Technical Manager (On-site, Denmark)

Job summary

The role involves managing and developing the technical infrastructure for the Observatory for Technological Questions in Society, focusing on mapping public debates about technology in Denmark. The position requires collaboration with researchers to build a technical platform and support continuous controversy mapping as a research agenda.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a technical manager in computational social science or digital methods labs.
• Proven ability to support interdisciplinary research collaborations, particularly with a Science and Technology Studies (STS) component.

Responsibilities

• Organize and lead technical operations within the observatory.
• Coordinate with the central communications department on strategic development projects.
• Develop and maintain technical infrastructure for ongoing analysis and visualization of societal debates regarding technology.

Skills

• Expertise in large language models and natural language processing.
• Proficiency in visualizing unstructured data (text) and exploratory data visualization.
• Experience in open-source tool development.

Education

• Relevant academic qualifications in a related field are expected.

Tools

• Familiarity with tools and technologies used in computational social science and digital methods.