Computer scientist in the field of GeoAI

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt eV.

Job

In this role, you will address scientific questions in GeoAI, develop and test methods for annotating large text corpora, and implement data science techniques for quality assurance using LLMs.

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Your role in the team

  • Participation in the DFG project GeoMMCorpus+Eval (https://gepris.dfg.de/project/575831912).
  • Introduction to the current state of research in the field of GeoAI, e.g., multilingual geo-parsing, creation and annotation of geographic text corpora, as well as LLM-based annotation and quality assurance procedures.
  • Design of scientific methods and workflows for the acquisition, processing, selection, and annotation of large, heterogeneous, and multilingual text data sets.
  • Development and application of data science methods for extracting, cleaning, filtering, and structuring large multilingual text corpora from various text genres, such as websites, news, social media, scientific publications, and historical documents.
  • Planning experimental studies on LLM-assisted annotation and iterative quality assurance with human-in-the-loop procedures.
  • Design and application of appropriate quality metrics to evaluate the results.

Our expectations of you

Education

  • Completed academic university degree (Master / Diplom Uni) in the field of Computer Science, Data Science, Geoinformatics, Computational Linguistics, or in another relevant study program for the position.

Qualifications

  • Ability to independently and responsibly handle scientific questions as well as to systematically plan, conduct, and evaluate scientific experiments.
  • Excellent spoken and written English skills.
  • Knowledge in the field of geoinformation processing, GeoAI, or geographic information extraction from texts is advantageous.

Experience

  • Solid knowledge and practical experience in the fields of Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, and Machine Learning.
  • Experience in working with Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly in their application and customization, e.g., through Prompting and Fine-Tuning.
  • Programming experience in Python as well as experience with relevant software development and version control tools, e.g., Git.

Benefits

Topics you will work on

Job locations

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  • Location Jena
    Thüringen, Germany

About your employer

As one of the leading research centers in the field of aerospace in Germany, DLR offers its approximately 8,700 employees the unique diversity of topics in aviation, spaceflight, energy, traffic, security and digitalization.

Company size
250+ Employees
Company type
Established Company
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid
Industry
Agriculture, Silviculture

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Computer scientist in the field of GeoAI

Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt eV.