Jobs

Hours of work: 40 hours per week (full time), with flexible schedule
Department: CERC / Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Location of work: 2155 Guy St., Montreal, QC H3H 2L9

Scope

The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Communities and Cities is seeking an outstanding and motivated Junior Software Developer to help with the implementation of the Insel4Cities platform. Reporting to Dr. Ursula Eicker (CERC) and functionally to Guillermo Morote (Senior Software Engineer), the incumbent will play a key role in the CERC's urban platform development, by contributing to the development of a simulation software and a city digital twin.

Responsibilities

• Software development for a city digital twin.
• Platform API development.
• Writing and maintaining unit tests.
• Backend infrastructure.
• Bug fixing and documenting.
• IT support.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a pertinent field and +1 year related work experience.
• Good spoken and written English (Level 4) to communicate effectively with the team.
• Data management (SQL).
• Python, C++, C#, PHP, Java and JavaScript knowledge is a plus.
• High motivation and teamwork mindset.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Union/Association

CARE

Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter and portfolio to cerc@concordia.ca

IMPORTANT: The language and programming skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.

Concordia University is strongly committed to employment equity within its community, and to recruiting a diverse faculty and staff. The University encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, 2SLGBTQI+ persons, and persons with disabilities; candidates are invited to self-identify in their applications.

Research program title
Explainable AI approaches for smart buildings applications

Reference number
9001

Supervisors
Nizar Bouguila and Ursula Eicker

Program description
Recently, the progress in Internet of Things platforms has allowed the collection of large amounts of sensing data. Using this large-scale sensing data in real-world applications is a challenging problem. Motivated by applications related to smart buildings, the goal of this research program is to develop explainable AI techniques for challenging tasks using sensor data. Examples of tasks include but not limited to: estimating and predicting the approximate number of people in a smart building, recognizing the occupants’ activities, predicting future activity occurrence time, energy consumption forecasting, etc.

Academic qualifications required
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Buildings or related fields with experience in machine learning, data mining.

Eligibility requirements

• Applicants must not currently hold a postdoctoral appointment at Concordia
• Priority will be given to postdoctoral fellows who have obtained their PhD from another university although in exceptional cases Concordia graduates may be considered
  Applicants must adhere to the postdoctoral fellow eligibility criteria outlined in
• Concordia University’s Postdoctoral Policy.

Submission process

• All documents must be submitted to Niyusha Samadi at Horizon.Postdocs@concordia.ca
• Please include the reference number with your application

Application checklist

• One to three (1-3) page research statement demonstrating fit with the program described above
• Current curriculum vitae demonstrating research excellence and a capacity for leadership in the domain (maximum 5 pages)
• Two letters of reference from academic supervisors or current employers to be sent via e-mail directly to Niyusha Samadi

Value
The prestigious two-year Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowships are valued at $50,000 per year plus benefits and full access to Concordia’s services, including GradProSkills.

We are looking for students (undergraduate or graduate) with strong software engineering, computer science or system engineering skills for a range of topics:

• data and simulation result visualization for urban platform
• IoT and urban sensor data communication and analysis
• coding support for urban modeling and data analytics platform

Scope

The Manager of Built Environment Projects is responsible for the administration, project management, professional content, and strategic development of the Built Environment Projects team. See the job description details.

Start date: September 16th, 2024

End date: September 31st, 2025, with the possibility of an extension

Hours of work: 40 hours per week (full time), with a flexible schedule, according to hybrid work guidelines

Location of work: 2155 Guy St., Montreal, QC H3H 2L9

Scope

The Project Manager (Research Assistant) is responsible for the overarching tasks of selected projects. He/she is responsible for overseeing the team's operations and administrative functions and is particularly responsible to ensure on-time delivery, the quality of results and to support partnership development. In this role, he/she supports the team leads of the research teams, to facilitate regular meetings and workshops and to foster the development of projects. 

