Junior / Senior Researcher in Data Science and its Applications

Timely models for individual and societal health: “Eventful” is a project developing new methods for effective modelling of spatio-temporal processes, with applications in crisis prediction and prevention and geopolitics. You will help build standardised frameworks for preparation and evaluation of models for longitudinal survey data, patient trajectories, and socio-political processes in noisy or high-dimensional settings.

Reducing patient burden and research cost: the AI4Nof1 project leverages cutting-edge developments in (causal, neurosymbolic) reinforcement learning, psychometrics, and digital epidemiology to build adaptive personalised treatment regimes for chronic conditions, simultaneously identifying phenotypes and causal pathways while minimising the time and number of measurements needed for patients to find a treatment that is right for them.

The TrustifAI project aims to contribute a set of concrete solutions to improve trustworthiness of AI applications in health and wellbeing at various stages of the development lifecycle. A quality platform for the development of trustworthy AI applications will enable users to create efficient and effective data science analytics pipelines through a human-in-the-loop approach, with the goal of increasing trustworthiness.

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All our research projects aim to deliver open-source tools and packages, which in some aspects demand a focus on research software engineering.

You should have a quantitative background in statistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, computer science, or data science—and a keen interest to contribute to exciting projects making a real impact in medical research, epidemiology, and reproducible science for social good.

The minimum qualification for Junior Researcher, Researcher, and Senior Researcher levels are, respectively, a BSc, MSc, and PhD in a relevant subject.

You should have good communication skills in English.

In your cover letter, please include a statement of purpose explaining how you envisage contributing to our projects, drawing on your existing knowledge of theory, methodologies, workflows, datasets, and tools. This helps us identify the best match for your skills and interests.

Your benefits:

• Collaboration on high-impact projects in a diverse and motivated international and multidisciplinary team
• Work on highly topical scientific and social issues. Help shape research topics, develop application-oriented technologies, and put them into practice.
• Expand your expertise in pioneering areas
• A technically demanding, innovative, and professional working environment at one of Germany’s outstanding IT locations
• Competitive remuneration and social benefits
• Excellent network with contacts in industry and academia
• Flexible working hours with options to work in the office or from home

Salaries depend on personal experience and circumstances. We offer a competitive salary within the German research landscape and pride ourselves on providing a great working environment for our diverse team.

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" internationally. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on human-centric AI for over 35 years, committed to essential, future-oriented applications and socially relevant topics.

DFKI encourages applications from people with disabilities; we aim to increase female representation in science and encourage women to apply for this position.