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Saarland University is officially recognized as one of Germany’s family-friendly higher-education institutions and with a combined workforce of more than 4000 it is The department for Spoken Language Systems is inviting applications for the following position commencing at the earliest opportunity.

Doctoral Research Position (m/f/x)

Reference number W2881, salary in accordance with the German TV-L salary scale1, pay grade: E13 TV- L, duration of employment: 3 years with a possible extention for a fourth year on a 50% position, volume of employment: 75 %of standard working time.

Workplace/Department:

Spoken Language Systems of the largest employers in the region.

Job requirements and responsibilities:

In recent years a new field has emerged: AI for Science. Our group has a long and strong tradition in languagemodelling (several best paper awards at major NLP conferences) and is building on top of this. Our research is donein very close collaboration with the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research as well as the University Hospital, giving us access to exciting unique data.

This position is topically open as long as it matches our group and the environment at Saarland University well.Fundamental and applied topics are equally welcome.

Your academic qualifications:

• Completed scientific university studies in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Bioinformatics, Physics , Mathematics or similar
• Language skills (according to GER): English on C1 level

The successful candidate will also be expected to:

• Have excellent knowledge of machine learning
• deep learning, excellent programming skills
• have successfully worked both independently and as part of a small team
• Language skills (according to GER): English on C1 level

What we can offer you:

• A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family, among other things the possibility of teleworking
• Secure and future-oriented employment with attractive conditions
• A broad range of further education and professional development programmes (for example language courses)
• An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports programme
• Supplementary pension scheme (RZVK)
• Discounted tickets on local public transport services (‘Job-Ticket‘ of the saarVV)
• Job bike leasing (JobRad)

We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 10.07.2026 to dietrich.klakow@uni-saarland.de. Please include the reference number W2881 in the subject line of the e-mail.

If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact:

Herr Prof. Dr. Dietrich Klakow

dietrich.klakow@lsv.uni-saarland.de

Tel.: 0049 681 58122