You will develop and maintain a cutting-edge motion capture facility, including a Vicon-based motion capture hardware setup, as well as software for efficient recording and post-processing of 3D animations, in particular for sign language research. You will be a member of SignLab and will work within the lab space of the Visualisation Lab .You will support various research projects that make use of the motion capture facility, adapting and extending the pipeline where needed. In addition to your technical and research responsibilities, you will share your knowledge and expertise with the next generation of students through teaching in our bachelor's programmes, and will supervise students working on their thesis projects.

Your experience and profile (below are examples, you don’t need to use them):

• MSc in Software Engineering;
• At least two years experience working on motion capture technology and 3D animation in a research context;
• Specifically, familiarity with Vicon motion capture hardware and software and with Unreal/Unity animation software;
• Readiness to participate in interdisciplinary cooperation and multidisciplinary development;
• Professional command of English and Dutch;
• Familiarity with Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) or another sign language.

We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of one year with a probationary period of two months. If proven suitable, an extension or permanent employment is possible. The preferred starting date is January 1st, 2027.

The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,873 to € 5,264 (scale 9).This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile name profile and level
Education/Research Officer 2 is applicable. For this position we can not sponsor a visa.A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants.The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable. Read more about our extensive secondary benefits package.

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 8,000, as well as 1,800 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation is home to a thriving community of scholars, including philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, musicologists, and cognitive scientists, who share a fascination with the interdisciplinary study of information. At the ILLC we combine the problem solving skills from the sciences with the holistic and reflective view of the humanities to discover the principles that regulate information processing and find answers to some of the hardest challenges of our time.

SignLab is an inter-faculty research group working on new foundations for sign language research as well as practical applications for sign language users and learners.

The Visualisation Lab is a research facility supporting students and researchers to carry out projects in computer graphics, visualisation, and extended reality.

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