Postdoc: LLMs for AI-Enhanced Educational Support

AcademicTransfer; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 41,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

8% holiday allowance

End-of-year bonus

Commuting contribution

Job summary

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to advance Large Language Model components for educational professionals, focusing on developing, evaluating, and integrating LLM-based tools into the Presentis student information system. You will prototype prompting strategies and structured inputs while collaborating with domain experts to ensure usefulness and safety.

The role emphasizes interaction design, evaluation with educators, and dissemination of findings

Qualifications

• PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human-AI Interaction, Data Science or closely related field.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate LLM components for education-domain tasks within the OPP workflow.
• Collaborate with software developers to design API-based integration into Presentis SIS.
• Assess LLM output using a predefined OPP quality rubric with educators.
• Publish results in AI/NLP/HCI and Educational Technology venues.
• Supervise MSc students and work with project partners.

Skills

Python programming

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

Prompt engineering

NLP

Empirical evaluation

Education

PhD in AI/CS/Computational Linguistics/NLP or related field

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

Job description

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to advance Large Language Model components for educational professionals, focusing on developing, evaluating, and integrating LLM-based tools into the Presentis student information system. You will prototype prompting strategies and structured inputs while collaborating with domain experts to ensure usefulness and safety.

The role emphasizes interaction design, evaluation with educators, and dissemination of findings