Machine Learning Research Engineer

Kempelenov inštitút inteligentných technológií, v anglickom jazyku Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies

Place of work
The Spot, Bottova, Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Start date
Upon agreement
Wage (gross)
From 2 400 EUR/monthThe final offer strongly depends on the seniority and experience of a successful candidate.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

To our unique scientific institute with a dynamic research community, we seek a highly motivated team member, who will participate in interesting collaboration with industry and knowledge transfer.

Your contribution will drive positive change through unique software solutions and you will collaborate with international research institutions and innovative companies.

Your work will be primarily (not exclusively) focused on one of following application areas:
- Quality of information, focusing on combating false information and on-line malicious behavior; use of information retrieval and recommendations; interpretation and explanation of AI models.
- Energy and environmental challenges, focusing on forecasting (nowcasting), anomaly detection,optimization of smart grids and flexibility solutions.
- Natural language processing, focusing on language modeling and large language models, involving low-resource languages; addressing tasks such as text classification, sentiment analysis, text generation or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).

Your responsibilities will include:
- Research, development and support for data analysis, training and evaluating models, data visualization and other data science related endeavors
- Engineering support of scientific experimentation and evaluation of methods and phenomena, coding, setting up the infrastructure and deploying solutions of different types.
- Analyze requirements in industrial and research projects and transform them into a solution (analysis, proof of concept, prototype, product or a research paper).
- Optionally: Set up and maintain cloud and on-premises infrastructure. We work with various cloud providers (the major focus being on AWS and Azure), our own cluster and also high-performance computing infrastructure.
- Share the knowledge both internally and within the community.

Information about the selection process

Should you be interested in applying for our job opening, please send us your CV. We will contact you with information about the selection process.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

- Relevant experience in any of (or equivalent):
Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning
Data analysis, Data engineering
Computer science, Software engineering
- Effective communication skills to communicate with industrial partners and researchers, present research findings, and contribute to research publications and industrial reports.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to analyze data, identify patterns, and derive actionable insights for research and industrial applications.
- Continuous learning mindset, staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in cutting edge technologies, industry trends and AI.
- We don’t expect you to meet all the requirements. We are not in search of a Superman, but rather a dedicated individual who is willing to improve both themselves and us.

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Brief description of the company

KInIT is an independent non-profit institute connecting industry to excellent science. We bring together and enable growth of experts in artificial intelligence and other areas of computer science, with connections to other disciplines:

- Web and user data processing including empowering humans with the ability to evaluate credibility of information and its manipulation
- Processing and comprehension of natural language
- Green and secure environment
- Ethics and human values in intelligent technologies

KInIT combines the excellent competencies of academic researchers and educators with innovative companies, their needs and experience. By involving the private sector, our team of top notch Slovak AI research experts seek to create a healthy research ecosystem that bridges academia and industry.

Number of employees

50-99 employees
ID: 4774699  Dátum zverejnenia: 1.3.2024  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 2 400 EUR/month