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University assistant predoctoral 

39 Faculty of Computer Science  

Job vacancy starting: 12/15/2025  | Working hours:  30,00  | Classification CBA: §48 VwGr. B1 Grundstufe (praedoc) 

Limited contract until: 03/14/2026

Job ID: 4318

The Doctoral School Computer Science DoCS (https://docs.univie.ac.at) founded in 2020 offers a structured doctoral programme that supports early-career research in the areas of Computer Science and Business Informatics. The programme includes world-leading researchers in Computer Science as supervisors and co-supervisors who pursue basic as well as applied research within an intensive doctoral teaching programme tailored to the scientific needs of students in small topical groups.
The Doctoral School Computer Science provides the option of performance-based contract extensions (up to 3 months) to doctoral students who previously had a position as university assistant (prae doc) or as third-party funded researcher (prae doc) at the University of Vienna. This completion contract is meant to support a high-qualified DoCS fellow in the final phase of the doctoral studies. The successful applicant will get a contract as university assistant (prae doc) and will be working in the research group “Data Mining and Machine Learning” at the Faculty of Computer Science. This job advertisement is a completion contract.

Your personal sphere of influence:

As a university assistant Praedoc, you will complement/complete the research team around Benjamin Roth and carry out tasks such as e.g. undertake research in the area of natural language processing using deep learning methods.

The focus of our research is in the area of natural language processing with deep learning methods, especially large language models.

This is a limited term position for 3 months.

Your future tasks:

You actively participate in research, teaching & administration, which means:

• Completion of your doctoral studies
• Participation in teaching and independent teaching of courses as defined by the collective agreement
• You will participate in research projects and scientific studies in the area of natural language processing and calibration of large language models
• You are working on your dissertation and its completion
• You hold courses independently within the scope of the collective agreement provisions
• You will take on administrative tasks in research and teaching

This is part of your personality:

• Completed master's/diploma degree in computer science, computational linguistics or a related field of study
• Publications in the area of Natural Language Processing (e.g. ACL, EMNLP)
• Didactic skills / experience in e-learning
• Knowledge of deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, Huggingface, Tensorflow)
• very good knowledge of English
• You are a team player with high social/communicative skills
• Knowledge in personalization of large language models is particularly desirable

What we offer:

Work-life balance: Our employees enjoy flexible working hours and can partially work remotely. 

Inspiring working atmosphere: You are a part of an international academic team in a healthy and fair working environment.

Good public transport connections: Your workplace is easily accessible by public transport.

Internal further training & Coaching: Opportunity to deepen your skills on an ongoing basis. There are over 600 courses to choose from – free of charge.

Fair salary: The basic salary of EUR 3.714,80 (on a full-time basis) increases if we can credit professional experience.

Equal opportunities for everyone: We look forward to diverse personalities in the team!

It is that easy to apply:

Apply with the following documents (via our job portal / Apply now button):

• With your academic CV
• With a letter of intent and a concept for the successful completion of a dissertation (max. 2 pages)
• Degree certificate of completed master's/diploma studies

If you have any questions, please contact:

Benjamin Roth  

benjamin.roth@univie.ac.at

We look forward to new personalities in our team! 
The University of Vienna has an anti-discriminatory employment policy and attaches great importance to equal opportunities, the advancement of women and diversity. We lay special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions among the academic and general university staff and therefore expressly encourage qualified women to apply. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female candidates.

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​Application deadline: 10/23/2025