Scientific Assistant (f/m/d) Teaching Consultant – 2026/96 Part-time

Scientific Assistant (F/M/D) Teaching 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) Teaching Consultant.

Your tasks

• Compact courses on AI topics within the Helmholtz Association
  • Coordination and organization
  • Design and composition
  • Quality assurance and assessment of learning success
• Independent research on machine learning in the natural sciences

Your profile

• Completed university studies (Master/Diploma/PhD) in the field of Computer Science, Natural Sciences or related fields or a certified teacher's degree
• Relevant professional experience in the specified area
• Experience in machine learning methods (tabular data with scikit-learn or related libraries, computer vision with Unets or related, language modelling and prediction with large language models)
• Experience in using large language models and agentic workflows
• Teaching experience equivalent to at least 4-6 one-week courses
• Experience in modern teaching methods (inverted class-room, no-code, with-code, peer learning,…)
• Familiar with open educational resources as a basis for learning material
• Familiar with reproducible digital data science (programming, version control, package management, command-line usage, data analysis with jupyter/marimo)
• Familiar with surveying or similar tools for quality control
• Excellent communication skills
• A self-organized and creative approach to work, characterized by curiosity, tolerance, and a conscious approach to dealing with mistakes
• Fluent proficiency in English and German

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.