Starting Research Positions (original) (raw)
Changed on 05/03/2025
Inria offers Starting Research Positions for young researchers on employment contracts of up to three years.
Application conditions
- There is no restriction on the age or nationality of applicants.
- In line with its diversity policy, all Inria posts are accessible to disabled employees (link to pdf Disability sheet)
- Hold a French or foreign PhD or equivalent degree;
- Have between two and eight years' experience in research after completing their thesis;
- Before writing up their research programme, applicants are strong advised to contact the head(s) of the project team(s) to which they are applying.
How to apply?
No recruitment campaign is planned for 2025.
To apply for a Starting Research Position, you must first create your applicant page.
Recruitment procedure
- Admissibility: First Inria checks that each applicant meets the eligibility criteria.
NB: when an application is submitted, an acknowledgment of receipt is issued, which cannot under any circumstances be considered as an indication that the application has been judged admissible. - Selection based on the application: an admissibility committee considers the applications and draws up a list of those to be interviewed.
- Applicant interviews: an admission committee interviews the applicants selected and submits a ranked list of suitable applicants to the Inria Chief Executive Officer.
- Final selection: after the interviews, the Inria Chief Executive Officer makes the final decision on the list of successful applicants.
Documents
Consult the documents concerning the recruitment campaign (some will be published as soon as the campaign is launched):
In May 2019, the European Union awarded Inria the "HR Excellence in Research" label, underlining the relevance of its strategy and the associated HRS4R action plan.