Web Front-End Developer and Designer (Jekyll & GitHub Pages)

This position is integrated to the Service d'Expérimentation et de Développement (SED) of the Centre Inria d'Université Côte d'Azur that leads, coordinates and contributes to Inria development and experimentation activities, working with the scientists on technological actions. The engineer will be working in close collaboration with the SED engineers of Fed-BioMed software., We are looking for a motivated Web Designer / Front-End Developer to create and customize the new Fed-BioMed project website, based on an existing Jekyll template and deployed on GitHub Pages. Your work will ensure a clean, modern, and consistent identity across the website, documentation, and communication materials for the project.

Beyond technical customization, a key part of your mission will consist of writing and structuring the website's content. You will help craft clear, engaging text that conveys the software goals, value, and identity to a broad audience. Your role involves shaping the website's message through well-written content, impactful section headings, and consistent tone across pages.

Principales activités

• Select and customize a suitable Jekyll template.
• Adapt the website structure and features to our needs (main pages, news, posts, etc.).
• Write and refine website content (headlines, descriptions, project goals, explanations of features).
• Ensure that the website delivers a coherent, high-quality message to non-expert audiences.
• Create visual and interactive elements (HTML/UI components, icons, pictograms, animations).
• Contribute suggestions for the website's initial content (headlines, features, goals).
• Deliver clear documentation for non-technical users on how to update and maintain the site.
• Support visual coherence between the website and the technical documentation that requires to modify the template of the technical documentation.
• Optionally integrate a newsletter sign-up feature.
• Work with Fed-BioMed development team to deploy the website via GitHub Pages and CI.

• Experience with static website generators (Jekyll).
• Proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Experience with GitHub Pages and version control workflows.
• Ability to customize or extend existing templates.
• Strong understanding of UX/UI principles and responsive design.
• Ability to write clear, simple documentation for non-technical users.
• Good communication skills and ability to work autonomously.

Preferred

• Experience with mkdocs and mkdocs-material.
• Design skills: creation of icons, pictograms, logos, or other graphical assets.
• Knowledge of SVG animation, CSS transitions, or lightweight JavaScript animation libraries.
• Experience with branding and visual identity creation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Interest in open-source projects or scientific/technical communication.

• Subsidized meals
• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT (statutory reduction in working hours) + possibility of exceptional leave (sick children, moving home, etc.)
• Possibility of teleworking (after 6 months of employment) and flexible organization of working hours
• Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.)
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

The Inria centre at Université Côte d'Azur includes 42 research teams and 9 support services. The centre's staff (about 500 people) is made up of scientists of different nationalities, engineers, technicians and administrative staff. The teams are mainly located on the university campuses of Sophia Antipolis and Nice as well as Montpellier, in close collaboration with research and higher education laboratories and establishments (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, INRAE, INSERM ...), but also with the regiona economic players. With a presence in the fields of computational neuroscience and biology, data science and modeling, software engineering and certification, as well as collaborative robotics, the Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur is a major player in terms of scientific excellence through its results and collaborations at both European and international levels. Contexte et atouts du poste Inria is the national research institute for digital science and technology. World-class research, technological innovation and entrepreneurial risk are its DNA. With 230 project-teams, most of which are shared with major research universities, more than 3,900 researchers and engineers explore new avenues, often in an interdisciplinary manner and in collaboration with industrial partners to meet ambitious challenges. As a technological institute, Inria supports the diversity of innovation paths: from open source software publishing to the creation of technology startups (Deeptech). Fed-BioMed is an open-source federated learning framework developed for multi-centric, hospital-based medical research and applications. It focuses on security, access and interoperability with medical data, federated data pre-processing and harmonization, and lifecycle control by the hospital. It enables secure, privacy-preserving AI on decentralized data while ensuring local governance and compliance with legal constraints. Fed-BioMed creates a community of clinical, industry and academic partners fostering the adoption of collaborative learning in real-world medical applications. Fed-BioMed contributes to several European and national research projects, in partnership with universities, hospitals, research infrastructures, and industrial actors. The position sits within this dynamic research, development, and open-source ecosystem. This position contributes to Fed-BioMed, within the context of the DTRIP4H project, by improving the website's content and communication to better reach and engage potential future users across the ecosystem.