Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science - 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 the challenges of tomorrow.

Ranked among the best engineering schools in France and recognized worldwide, our school, a member of the Institut Mines-Télécom, trains the talents of tomorrow while actively contributing to addressing major industrial, digital, and environmental challenges. With us, you join a community of 500 employees, 2500 students, and participate in an ambitious project: to combine 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 affiliate schools, it is the leading public institute dedicated to engineers and managers. Together, we imagine and build a sustainable future by training the actors who will shape the transitions of tomorrow.

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

Designed as true innovation hubs, our five Training and Research Centers align their expertise around major industrial, environmental, societal, and technological challenges.

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

When technology meets medicine, it gives… the Health Engineering Center (CIS)!

From innovative medical devices (biomechanics, biomaterials, nanoparticles) to digital twins of patients and hospitals, the CIS develops tailor-made solutions to meet current health challenges.

🧠 Modeling, simulation, collective intelligence: our teacher-researchers work hand in hand with doctors, industrialists, and institutions.

💙 A single ambition: to improve care and people's lives through science.

🎯 What we expect from you

As a postdoctoral researcher, you are at the core of the research and innovation missions of the Health Engineering Center. You will join the i4S team to develop the scientific foundations of a new generation of population-level digital twins (PDTs) in healthcare, in close connection with the company Dali.

The Health Engineering Center conducts research at the interface of engineering, mathematics, computer science, and health. Its work combines modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, and data science to address clinical, organizational, and population-level issues in collaboration with academic, hospital, and industrial stakeholders.

Dali (Decision Aid · Live Innovation) is an innovative consulting firm specializing in modeling, simulation, and artificial intelligence applied to the healthcare system. Its ambition is to transform the care system through cutting-edge, data-driven engineering: creation of digital twins, predictive modeling, patient pathway optimization, hospital service modeling, and improvement of healthcare organization performance. Dali was co-founded in early 2025 by Martin PRODEL (PhD, 12 years of experience in health data, ex-Heva) and Vincent AUGUSTO (PhD, HDR, Professor, 20 years of experience in health engineering and research, Mines Saint-Étienne).

Strategic Objective: Prepare the scientific building blocks for PDTs within 3 to 5 years, beyond the initial industrial demonstrators already underway.

The postdoctoral position should address challenges in dynamic cohort modeling, virtual patient generation, transition learning, and counterfactual scenario simulation.

Your main responsibilities:

• You will design and formalize mathematical and stochastic models of patient trajectories: Markov chains, multi-state models, state-space models, Markov decision processes, Monte Carlo simulation, and hybrid approaches.

• You will develop PDT prototypes in Python capable of learning their parameters from real data, generating virtual trajectories, and testing therapeutic or care management scenarios.

• You will propose methods for calibration, estimation, optimization, uncertainty quantification, and model validation; you will compare approaches on use cases derived from cohorts, registries, or real-world data.

• You will contribute to the scientific valorization of the work (publications, conferences, software), to the formalization of transferable components for DALI, and you will report on the progress to the project's scientific manager.

Your ability to transition from a scientific problem to a formal model and then to a robust implementation will be essential. The position requires a strong interest in applied mathematics, algorithms, scientific programming, and interdisciplinary research.

🔍 What we are looking for

You must hold a:

• PhD (Bac + 8) in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Control Engineering, Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Quantitative Data Science, or a related field.

Scientific Profile Sought:

• Solid background in probability, statistics, stochastic processes, optimization, modeling and simulation, and/or dynamical systems.

• Aptitude for the healthcare domain.

Expected Skills:

• Advanced proficiency in scientific Python (NumPy, pandas, SciPy, scikit-learn, or equivalents) and good software development practices, version control, and reproducibility.

• Significant experience with at least one family of dynamic models: Markov / MDP, multi-state models, Monte Carlo, differential equations, state-space models, or agent-based / discrete-event simulation.

• Ability to articulate mathematical models and parameter estimation, calibration, sensitivity analysis, validation, uncertainty quantification.

• Proficiency in written and oral scientific English (B2 level minimum, C1 appreciated); ability to write articles and present work in an international context.

Your Additional Assets:

• Experience with longitudinal data, health data, cohorts, clinical trials, or real-world data.

• Knowledge of a simulation environment (AnyLogic, SimPy, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent) and/or a compiled language (C++, Java).

• Experience publishing in journals or conferences in modeling, simulation, artificial intelligence, operations research, or digital health.

🌍 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: state-of-the-art experimental resources, a strong international network (T.I.M.E., EULIST), and human-sized campuses with an urban environment.

· Real impact: contractual research projects amounting to €11 million/year, mostly with industrial partners, a scientific culture center, La Rotonde, which has been engaged in science communication for 25 years with over 50,000 visitors/year.

· Incomparable quality of life: 49 days of leave and RTT (reduciton du temps de travail), 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.

📩 Apply now!

Application deadline: 10/15/2026

🔗 Application files (CV, cover letter, letter of recommendation if applicable, ID card) should be submitted on the RECRUITEE platform

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/post-doctorante-ou-post-doctorant-en-informatique-cdd-12-mois

As part of its Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion policy, the École des Mines de Saint Etienne is an employer committed to fair treatment of all applications.

 Additional Information

·  Desired start date: 01/01/2027

·  Salary set according to the candidate's profile, based on the rules defined by the Institut Mines Télécom's management framework.

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

·   Contractual position

·   A permanent position may be opened in the medium term.

·   Any application may be subject to an administrative investigation.

·   For internal use of Institut Mines Télécom:

Ø  Category II – Profession P – Postdoctoral Researcher according to the Management Framework.

Candidates selected after review of their application file will be interviewed on 10/28/2026 in Saint-Étienne.

📞 Contacts

·  Regarding the job content:
Vincent AUGUSTO – Professor, Director of CIS
Email:
Phone: +33 (0)4 77 42 66 26

· Regarding administrative/HR aspects:

Milica PETKOVIC– HR Manager

Email:   
Phone: + 33 (0)4 77 42 02 08 

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