Research Engineer in historical and cultural source analysis - UFR SHA (24498) (M/F)

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The engineer will be responsible for the CESCM photo library. He/she will ensure the scientific, technical, and digital management of the photo library, as well as the scientific and operational coordination of the multimedia platform. Main activities:

• Transmit knowledge and skills (training actions, publications, technical notes, hosting students...)
• Locate textual, graphic, iconographic, and sound (oral, musical) sources, transmitted on any type of medium, inventory and catalog them. Identify, describe, expertize, and contextualize them
• Design paper or digital tools for the processing, critical analysis, and dissemination of these sources (indexes, directories, frameworks, catalogs, corpora, thesauri...) ; maintain them
• Coordinate the human, technical, and financial resources necessary for the realization of the research project
• Participate in the setup, coordination, and monitoring of funded projects

• Produce and supervise critical editions of sources
• Exploit these sources in their field of expertise to produce knowledge. Organize national or international scientific events; contribute to them. Organize and ensure the dissemination of sources and knowledge to the national and international scientific community through personal and collective publications

SEARCHED PROFILE:

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of a disciplinary or interdisciplinary field
• National and international documentary standards for digital humanities, FAIR data, and digital cultural heritage - conservation and indexing standards

• Intellectual property law
• Methods for prospecting and inventorying historical and cultural sources
• English language
• B2 to C1 (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Skills:

• Ability to identify forms
• Ability to formalize needs and constraints for the development of data processing tools
• Digitization and heritage valorization projects

• Ability to control the development of data processing tools
• Digitization projects, heritage databases

• Use software specific to the activity
• GIS tools, OCR, TEI, AI, digital mediation

Degree: BAC +5 Desired field of study: Medieval art history or medieval history (with a track in Art History or Heritage), Digital Humanities and the Middle Ages. Experience: Beginner accepted (experience of less than 2 years) Additional information:

• Category: A (Research Engineer)
• Workload: 100%
• Position to be filled on a CDD from 01/10/2026 to 31/08/2027
• Gross monthly remuneration: according to ITRF staff index scales and experience + gross monthly bonus of €250
• Application deadline: 21/09/2026