Computer Engineer, AI Educational Platform (MACMIA Project) – 12-month Fixed-Term Contract

🚀 Joining Mines Saint-Étienne means committing to an institution where science and innovation build a more sustainable future. A school of excellence where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential and contribute to meeting tomorrow's challenges.

Ranked among the best engineering schools in France and recognized worldwide, our school, a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, trains tomorrow's talents while actively contributing to addressing major industrial, digital, and environmental challenges. With us, you will join a community of 500 employees, 2500 students, and participate in an ambitious project: combining academic excellence, cutting-edge research, and positive societal impact.

The Institut Mines-Télécom unites French Grandes Écoles around major industrial, digital, energy, and ecological challenges. With its 8 public Grandes Écoles and 2 subsidiary schools, it is the leading public institute dedicated to engineers and managers. Together, we imagine and build a sustainable future, training the actors who will shape tomorrow's transitions.

At Mines Saint-Étienne, our research centers are the beating heart of our School.

Conceived as true innovation hubs, our five Training and Research Centers articulate their expertise around major industrial, environmental, societal, and technological issues.

Their mission? To imagine the world of tomorrow by combining academic excellence and concrete impact.

Digital, ecological, industrial transitions: the major challenges of our time are also those of the Institut Henri Fayol.

Here, Computer Science, Data Science, Management, Human and Social Sciences, and Environmental Engineering blend together to conceptualize the complex systems of tomorrow: territories, companies, industrial sectors.

📊 Resilience, performance, sustainability… We develop and experiment in close collaboration with socio-economic actors to meet the demands of current transitions.

✨ Interdisciplinary research with high impact, where the human element is always at the center.

🎯What we expect from you

As part of the MACMIA project for scaling up AI skills and professions, you will contribute to the development of educational platforms involving a set of software resources interacting with physical objects, including programmable robots. The primary platform of this type, MaqIT, is managed and maintained by the Institut Henri Fayol, connecting engineers and teacher-researchers who use the platform for practical AI work.

This recruitment aims to support the training activities offered within the framework of the MACMIA project, which is a response to the France 2030 call for expressions of interest on future AI skills and professions, and involves 7 higher education institutions, 3 skills and qualification campuses, 2 competitiveness clusters, 7 companies, 1 skills operator, and France Travail.

Under the direction of the head of the Computer Science and Intelligent Systems (ISI) department, you will carry out a range of engineering tasks. More specifically, the objectives are:

• Participate in the improvement of the MaqIT platform: develop interactive interfaces facilitating the use of the platform's connected components (mobile robots, robotic arms, conveyors, various sensors, and actuators)

• Maintain software for operating connected components (upgrades and testing)

• Integrate new connected components and ensure their operation with the rest of the hardware, particularly by deploying interactive interfaces to facilitate their use

• Assist in designing educational content related to the developed platforms and software (for practical work on human-computer interaction, real-world interaction, or knowledge graphs and reasoning)

• Define educational scenarios utilizing the MaqIT platform (a guiding theme within the AI Challenge of the Civil Mines Engineer program).

For this project, you will interact with engineers from the Institut Henri Fayol's engineering department and with teacher-researchers.

🔍 What we are looking for

You hold a Master's degree (Bac+5) or equivalent and possess:

• Proven experience in software design

• Good command of programming (especially Python, C++, or Java)

• Knowledge in AI technologies

Your additional assets:

• Knowledge of the ROS (Robot Operating System) environment

• User interface design and UX Design

• Practice with machine learning tools

• Knowledge engineering

• Past collaboration with teacher-researchers

• Interest in pedagogy and possibly, teaching experience

• Rigor, teamwork, autonomy, proactivity

📩 Apply now!

Deadline: 10/10/2026

To apply, please submit the following on our dedicated platform Recruitee:

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/ingenieur-en-informatique-plateforme-pedagogique-pour-lia-projet-macmia-cdd-12-mois

• A cover letter,

• A curriculum vitae detailing your teaching activities, research work, and possibly, connections with the economic sector,

• Possibly, one or more letter(s) of recommendation,

• A copy of your doctoral degree,

• A copy of an identity document.

Desired start date: 01/01/2027

ℹ️ Additional information

• Position open subject to administrative validation

• Nature and duration of the contract: 12-month fixed-term contract

• Position location: Saint-Étienne (42).

• Salary fixed according to candidate profile, based on rules defined by the management framework of Institut Mines Télécom.

• Positions offered for recruitment are open to all, with, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

• Position open to civil servants (Category A - seconded on contract) and/or contract employees.

• In the medium term, a permanent position may be opened.

• All applications may be subject to an administrative investigation.

 📞 Contacts

o   Regarding the position content:

Antoine ZIMMERMANN – Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Department
Email:

Flavien BALBO – Professor, Director of Institut Henri Fayol
Email:

o   Regarding administrative/HR aspects:

Amélie HUCHET – HR Manager
Email: Tel: +33 (0)4 77 42 93 05

🌍 Why join Mines Saint-Étienne?

We support each of our employees on the path to excellence, with the conviction that together, we can have a lasting and significant impact on our world.

Joining Mines Saint-Étienne offers the opportunity to find:

• A stimulating environment: cutting-edge experimental resources, a strong international network (T.I.M.E., EULIST), and human-sized campuses with an urban environment

• Real impact: contract research projects amounting to €11 million/year, primarily with industrial partners, a science popularization center, La Rotonde, which has been committed to science mediation for 25 years with over 50,000 visitors/year

• Integration support: independently of participation in our research projects, the Institut Henri Fayol guarantees financial resources for you to present your work at 1 international conference and a trainee for support.

• Incomparable quality of life: 49 days of leave and RTT, partial remote work, 75% coverage of public transport costs, financial support for carpooling and cycling, and a social barometer where 83% of employees praise the quality of work life.

Let's build a more sustainable future, through science, engineering, and meaningful projects.

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