Research Associate “Technical Lead” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG - Hamburg

Universität Hamburg
Raum Hamburg

Dein Job

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

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) is a competence unit for research and forms the core element for the central support of digitalization and digital transformation in research at the University of Hamburg. As Technical Lead, your role encompasses guiding the team of research software engineers from a technical perspective. You ensure sustainable software design, establish architectural patterns, and enable scalability of solutions. Based on extensive experience, you will also drive research projects and support the ongoing development of HCDS.

Specific Duties

  • leading the team of research software engineers

  • consulting for scientists of all faculties about possibilities, requirements and implementations of data science and general digital solutions for research

  • planning, implementation, maintenance, and quality assurance 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

  • DevOps tasks within the scope of application development

  • work at the interdisciplinary intersection within the scope of application development and strategic development of (international) cooperation

  • teaching 4 hours per week (4 LVS)

Dein Profil

A university degree in a relevant field, plus doctorate.

  • extensive experience in technical multi-project management

  • experience in leading large, international teams of researchers in academic workshops, conferences, and shared tasks

  • extensive track record of impactful research in the area of NLP, Data Science, and applications of AI in humanities and beyond

  • multilingual and multimodal research experience, both for high and low-resource languages

  • participation in international committee for research, training, and development

  • experience in DevOps, MLOps, and Cloud infrastructure

  • showcased research on the state of the art methods in machine learning (esp. transformer models) for multiple years

  • excellent programming knowledge in python and other relevant languages

  • extensive experience in Data Management and Data Engineering

  • expertise and ongoing interest in interdisciplinary research on digitalization challenges

  • intermediate German language skills (B1) and fluency in English is required

Deine Benefits

Flexible Arbeitszeit
Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten
Mobile Office
Home Office
Dienstlaptop
Vertrauensarbeitszeit

Stellenmerkmale

Dein Beschäftigungsumfang

Vollzeit (unbefristet)

Dein Gehalt

E14

Dein Arbeitsplatz:

z.T. im Homeoffice

Dein Büro:

Raum Hamburg

Ansprechpartner:in

Bei Fragen

Herr Dr. Martin Semmann