Scientific Assistant (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant – 2026/97 Part-time

Scientific Assistant (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant

With cutting-edge research in the fields of ENERGY, HEALTH and MATTER, around 1,500 employees from more than 70 nations at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) are committed to mastering the great challenges facing society today.

The Department of Information Services and Computing is the service, consultation and coordination centre for the Information Infrastructure of the HZDR.

The Group of Artificial Intelligence is looking for a Scientific Assistant (f/m/d) Junior Helmholtz.AI Consultant.

Your Tasks

• Design, test, training, evaluation/benchmarking and use of computer vision-based AI systems
• Design, test, training, evaluation/benchmarking and use of tabular-data based AI systems
• Presentation and communication of results at international conferences and in peer-reviewed journals
• Developing methods for explaining AI-based predictions

Your Profile

• Completed university studies (Bachelor/Master/Diploma) in Computer Sciences, in the field of Natural Sciences, or related fields
• Experience and knowledge in supervised learning computer vision architectures (Unet, StarDist, Cellpose, CPN, nnUnet, SAM, Dino, Yolo)
• Experience and knowledge in machine learning benchmarking and evaluation metrics
• Experience and knowledge in tabular machine learning (scikit-learn, xgboost)
• Experience and knowledge in reproducible scientific programming and data science
• Experience and knowledge in FAIR data management
• Experience and knowledge in use of HPC resources
• Experience and knowledge with methods of explainability of computer vision models
• A self-organized, creative approach to work, as well as a communicative, tolerant, and resilient personality with a strong sense of curiosity
• Fluent English proficiency, German proficiency considered beneficial

Our Offer

• A vibrant research community in an open, diverse and international work environment
• Scientific excellence and extensive professional networking opportunities
• Salary and social benefits in accordance with the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD-Bund) including 30 days of paid holiday leave, company pension scheme (VBL)
• Depending on the personal qualifications, the candidate may be classified in salary group 13 according to TVöD-Bund
• We support a good work-life balance with the possibility of part-time employment, mobile working and flexible working hours
• Numerous company health management offerings
• Employee discounts with well-known providers via the platform Corporate Benefits
• An employer subsidy for the “Deutschland-Ticket Jobticket”

We look forward to receiving your application documents (including cover letter, CV, diplomas/transcripts, etc.), which you can submit via our online-application-system.