Research Associate as Research Software Engineer § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG

Duties primarily include research. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

• consulting for scientists of all faculties about possibilities and implementations of data science and general digital solutions for research
• requirements analysis with the prospective users (researchers of all fields)
• planning, implementation and maintenance of data science software
• development of all kinds of data-driven systems, all the way from advanced data analytics to multimodal transformer models
• creation of user-friendly interfaces tied to expertise and needs of the users
• analysis and recommendation of state-of-the-art technologies for both models and infrastructure
• evaluation and quality assurance of the applications
• DevOps tasks within the scope of application development
• analysis and recommendation of state-of-the-art technologies for both models and infrastructure
• evaluation and quality assurance of the applications
• work at the interdisciplinary intersection within the scope of application development

A university degree in a relevant field with a high share of data analytics and/or software development, esp. computer science, data science or information systems.

• programming knowledge (preferably in Python)
• experience with one or more of the following:
• Machine Learning (esp. transformer models)
• RAG and multi agent infrastructures
• Databases and Data Engineering
• Infrastructure for search
• Knowledge-based systems
• Data visualization
• Frontend development
• interest in interdisciplinary research on digitalization challenges
• interest and expertise in interdisciplinary research
• knowledge about Elasticsearch, Jupyter Notebooks, Docker and PostgreSQL is advantageous
• knowledge about DevOps, MLOps and Cloud Infrastructure is advantageous