Recruitment campaign for researchers 2025

Researchers "normal class" (CRCN)

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Deadline to apply: February 10, 2025 midnight, Paris timeFebruary 10, 2025 midnight, Paris time

Distribution of posts

The 18  Researchers "normal class" positions (CRCN)  are distributed throughout the territory. Find the details of the profiles sought for each Inria research centre:

INRIA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX

- Competition n° 1 BSO-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Center at the University of Bordeaux, in line with its site policy, wishes to give priority to recruiting in the fields of digital health, in conjunction with the VBHI IHU, and digital and parallel composability for HPC, which particularly concerns the CONCACE project-team. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project-teams.

Assignment: Inria Center at the University of Bordeaux.

• Apply CRCN Inria Centre at the University of Bordeaux

INRIA CENTRE AT GRENOBLE ALPES UNIVERSITY

- Competition n° 2 GRA-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Center at Grenoble Alpes University, in line with its site policy, would like to give priority to recruiting in the following areas, with the aim of creating new project-teams: models and tools for 3D design, and AI methods for remote sensing. The Center is also looking to strengthen the fields of operating systems and hardware-software interfaces, in particular in the recently created KRAKOS project-team and the MADMAX project-team currently under appraisal. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the Center's project teams.

Assignment: Inria Center at Grenoble Alpes University.

• Apply CRCN Inria Centre at Grenoble Alpes University

INRIA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LILLE

- Competition n° 3 LNE-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Center at the University of Lille, in line with its site policy, wishes to recruit as a priority in the fields of digital health, particularly in data science, and the environmental impacts of digital technology, particularly in software engineering and networks, especially in support of the creation of new teams in these two areas. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project teams.

Assignment: Inria Center at the University of Lille.

• Apply CRCN Inria Centre at the University of Lille

INRIA CENTRE OF LYON

- Competition n° 4 LYS-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Lyon Center, in line with its site policy, wishes to recruit in priority in the fields of life modeling, particularly in the ERABLE project-team, and digital humanities. The Center is also looking to develop its activities in the field of IT security (deployment and orchestration). In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the Center's project-teams.

Assignment: Inria Lyon Centre.

• Apply CRCN Inria centre of Lyon

INRIA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE

- Competition n° 5 NGE-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Center at the University of Lorraine (including the Inria branch at the University of Strasbourg), in line with its site policy, wishes to give priority to the creation of new project-teams, in particular AGILE on the theme of networks and DELTA on the theme of AI for protein modeling. Other priority areas are systems security, digital health and engineering for industry, notably in the RESIST and MIMESIS project-teams, and the HUCEBOT, LORELEY and NECTARINE teams currently being set up. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project-teams.

Assignment: Inria Centre at the University of Lorraine

• Apply CRCN Inria Centre at the University of Lorraine

INRIA CENTRE OF PARIS 

- Competition n° 6 PRO-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Paris Center, in line with its site policy, wishes to recruit in priority in subjects at the interface of digital technology and life or environmental sciences, in particular in the joint EPIMETHEE and INBIO project-teams, or in themes likely to reinforce ongoing projects in these fields. The Center is also looking to strengthen its activities in operating systems and the hardware-software interface, particularly in the WHISPER and AIO project-teams. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project-teams.

Assignment: Inria Paris Centre.

• Apply CRCN Inria Centre of Paris

INRIA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF RENNES

- Competition n° 7 RBA-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Center at the University of Rennes, in line with its site policy, is looking to recruit in priority in the following areas: tumor ablation modeling; AI security, traceability and auditing; network economics; machine learning with temporal constraints; imaging for cell biology. This particularly concerns the ARTISHAU, ERMINE and SAIRPICO project-teams, as well as the teams currently being set up (MALT and AIMPACT). In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project-teams.

• Apply CRCN Inria centre at the University of Rennes

IA CENTRE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COTE D'AZUR

- Competition n° 8 SAM-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

The Inria Côte d'Azur Center (including the Inria branch at the University of Montpellier), in line with its site policy, wishes to recruit in priority in the fields of data science and geometry, digital health, and system and personal security, in particular in the ACENTAURI, PREMEDICAL, SPLITS, STAMP and TITANE project-teams. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project teams.

Assignment: Inria Centre of the University Cote d'Azur.

• Apply CRCN Inria centre at the University of Cote d'Azur

INRIA CENTRE OF SACLAY

- Competition n° 9 SIF-CRCN-2025: 2 positions

In line with its site policy, the Inria Centre at Saclay is looking to recruit as a priority in the fields of digital health, distributed systems and information systems security. This particularly concerns the BENAGIL, COMETE, MERGE, MUSCA, OPIS, PETSCRAFT and SYMBIOTIX project teams. In addition, the recruitment campaign is open to all the research themes of the center's project-teams.

Assignment: Inria Centre in Saclay.

• Apply CRCN Inria centre of Saclay

The 2025 campaign will open in the first half of the year, and Inria will be offering 2 positions as part of it.

Inria is recruiting people with disabilities on a contractual basis. This recruitment procedure, provided for by regulations, aims to encourage the recruitment of candidates with disabilities on the basis of a one-year contract, renewable once. At the end of their contract and after the opinion of a professional panel, successful candidates may be appointed to permanent positions.

• Campaign opens and applications collected: date displayed later
• Deadline for receipt of opinions and letters of recommendation: date displayed later
  • Please let them know that you wish to apply so that they can prepare their letter in advance, as they will then only have a few days to download it via a link which will be attached to the application email. It will be sent after the eligibility of the applications.
• Pre-selection and auditions: dates displayed later
• Start date: 1st October 2025
• Create your personal candidate area and Apply (via the SELECT tool - no other application channel will be accepted):
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  • For requests for special arrangements for tests, submit the supporting document(s) in "Attachments".
• The hearings will be take place on:
  • 1/ either at our headquarters (Domaine de Voluceau - Rocquencourt - BP 105 - 78153 Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt Cedex) (Yvelines department):
    • How to get there 
    • The Rocquencourt site is served by TRANSDEV bus routes linking the "Coeur de Bourg" (the nearest stop) or "Les 3 Fontaines" (walk down rue de la Sabretache) stops to nearby stations: 
      • 6217 : Guitel Lecoq (Saint-Nom la Bretèche) <=> Versailles Rive Droite station (line L: Paris-St Lazare, via La Défense and St-Cloud to Versailles Rive Droite or to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche),
      • 6276 : Prés de Reneuil 3 (Noisy le Roi) <=> Vaucresson station (line L: Paris-St Lazare to Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche),
      • 6205 : Versailles Bernard de Jussieu <=> Rocquencourt Coeur de Bourg (via Versailles Montreuil and Versailles Rive Droite stations - Line L Paris-St Lazare),
      • EX01 : Rue Thiers (near RER A St-Germain en Laye station) <=>  Versailles Chantiers station (It also passes through Versailles Château Rive Gauche station. Versailles Chantiers station serves lines U to La Défense, N to Paris-Montparnasse and RER C to Saint-Quentin-en Yvelines. Versailles Château RG station is the terminus and is served only by the RER C).
  • 2/ or at the Paris centre (48, rue Barrault - 75013 PARIS):
    • How to get there