Researcher (m/f/d/x) – AI for Science – Participation in the DFG Project SciDocExtreme
DFKI Berlin, through its Speech and Language Technology research department, is involved in many national and international research programs and networks. We offer an interesting and flexible position in an innovative and international team that carries out national and European projects in the field of speech and language technology. The position is part of the DFG project SciDocExtreme (A Large-Scale Cross-Domain Dataset for AI-Driven Scientific Document Processing and Scientific Knowledge Extraction), which is coordinated by DFKI (Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm). The project is developing a very large dataset for AI-driven processing of scientific publications (in particular through automatic and manual annotation at various levels) as well as corresponding AI models (training, evaluation). The project is carried out in collaboration with GESIS (Cologne) and cooperates with the NFDI4DataScience and AI (NFDI4DS) project. SciDocExtreme will launch on January 1, 2027. Your tasks * Research and development work in the fields of natural language processing (NLP), data annotation, and AI models * Active involvement in coordinating the project and in specifying and developing the SciDocExtreme dataset * Leading a team of annotators (student research assistants) * Publishing research findings (at academic conferences and workshops, in journals) and documenting the work Your qualifications * Master’s degree in Computational Linguistics, NLP, AI, Computer Science or Cognitive Science (or equivalent) * Excellent programming skills (especially in Python) * Excellent knowledge of NLP, including practical experience, particularly in the areas of machine learning and neural networks * Proficiency in working with corpora and datasets * Ideally, experience with annotating or labelling large datasets * Ideally, first experience with publishing scientific articles * Ability to work in a team, results-oriented, highly self-motivated * Very good English skills and, ideally, German skills as well Your benefits * An innovative, agile, and professional work environment * A competitive salary, flexible hours, and the option to work from home * Diverse and challenging tasks * Opportunity to pursue a Ph.D. on a topic related to the project The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has operated as a non-profit, Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) since 1988. DFKI combines scientific excellence and commercially-oriented value creation with social awareness and is recognized as a major "Center of Excellence" by the international scientific community. In the field of artificial intelligence, DFKI has focused on the goal of human-centric AI for more than 35 years. Research is committed to essential, future-oriented areas of application and socially relevant topics. DFKI encourages applications from people with disability; DFKI intends to increase the proportion of female employees in the field of science and encourages women to apply for this position. In case of questions please reach out to Georg Rehm <[email protected]>. We look forward to your application via https://jobs.dfki.de<https://jobs.dfki.de/>. Deadline: 30 October 2026. -- Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm<http://georg-re.hm> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Deputy Site Director DFKI Lab Berlin Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin [DFKI]<https://www.dfki.de> DFKI GmbH<https://www.dfki.de>, Salzufer 15/16, 10587 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 [email protected] Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Oscar-Werner Reif Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313
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