Research Engineer F/M in Distributed and Secure Collaborative Systems

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description This research engineer position is part of the PILOT (Practices and Infrastructure for Long-Term Collaboration) project within the French national research programme PEPR eNSEMBLE (Future of Digital Collaboration). Running from 2023 to 2030, PILOT is coordinated by Claudia-Lavinia Ignat (Inria), Myriam Lewkowicz (Université de Technologie de Troyes), and François Charoy (Université de Lorraine). The project brings together 15 partner institutions and approximately 25 research teams. PILOT aims to design and develop the next generation of collaborative technologies that support sustainable, secure, and interoperable collaboration across organizational boundaries. By combining research in distributed systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and social sciences, the project seeks to develop collaborative infrastructures grounded in actual work practices and organizational needs. A central objective of PILOT is to overcome the limitations of existing collaborative platforms, particularly their dependence on centralized services, limited interoperability, and restricted user control over shared data. The project investigates alternative approaches that enable organizations and individuals to collaborate while preserving their autonomy, privacy, and control over their data and tools. The successful candidate will join the LORELEY research team