💼 Full-Time Position

Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer (OPTIMA)

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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
📍 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Posted
June 05, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Are you a computational social scientist with a knack for software development? Do you believe that open science should be a seamless part of a researcher's workflow rather than a burdensome afterthought?

Your function

At the VU FSW Societal Analytics Lab, we are looking for a Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer to join our team to work on the development of OPTIMA: the Observatory for Political Texts, Images, and Multimedia.

Researchers working with digital traces are at a crossroads. While the digital age offers unprecedented access to multimodal data, copyright restrictions and privacy concerns often make that data impossible to share. OPTIMA is a 2-year project funded to solve this. Building on the software prototypes AmCAT and