Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) | Germany | 04xxx Leipzig | Permanent position | Part time - flexible / Full time / Home office | Published since: 23.08.2026 on stepstone.de
Research Assistant Unit G4 (Metrology of Gravity) (m/f/d)
We are the Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG). We ensure that your Navi always finds the right way and provide Germany with geodata. Our products are the problem solvers for the environment, climate, security and infrastructure and support, among other things, the technical aid or the federal police in managing their tasks. Start your career at the Federal Office for Cartography and Geodesy! For our team in the Unit G4 (Metrologie der Schwere), we are looking at the location Leipzig at the earliest possible time and indefinitely one/n Senior Consultant (m/w/d)
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Conception and construction of a German-wide network of superconducting gravimeters for determining changes in terrestrial water storage in cooperation with partner institutions Modeling the gravity effect of spatially discrete mass distributions Combined analysis of terrestrial severity series, global severity-field variations from GRACE/GRACE-FO and hydrological models taking into account different spatial and temporal scales Optimization of hydrologic models and development of a product for quantifying terrestrial water storage changes
Completed university studies (uni/master) of geodetic, geophysics, physics or a comparable discipline Very good knowledge of physical geodesy Knowledge and experience in time series and main components analysis Very good knowledge in a higher programming language (e.g. Python) Knowledge and experience in hydrological modelling are advantageous What is important to us: Good oral and written expressiveness in the German language (at least B2 level up) and good English skills Good organisational skills and pleasure in team work Individual initiative, independent and solution-oriented mode of work
A grouping into the remuneration group (EC) 13 TVöD (Bund) in the presence of the corresponding qualifications, recognition of relevant professional experience in the level allocation. The corresponding fee can be taken from the pay table TVöD Bund. Special collective payment, occupational pensions and benefits Mobile work within the scope of services up to 80% Flexible working time without core working hours and up to 24 days a year 31 days of rest (from 2027) and the possibility to take leave until the end of the following year; additional working days on 24.12. and 31.12. Individual parttime employment Comprehensive training and a wide range of continuing and continuing training for personal and professional qualifications Feel-fit offers (including health courses, seat-steh dynamics at office workstation, free vaccinations) Support in the search for childcare facilities or emergency care for dependent persons Employer grant (23.28 € monthly) to GermanyJobTicket Possibility of later beaming Support for housing search and access to separate housing quota (possibly also transfer costs)
Location
 | Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (BKG) | |
| 04105 Leipzig | ||
| Germany |
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