Postdoctoral Researcher

**You love finding creative solutions for tricky challenges? You are eager to make the successors of MP3 and AAC even better by using methods of machine learning and artificial intelligence?**

**Join the home of MP3**

**What you will do**
You will become part of a top team that develops new methods for enhancing audio coding formats that are already fantastic. We aim to improve sound, speech and audio coding, transmission, and light field technologies.

Interested? We are an interdisciplinary team, looking to support career-oriented talents.

**What you bring to the table**
- Expertise in machine learning or signal processing
- Experience using C++ and Python
- Enthusiasm for scientific issues and scientific working methods
- English for working in an international team

**What you can expect**
- An **exciting job** at a global market leader in a **highly innovative key industry.**:

- Projects with a **strong practical component** motivate our employees to **drive innovation.**:

- Our **dedicated teams** offer freedom for your ideas and **room for creativity.**:

- We value personal contact**:With our structured onboarding process**, you will quickly become familiar with our institute and be able to extend your network successfully.
- We take your needs seriously: We support your **work-life balance** by offering flexible working hours and hybrid work.
- Our colleagues enjoy our **positive work culture**: We are open-minded, we help and trust each other.
- **Top of the line infrastructure at your work-place**: With our state-of-the-art technologies, we develop solutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
- Talent development already starts in school: Our programs inspire young people at an early age to pursue sciences and foster creative junior scientists.
- Your goals and interests are important to us: We offer ongoing **professional **and **personal seminars, coaching,** and **language classes.**:

- We offer equal opportunities: Our **female scientists**, for example, benefit from the **»**Fraunhofer TALENTA**« career program.**:

- **We offer complementary parking spaces, charging stations for electric cars** and **covered bicycle parking**, and showers at the institute.
- We subsidize your **Deutschland-Ticket (Jobticket)** ‒ bus stops are located directly in front of the institute.
- **In-house health management,** including **sports courses, running groups, and relaxation seminars.**

The position is initially limited to 2 years, with the aim for subsequent extension. The weekly working time is 39 hours. The position can also be filled on a part-time basis.

With its focus on developing key technologies that are vital for the future and enabling the commercial utilization of this work by business and industry, Fraunhofer plays a central role in the innovation process. As a pioneer and catalyst for groundbreaking developments and scientific excellence, Fraunhofer helps to shape society now and in the future.

**Interested?**

Claudia Kestler-Böhm
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS

Requisition Number: 6365