Postdoctoral Researcher: Multimodal AI Data Systems

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Winterthur; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

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Job summary

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur invites applications for a postdoctoral position focused on optimizing multimodal AI workflows across LLMs, vision models, and data analytics. Collaborating with IBM Research Europe – Zurich, you will design architectures and orchestrate tasks across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators.

Responsibilities include developing multimodal AI pipelines, optimizing relational databases and Spark-based systems, building resource management, enabling

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, Data Engineering, or related field.
• Strong background in distributed systems (Spark) and relational databases (Postgres/DuckDB) and ML.
• Solid Python programming skills.
• Interest in publishing in leading systems and AI conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE, etc).

Responsibilities

• Develop architectures that support multimodal AI pipelines.
• Investigate optimization techniques for AI pipelines across heterogeneous systems (relational databases and distributed data processing).
• Build resource management and scheduling mechanisms for CPUs/GPUs/accelerators.
• Enable efficient execution of AI workflows where multiple models interact dynamically.
• Implement prototype systems and evaluate them on realistic AI/data workloads.
• Assist in teaching (Databases and Intelligent Information Systems).

Skills

Distributed systems (Spark)

Relational databases (Postgres/DuckDB)

Machine learning

Python programming

Academic publishing (VLDB/SIGMOD/ICDE)

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / Data Engineering

Tools

Postgres

DuckDB

Spark

Job description

ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur invites applications for a postdoctoral position focused on optimizing multimodal AI workflows across LLMs, vision models, and data analytics. Collaborating with IBM Research Europe – Zurich, you will design architectures and orchestrate tasks across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators.

Responsibilities include developing multimodal AI pipelines, optimizing relational databases and Spark-based systems, building resource management, enabling