Responsibilities

• Support projects through analyzing and documenting multi-residential building projects, including innovative measures, additional cost of innovative measures, energy performance and benchmarking.

• Develop detailed project plans to track the progress of projects

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

• Coordinate and follow up on tasks of different national and international projects 

• Organize workshops related to the projects to establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and partners 

• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation

• Coordinate joint publications with project partners 

• Coordinate and create progress reports

• Support the creation of research proposals and public tender documents

Requirements

• Master’s Degree in a relevant professional field related to the decarbonization of buildings and neighborhoods.

• Decision-making skills, and the ability to establish and respond to priorities.

• Superior interpersonal skills.

• Ability to multi-task and work on a variety of projects concurrently.

• Academic background in building engineering and environmental studies.

• Experience with initiating and managing projects in the fields of decarbonization of the built environment.

• Experience in multi-project and multi-stakeholder coordination.

• Very good knowledge (Level 5) of spoken and written English to express ideas effectively and communicate clearly in complex situations. 

• Good knowledge (Level 4) of spoken and written French.

• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Miro and other related software packages related to project management tasks.

Salary

$ 34 per hour

Benefits

As this contract falls under the CARE union, benefits will be offered according to the CARE union agreement.

Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter to ursula.eicker@concordia.ca

IMPORTANT: The language and computer skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.

Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Start date: January 1st, 2025

End date: December 31st, 2025, with the possibility of an extension

Hours of work: 35 hours per week (full time), with a flexible schedule, according to hybrid work guidelines

Location of work: 2155 Guy St., Montreal, QC H3H 2L9

Scope

The Data Manager (Research Assistant) is responsible for the overarching tasks of data management in the NGCI group. They are responsible for overseeing the team's data life cycle and preparing all the data the team is receiving from the different sources. In this role, they support the research team leads by facilitating regular meetings and workshops, fostering project development using data sources, and ensuring interoperability. Additionally, the Data Manager will ensure compliance with data protection regulations under Law 25 of Québec and establishing the necessary methodologies to do so.

Responsibilities

• Develop a full data life cycle plan for the NGCI.
• Conduct research on ontologies and adapt them to meet project needs, implementing them across all data sources in Montréal.
• Collaborate with the middleware team from the PTIDEJ group of Concordia.
• Develop neural networks on top of the established knowledge graph based on project functionality. 
• Develop detailed project plans to monitor progress. 
• Create and maintain comprehensive database documentation.
• Coordinate and monitor tasks for various national and international projects regarding data management and ontologies. 
• Organize workshops related to data to establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders and partners. 
• Create and maintain comprehensive data documentation (CKAN). 
• Coordinate joint publications with project partners. 
• Support the creation of research proposals and public tender documents. 

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in a relevant professional field related to the decarbonization of buildings and neighborhoods.

• Decision-making skills, and the ability to establish and respond to priorities.

• Superior interpersonal skills.

• Ability to multi-task and work on a variety of projects concurrently.

• Academic background in data management and AI.

• Hands-on experience in developing neural networks and understanding data pipeline requirements. 

• Experience with initiating and managing projects in data management.

• Experience in multi-project and multi-stakeholder coordination.

• Very good knowledge (Level 5) of spoken and written English to express ideas effectively and communicate clearly in complex situations. 

• Good knowledge (Level 4) of spoken and written French.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Miro and other related software packages related to project management tasks.

• Advanced programming skills in Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical Analysis, SQL, NoSQL, and Cypher.

• Knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing concepts, data integration, and ETL/ELT techniques.

• Proficiency in data pipeline creation and database management tools (time-series databases, graph databases, Apache Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes, Docker). 

Salary

$ 34 per hour

Interested applicants must submit a curriculum vitae with a cover letter to ursula.eicker@concordia.ca

IMPORTANT: The language and computer skills of short-listed candidates will be tested.

Concordia University is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from women, Aboriginal Peoples, visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.