Research Associate for the Project “KIDHHS” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG

Research Associate for the Project “KIDHHS” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG

Your responsibilities:

• Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.
• 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 Universität Hamburg.
• In the project “KIDHHS - KI-basierter Desinformationsindikator für Hamburger Schulen” you will work on the issue of identification of disinformation narratives on social media. The core is an LLM-based indication system to enable real-time identification and contextualization. Based on this information, material for schools is developed that aims for increasing digital literacy and resilience. Based on the latest research results, you will ensure systematic utilization of the potentials in real-world settings.

Your profile:

• A university degree in a relevant field.
• Experience in natural language processing and data modelling.
• Knowledge of relational and graph databases such as Neo4j, MySQL, or MongoDB.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Training and finetuning of large language models.
• Social media analytics.
• Design and evaluation of complex software systems.
• Frontend development for data-centric tools.
• Building dashboards including network and graph visualizations.
• Very good command of written and spoken English and German.
• Strong social and communication skills, initiative, motivation, high sense of responsibility, ability to work in a team, and very good organizational skills.

We offer:

• Reliable remuneration based on wage agreements.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• University pensions.
• Attractive location.
• Flexible working hours.
• Work-life balance opportunities.
• Health management, EGYM Wellpass.
• Educational leave.
• 30 days of vacation per annum.

Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence is one of the strongest research educational institutions in Germany. Our work in research, teaching, educational and knowledge exchange activities is fostering the next generation of responsible global citizens ready to tackle the global challenges facing us. Our guiding principle “Innovating and Cooperating for a Sustainable Future in a digital age” drives collaboration with academic and nonacademic partner institutions in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region and around the world. We would like to invite you to be part of our community to work with us in creating sustainable and digital change for a dynamic and pluralist society.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg promotes equal opportunity. As women are currently underrepresented in this job category at the University of Hamburg according to the evaluation conducted under the Hamburg act on gender equality (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HambGleiG), we encourage women to apply for this position. Equally qualified and suitable female applicants will receive preference.

Severely disabled and disabled applicants with the same status will receive preference over equally qualified non-disabled applicants.