Research Assistant - CS, Law & Data Science

Immigration Policy Lab; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 34.000 - 48.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

English-speaking environment

Zusammenfassung

ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics invites student researchers to contribute to interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of data science, AI, law and economics. You will work on large-scale web content, NLP/LLM pipelines, and computer vision tasks, developing robust data pipelines and experimental tools.

You will collaborate with legal and economics scholars, bring strong coding practices, and help produce reproducible results while learning in a supportive academic environment in

Qualifikationen

• Registered student at a university in Zurich or nearby.
• Experience with Python, web scraping, and SQL. NLP, LLM pipelines, LLM APIs, and/or Docker is a plus.
• Experience with Python, computer vision, image processing, or ML. PyTorch, image embeddings, vision-language models, OpenCV, or vector similarity search are a plus.
• Linux and Git are essential; knowledge of web interfaces and data visualization is a plus.
• Able to commit 10–15 hours per week during the semester.
• Interest in interdisciplinary research with legal and economics scholars.
• Strong problem-solving, clean code, independence, and data quality focus.

Aufgaben

• Web Data, NLP & LLM Pipelines: scraping and maintaining reproducible data pipelines.
• Interacting with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, OpenRouter).
• Storing, querying, cleaning, and validating data with SQL/PostgreSQL.
• Applying NLP, statistical methods, and LLM-based approaches to textual data.
• Deploying and maintaining research code on Linux virtual machines.
• Computer Vision & Visual Data Analysis: processing large image collections and metadata.
• Using image embeddings, similarity search, clustering, and multimodal models.
• Identifying identical or related images across large datasets.
• Evaluating computational methods and visualizing results.

Kenntnisse

Python

Web scraping

SQL

Docker

NLP

LLM pipelines

PyTorch

OpenCV

Linux

Git

Image processing

Vector similarity search

Data visualization

Tools

Docker

Linux

PostgreSQL

Git

Jobbeschreibung

ETH Zurich's Center for Law & Economics invites student researchers to contribute to interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of data science, AI, law and economics. You will work on large-scale web content, NLP/LLM pipelines, and computer vision tasks, developing robust data pipelines and experimental tools.

You will collaborate with legal and economics scholars, bring strong coding practices, and help produce reproducible results while learning in a supportive academic environment in