language=en-us">http://www.numec.prp.usp.br/NeuroMat/Presentation?set_language=en-us</a><font color="#000000"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Number of available positions: 3 </span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Monthly Salary: BRL 5.908,80 (for 40 hours of work per week)</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Requirements: applicants should be graduated in Computer Science/Engineering (or other related area) and must have a Ph.D. degree OR at least five years of proven experience in Information Technology. Candidates with less experience may still apply and an appropriate salary will be negotiated with FAPESP.</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Duration: six to twenty-four months</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Place of work: Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) - University of São Paulo (USP) - São Paulo / Brazil</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">- Planned activities include one or more of the following: database modeling, implementation and management; development of open source computational systems and tools to acquire, store and analyze data from neuroscience experiments such as the electrophysiological (EEG, TMS, EMG, etc.), neuroimaging (MRI, MEG, etc.) and behavioral experiments; creation and maintenance of the project Web portal. </span><br style="font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:13px">The software developed in NeuroMat will be both used internally by members of the project as a means to carry on the project-related research as well as released as Open Source Software on the Web portal of the project.</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">The scholarships will be awarded to candidates capable of carrying out at least one of the following activities:</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> 1) Software architecture and development</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:13px"> 2) Software testing, packaging, and distribution</span><br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px"> 3) Dissemination of results in Web portal</span><br style="font-size:13px"><br style="font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:13px">- Candidates with one or more of the following skills will be preferred: databases (preferable PostgreSQL or MySQL/MariaDB), object-oriented programming and Web programming (JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or others), persistence frameworks (for example, Hibernate and ActiveRecord), agile software development, software testing, Matlab, processing of biological signals (such as EEG, EMG and fMRI).</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">The trainees will not only offer support for the products to be developed by the research project but will also be trained by the USP FLOSS Competence Center (</span><a href="http://ccsl.ime.usp.br/" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">http://ccsl.ime.usp.br</a><span style="font-size:13px">) in advanced techniques for the development and dissemination of open source software and digital media.</span><br style="font-size:13px">
<br style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:13px">To apply for one of these positions, please send your CV to Lourdes Netto (</span><a href="mailto:lourdesv@ime.usp.br" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px">lourdesv@ime.usp.br</a><span style="font-size:13px">) until September 15th, 2013.</span></font><span style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:13px"> </span></font><br style="font-family:'Courier New';font-size:13px">
<br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><p>Dr. Antonio C. Roque<br>Professor Associado<br>Departamento de Fisica<br>FFCLRP, Universidade de Sao Paulo<br>14040-901 Ribeirao Preto-SP<br>Brazil - Brasil</p><div>E-mails: </div><div>
<a href="mailto:antonior@ffclrp.usp.br" target="_blank">antonior@ffclrp.usp.br</a></div><div><a href="mailto:aroquesilva@gmail.com" target="_blank">aroquesilva@gmail.com</a><br>URL: <a href="http://www.sisne.org" target="_blank">www.sisne.org</a></div>
<p>Tels: +55 16 3602-3768 (sala/office);<br> +55 16 3602-3859 (lab)<br>FAX: +55 16 3602-4887</p><p> </p>
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