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Lund University was founded in 1666 and is consistently ranked among the world's leading universities. We have approximately 46,000 students and 8,500 employees in Lund, Helsingborg, and Malmö. We are united in our strive to understand, explain, and improve our world and the conditions of human life.

Description of the workplace

Lund University's Humanities Laboratory (www.humlab.lu.se (https://www.humlab.lu.se)) is a university-wide platform for research infrastructure that supports the study of human behavior within cognition, communication, and culture. By offering free access to advanced equipment, methodological support, and training, the Lab enables researchers to collect data, perform analysis, and develop methods. The operation is interdisciplinary and open to researchers from many different fields, serving as a meeting place between academia and society. The Lab's current facilities have enabled innovative research in many areas, but demand is increasingly for mobile solutions. Researchers want to study people and environments in their natural contexts – such as homes, schools, workplaces, and field environments. To meet this need, the research infrastructure must become more flexible and portable, so that it can be taken to the research subject rather than the other way around.

As part of a recently awarded RJ grant called GoLab, the Humanities Laboratory needs to recruit new competence to support a push towards more mobile, "on-the-go" data collection, which is in demand by an increasing number of users. The Humanities Laboratory needs to recruit a Research Engineer with a background in computer vision and machine learning to support hardware installation and the development of analysis tools for mobile eye tracking. Read more about the Lab's eye tracking facilities here: https://www.humlab.lu.se/equipment-expertise/eye-tracking/ (https://www.humlab.lu.se/equipment-expertise/eye-tracking/)

The Humanities Laboratory is organizationally placed within the Faculty of Humanities and Theology and has offices and experimental studios located on the HT campus; the Language and Literature Centre (SOL) and LUX. The Lab has approximately 25 employees and is an international environment with several guest researchers each semester.

We offer

Lund University is a government agency, which means you receive special benefits, generous vacation time, and a favorable occupational pension.

We also have a flextime agreement and an agreement for remote work.

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Tasks and responsibilities

You have experience with eye tracking, computer vision, and machine learning and will work on supporting the development of new analysis tools for mobile eye tracking. You will work closely with the Lab's eye tracking experts and develop a pipeline for automated analysis of a broad spectrum of data from experiments with wearable eye tracking systems. The tasks include:

• Programming/system architecture for analysis tools
• Evaluation of methods used in the tool (both for selecting methods and for verifying the robustness of the implementation)
• Collection of evaluation and demo data
• Preparation of documentation
• Authoring scientific publications

Qualifications

Requirements for the position are:

You must have a PhD in computer science, computer vision, or a related field. The degree must be completed no later than the start date of employment.

You must have documented experience in:

• Eye tracking, preferably wearable
• Computer vision
• Machine learning
• Programming/software development: Python as well as system/tool architecture and code refactoring
• Experience with automated analysis of data from wearable eye tracking systems
• Documented experience in developing open source tools for collecting or analyzing eye tracking data

Good communication skills in Swedish or English (oral and written).

We place great emphasis on personal suitability. You take responsibility for your tasks and work in a structured and meticulous manner. You can collaborate with colleagues at different levels.

Merits for the position are:

• Experience working in a multi-user lab
• Experience working independently as well as method development and collaboration in a group

Other

The position is permanent at 100% with a start date of January 1, 2027, or as agreed. The project runs until December 31, 2029, at the latest.

How to apply

The position is applied for via the university's recruitment system. The application must include a cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position and how it matches your qualifications. The application must also include a CV, degree certificate or equivalent, and any other documents you wish to submit (copies of grades, contact details for references, recommendation letters, etc.)

About the Faculty of Humanities and Theology

The Faculty of Humanities and Theology has seven departments and conducts extensive and varied activities in research and education. We have approximately 700 employees and approximately 4,000 full-time equivalent students.

About the Humanities Laboratory

The Humanities Laboratory is an interdisciplinary research and educational facility primarily for researchers, teachers, and students from the Faculty of Humanities and Theology. The Lab houses technology, methodological knowledge, archiving expertise, and a wide range of research projects. The Lab's activities are centered around humanities research with research questions within communication, culture, cognition, and learning. Several projects are interdisciplinary and are conducted in collaboration with social sciences, medicine, natural sciences, engineering, and e-science. We have partners and collaborators locally, nationally, and internationally. The Lab is a vibrant and dynamic environment that enables humanities researchers to combine traditional and new methods, and collaborate with other disciplines to meet the scientific challenges ahead to understand, explain, and improve human conditions.

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