STUDENT ASSISTANT (all genders) - DATA SPACE INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

Here you make a difference: You will build and run the CEADS data space demonstrator: a permanently running reference environment in which several participants actually exchange data with each other. The demonstrator is how we show that the architecture works — to project partners, to the Commission, and to ourselves.

What comes up in practice changes as the environment grows. Typical tasks:

• Setting up, operating and automating the deployment so that partners can rebuild it without our help
• Configuring and extending the connectors for new exchange scenarios
• Sample data and small applications that act as data providers and consumers against the environment
• Documentation that others can follow, so that procedures stay repeatable
• Debugging a distributed system in which several components interact

Here is how you contribute:

• Studies in computer science or a related field, bachelor's from the 3rd semester onwards, or master's
• Confident with Java and Gradle or Maven
• Practical experience with Git, containers and the command line
• You have got something running on your own before — a personal project, an internship, a non-trivial course project
• Willingness to work your way into an unfamiliar, large open-source codebase
• Good English (project language, documentation). German is useful but not required
• Willingness and ability to work on-site at our institute in Kaiserslautern on a regular basis; remote is possible for part of the role

Nice to have:

• Experience with REST APIs, CI pipelines or infrastructure automation
• Kubernetes or Helm
• Interest in distributed systems, identity and authorisation concepts
• Prior contact with data spaces, Gaia-X, EDC or related topics — not required, we will get you up to speed

What we have in store for you:

• Work on a European data infrastructure that is meant to run productively beyond the end of the project
• Current open standards and technologies with relevance well beyond the agricultural domain
• Ownership of a clearly defined area rather than assisting work
• Close supervision and regular technical feedback
• The option of a thesis — both bachelor's and master's theses are possible. Suitable topics emerge from the project work and are shaped together.
• Flexible hours, and we work around exam periods
• Paid at the standard student assistant rates, graded by degree held