kandidatu France

Research engineer or postdoctoral researcher

Université Côte d'Azur · State civil service

En français : Ingénieur·e de recherche ou post-doctorant·e

This job in plain words

This job supports the GRIFS research project on geopolitical risks, innovation and firm strategy. It is based in Sophia Antipolis, in the GREDEG research unit, with links to the Nice city centre campus.

Open to non-civil servants

Can you apply?

Open only to contract agents. Civil servants are not concerned by this offer.

Category
Category A (executive)
Diploma
Ph.D. · PhD or equivalent degree
Contract
Contract agent, fixed-term contract of 1 year

The profile they want:

  • Experience in econometric analysis
  • Expertise in international trade and economic policy
  • Experience in formal or analytical modelling
  • Experience in text analysis and natural language processing
  • Experience with patent data and firm-level data
  • Good organisation, communication and writing skills

What you would do

  • Support the GRIFS research project
  • Build a dataset linking French company data and patent data
  • Measure how exposed inventions are to traded products
  • Analyse text data using quantitative methods
  • Assess the effect of trade shocks and geopolitical tensions

How to apply

Send a single PDF file by email to the two project leads, at the address given in the offer. Send your file as soon as possible.

Documents to send:

  • A cover letter
  • A CV with a list of publications, including working papers

Good to know:

  • The job is vacant from 21/10/2026 and must start by December 2026 at the latest.
  • The offer text says the job lasts 3 years, but the contract listed is a 1-year fixed-term contract.
  • The offer gives 05/11/2026 as the date to send your file, but the official deadline is 20/11/2026.
  • Applications are reviewed as they arrive.

We wrote this summary automatically from the official offer. Only the offer published on Choisir le Service Public counts: read it before you apply. Source: Choisir le Service Public (DGAFP), Etalab 2.0 licence.

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