mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Organisation/Company mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Department Department of Music Acoustics – Wiener Klangstil (IWK) Research Field Arts » Other Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Master Positions Application Deadline 28 Oct 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Brussels) Country Austria Type of Contract Other Type of Contract Extra Information 24 months (with possible extension by another 12 months) Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 30 Offer Starting Date 15 Nov 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The successful candidate is responsible for conducting digital music research at IWK. In the context of “Let’s Encode!”, the candidate will engage in digital musicology activities employing the project’s citizen-science infrastructure in the creation of a high-quality corpus of music encodings. The creation of this corpus will serve in the validation and iterative improvement of the editing and validation environment developed within the project. At the same time, it will serve as the basis of musicological explorations of this newly-available repertoire.

In the context of “Executable Workflows for Digital Music Research”, the candidate will assist in the modularisation and generalisation of workflow components in existing software developed at IWK and lead the evaluation of the new modules in collaboration with project partners.





The successful candidate is expected to work collaboratively with project teams and interested parties (participant groups) within both project environments. A deep familiarity with our key audiences – music technologists, scholars, performers, and enthusiasts – and a background in musicology are essential for this task.

Salary : According to the Austrian collective labour agreement, the monthly gross pay for doctoral candidates is €2,832.10 (14 times), including health care and social benefits.

Specific Requirements

Experience with Web technologies (e.g., HTML, RESTful APIs), semantic Web technologies (e.g., RDF, JSON-LD), distributed data storage and processing (e.g., using Git Hub Actions or Solid PODs), and professional competence in German would each be highly beneficial.

Languages GERMAN Level Excellent

Languages ENGLISH Level Excellent

The mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is committed to the equal treatment of all qualified applicants regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, world-view, age, or disability. The University is particularly interested in increasing the percentage of women working in the artistic, scientific and general university personnel ranks. It therefore expressly encourages qualified women to apply. It should be specifically mentioned, however, that applicants who are invited to interview will not receive remuneration from the university for incurred travel and hotel expenses (interviews via teleconference can be accommodated).

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Country Austria City Vienna Postal Code 1030 Street Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 Geofield

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