Research Associate (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant (Computer Scientist)

Research Associate (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant

With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH, and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations are engaged at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) to master the great societal challenges of our time.

The Central Department Information Services and Computing is the service, competence, and coordination center for the entire IT infrastructure of the HZDR.

To strengthen the Artificial Intelligence group, we are looking for you as a Research Associate (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant.

Your tasks

• Design, test, training, evaluation/benchmarking, and use of image processing models and models on tabular data
• Presentation and communication of results at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals
• Developing explainability methods for AI predictions

What distinguishes you

• Completed university degree (Bachelor/Master/Diplom) in the field of Computer Science, in scientific disciplines, or comparable fields
• Experience and knowledge - in supervised learning image processing architectures (Unet, StarDist, Cellpose, CPN, nnUnet, SAM, Dino, Yolo)
• in benchmarking ML systems and evaluation metrics
• in Machine Learning of tables (scikit-learn, xgboost)
• in reproducible programming and reproducible data science
• in FAIR data management
• in the use of HPC systems
• with explainability methods for computer vision models
• Self-organized, creative way of working as well as a communicative, tolerant, and resilient personality with pronounced curiosity
• Fluent English skills

What we offer you

• An exciting working environment on an attractive research campus
• High scientific networking and scientific excellence
• Remuneration and social benefits according to the collective agreement for the public service (TVöD-Bund) - including 30 days of vacation per year, company pension scheme (VBL)
• Subject to meeting personal requirements, a classification up to EG 13 TVöD-Bund is possible
• We support the compatibility of private life and work with the possibility of part-time employment and mobile working as well as flexible working hours
• A variety of offers from occupational health management
• Employee discounts with well-known providers via the Corporate Benefits platform
• An employer subsidy for the Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket

We look forward to receiving your application documents (cover letter, CV, certificates, etc.), which you please submit exclusively via our online application portal.