Research Asisstant

**Paderborn University is a high-performance and internationally oriented university with approximately 18,000 students. Within interdisciplinary teams, we design forward-loo-king research, innovative teaching and the active transfer of knowledge into society. As an important research and cooperation partner, the university also shapes regional de-velopment strategies. We offer our more than 2,600 employees in research, teaching, technology and administration a lively, family friendly, equal opportunity environment, a lean management structure and diverse opportunities.**

**Join us to invent the future**

The **Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics** - Department of Computer Science/Data Science Junior Research Group - offers a full-time position as

**Research Assistant (f/m/d)**
(Salary group E 13 TV-L)

starting as soon as possible. This is a qualification position in the sense of the Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG), which serves to support a PhD project in the field of **Explainable Artificial Intelligence**. The position is limited in time for the duration of the doctoral process, depending on the qualification achieved so far, but usually for a period of 3 years. An extension to complete the doctorate may be possible within the limits set by the WissZeitVG.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Research in Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- This includes the development of scalable approaches for explaining machine learning models on large knowledge graphs
- Teaching for 4 hours per week

**Your profile**:

- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
- Profound knowledge in machine learning
- Programming skills in Python
- Prior knowledge of explainable machine learning, machine learning with graphs, knowledge graphs, and reinforcement learning is a plus
- Very good knowledge of English

**We offer**:

- Possibility of mobile working and flexible working hours
- Work on highly relevant research topics and technologies
- Personnel development through further training opportunities
- An employer pension scheme (VBL)

Applications from women are particularly welcome and, in case of equal qualifications and ex-periences, will receive preferential treatment according to the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (LGG), unless there are preponderant reasons to give preference to another applicant. Part-time employment is possible. Applications from disabled people with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. This also applies to people with equal oppor-tunities in accordance with the German social law SGB IX.

**Further information**: