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Research Engineer Position in Generative Information Retrieval
- Faculty of Science
- 14514
- Master's
- €3.546 - €5.538
- 38 hours
- Closes on23-11-2025
Research Engineer Position in Generative Information Retrieval
- Faculty of Science
- 14514
- Master's
- €3.546 - €5.538
- 38 hours
- Closes on23-11-2025
Working at the UvA
Join us!
The successful candidate will play a central role in designing, building, and maintaining tools, datasets, and practices that enable reproducible, scalable, and deployable GenIR systems. You will help translate research ideas into working systems, and ensure that research artifacts (code, data, experiments) are shared, documented, and preserved properly.
The position is embedded within the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab), under the supervision of Maarten de Rijke. It is part of a broader research effort to establish a principled foundation for GenIR and is funded by the European Research Council under grant agreement no. 101201510 (UNITE).
Working at the UvA
Join us!
The successful candidate will play a central role in designing, building, and maintaining tools, datasets, and practices that enable reproducible, scalable, and deployable GenIR systems. You will help translate research ideas into working systems, and ensure that research artifacts (code, data, experiments) are shared, documented, and preserved properly.
The position is embedded within the Information Retrieval Lab (IRLab), under the supervision of Maarten de Rijke. It is part of a broader research effort to establish a principled foundation for GenIR and is funded by the European Research Council under grant agreement no. 101201510 (UNITE).
All about this vacancy
This is what you will do
- You gather, standardize, and maintain datasets, simulation environments, evaluation scripts, etc., to support reproducibility in GenIR research.
- You identify and implement best practices for code review, code sharing, and version control in collaborative research settings.
- You maintain an electronic lab notebook (or similar system) to track and preserve experimental configurations, results, and metadata.
- You help deploy generative retrieval algorithms into demonstrators or applications, working with downstream integration.
- You document and package research codebases for public release, ensuring good usability, modularity, and maintainability.
- You collaborate with PhD students, postdocs, and PIs to align engineering work with research goals and contribute to presentation/publication of results.
What we ask of you
- You hold (or are about to obtain) a Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- You have strong programming skills (Python, version control tools like Git), with experience in software engineering practices (testing, CI/CD).
You have worked with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow), ideally in large-scale multi-GPU settings. - You have an interest in reproducible research, data/data artifact management, and maintaining high standards of engineering in a research lab.
- You can work both independently and in a collaborative, academic team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
Advantageous: if you have prior experience in generative models, retrieval systems, academic software infrastructure, or deployment of ML/IR systems.
What we offer you
We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months, with a probationary period of two months. If we assess your performance positive, we will extend your contract with 3 years to a total duration of 4 years. The preferred starting date is 01.01.2026.
The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,546 to € 5,538 (scale 10) This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile O&O 1 is applicable. For this position we can not sponsor a visa. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.
Curious about our extensive secondary benefits package? You can read more about it here.
All about this vacancy
This is what you will do
- You gather, standardize, and maintain datasets, simulation environments, evaluation scripts, etc., to support reproducibility in GenIR research.
- You identify and implement best practices for code review, code sharing, and version control in collaborative research settings.
- You maintain an electronic lab notebook (or similar system) to track and preserve experimental configurations, results, and metadata.
- You help deploy generative retrieval algorithms into demonstrators or applications, working with downstream integration.
- You document and package research codebases for public release, ensuring good usability, modularity, and maintainability.
- You collaborate with PhD students, postdocs, and PIs to align engineering work with research goals and contribute to presentation/publication of results.
What we ask of you
- You hold (or are about to obtain) a Master’s degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related discipline.
- You have strong programming skills (Python, version control tools like Git), with experience in software engineering practices (testing, CI/CD).
You have worked with deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow), ideally in large-scale multi-GPU settings. - You have an interest in reproducible research, data/data artifact management, and maintaining high standards of engineering in a research lab.
