Research assistant for academic research consulting in the field of scientific machine learning

Your Job:

You will support IAS-9`s data science and machine learning activities, working in a multidisciplinary team of enthusiastic data scientists, software developers, and domain scientists. Your responsibilities will be:

• Participate in scientific projects from a variety of scientific and engineering research areas with questions in AI, machine learning, and data mining
  
• Project-based interaction with data-savvy domain scientists
  
• Consult via a project-based voucher system, a system for the mediation and support of scientific research tandems and a helpdesk for more general questions and problems in the context of ML & AI
  
• Possibility to conduct your own research in the field of machine learning and AI

Your Profile:

• Completed university degree (master`s degree or equivalent) and a doctorate in data science, computer science, mathematics, engineering or equivalent
  
• Extensive research and practical experience in data analytics, data mining, machine learning, and deep learning (demonstrated by, e.g., the dissertation, publications in peer-reviewed journals or conferences, or open source projects)
  
• Very good practical programming skills (e.g., Python, Java, Julia, R, C/C++) and related libraries as well as solid experience in HPC/ GPU environments and open source software development (demonstrated by, e.g., the dissertation, publications in peer-reviewed journals or open source projects)
  
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to present complex issues in a didactic way (demonstrated by, e.g., teaching experience or supervising student work)
  
• Very good verbal and written communication skills in English
  
• Willingness to regular business trips within the Rhine-Ruhr area

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

• Secure employment in a dynamic, international and multidisciplinary environment of scientists from different domains and software developers in the field of research data management
  
• A creative working environment in a leading research institution, located on an attractive research campus of TZA Aachen https://go.fzj.de/TZA
  
• We offer you an exciting role that deals with some of the great challenges of science - our goal is to make a difference together
  
• Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
  
• Extensive company health management
  
• Ideal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly corporate policy
  
• Flexible working hours, the option of slightly reduced working hours, and 30 days of annual leave
  
• The possibility of (location-) flexible working, e.g. home office for 2 days per week
  

In addition to exciting tasks and a collaborative working atmosphere at Jülich, we have a lot more to offer: https://go.fzj.de/benefits

Place of employment: Jülich/Aachen

The position is initially limited to 2 years with the possibility of a longer-term perspective. Remuneration and social benefits are in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service (TvöD-Bund).

We are looking forward to your application including a motivation letter and a CV, as well as certificates and transcripts of your degrees and other relevant documentation. Relevant experience should be demonstrated (e.g. by linking to own open source projects in Github/Gitlab, scientific publications, etc.) and be briefly highlighted in the letter of motivation. We are looking to fill this position as soon as possible – the job advertisement will be taken offline once the position is filled.

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, e.g. in terms of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation / identity, and social, ethnic and religious origin. A diverse and inclusive working environment with equal opportunities in which everyone can realize their potential is important to us.