- You can work both independently and in a collaborative, academic team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
Advantageous: if you have prior experience in generative models, retrieval systems, academic software infrastructure, or deployment of ML/IR systems.
What we offer you
We offer a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week for a period of 12 months, with a probationary period of two months. If we assess your performance positive, we will extend your contract with 3 years to a total duration of 4 years. The preferred starting date is 01.01.2026.
The gross monthly salary, based on 38 hours per week and dependent on relevant experience, ranges between € 3,546 to € 5,538 (scale 10) This does not include 8% holiday allowance and 8,3% year-end allowance. The UFO profile O&O 1 is applicable. For this position we can not sponsor a visa. The Collective Labour Agreement of Universities of the Netherlands is applicable.
Curious about our extensive secondary benefits package? You can read more about it here.
Your place at the UvA
Where you will work
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 mission of the Informatics Institute (IvI) is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. The main research themes are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science and Systems and Network Engineering. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component.
The research of the Information Retrieval Lab Amsterdam (IRLab) focuses on information retrieval: technology to connect people to information. We work on search engines, on recommender systems, and on conversational assistants. There is a heavy emphasis on data-driven methods, for understanding content, for analyzing and predicting user behavior, and for make sense of context. We combine fundamental, experimental, and applied research, and we do so by using a broad range of data: text, images, structured information. We are involved in many projects with other groups, both within and outside academia. Our research is funded by NWO, KNAW, the EU and through a range of public-private partnerships. We are strong believers of pursuing great science with great societal impact, and value an entrepreneurial spirit.
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Your place at the UvA
This is where you will be working
Where you will work
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 mission of the Informatics Institute (IvI) is to perform curiosity-driven and use-inspired fundamental research in Computer Science. The main research themes are Artificial Intelligence, Computational Science and Systems and Network Engineering. Our research involves complex information systems at large, with a focus on collaborative, data driven, computational and intelligent systems, all with a strong interactive component.
The research of the Information Retrieval Lab Amsterdam (IRLab) focuses on information retrieval: technology to connect people to information. We work on search engines, on recommender systems, and on conversational assistants. There is a heavy emphasis on data-driven methods, for understanding content, for analyzing and predicting user behavior, and for make sense of context. We combine fundamental, experimental, and applied research, and we do so by using a broad range of data: text, images, structured information. We are involved in many projects with other groups, both within and outside academia. Our research is funded by NWO, KNAW, the EU and through a range of public-private partnerships. We are strong believers of pursuing great science with great societal impact, and value an entrepreneurial spirit.
More about the UvA
Important to know
Your application & contact
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the red button. We accept applications until and including 23 November 2025. Applications should include the following information (all files besides your CV should be submitted in one single pdf file):
- a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
- a letter of motivation;
- a list of publications;
- the names and email addresses of two references who can provide letters of recommendation.
Due to Dutch legislation, the UvA is for non-scientific positions obliged to recruit within the EU. If you are not a EU-citizen (including Norway and Switzerland) please do not apply for this vacancy.
Please use the CV field to upload your resume as a separate pdf document. Use the Cover Letter field to upload the other requested documents, including the motivation letter, as one single pdf file. Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered.
Do you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact:
- Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke, [email protected]
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Important to know
Your application & contact
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the red button. We accept applications until and including 23 November 2025. Applications should include the following information (all files besides your CV should be submitted in one single pdf file):
- a detailed CV including the months (not just years) when referring to your education and work experience;
- a letter of motivation;
- a list of publications;
- the names and email addresses of two references who can provide letters of recommendation.
Due to Dutch legislation, the UvA is for non-scientific positions obliged to recruit within the EU. If you are not a EU-citizen (including Norway and Switzerland) please do not apply for this vacancy.
Please use the CV field to upload your resume as a separate pdf document. Use the Cover Letter field to upload the other requested documents, including the motivation letter, as one single pdf file. Only complete applications received within the response period via the link below will be considered.
Do you have any questions or do you require additional information? Please contact:
- Prof. dr. Maarten de Rijke, [email protected]
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