Student assistant - Applications of Large Language Models to Industrial Use-Cases

The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (www.fraunhofer.com) currently operates 76 institutes and research units throughout Germany and is a leading applied research organization. Around 32 000 employees work with an annual research budget of 3.4 billion euros.

Specialization: Computer science, cybernetics, mathematics, technical computer science or comparable.

Industrial companies face unique challenges when utilizing generative AI, such as the risk of intellectual property loss through data leaks. The Cyber Cognitive Intelligence department (CCI) is researching customer-specific, data-protection-compliant methods for content generation in various modalities to address this issue. CCI is building a team of researchers to apply GenAI to industry-related use-cases.

What you will do

The goal of the proposed work is to contribute to our GenAI projects, including the following tasks:

Research and development of (multimodal) generative AI approaches
Implementing and studying generative AI for industrial use cases with industry-specific problems
Research into methods in the areas of privacy-preserving machine learning and membership inference attacks
Development of innovative solutions using modern methods of machine learning and statistics
Practical implementation and testing of generative AI in cooperation with industrial partners

What you bring to the table

Experience in statistics and machine learning, especially with generative models such as GAN, VAE, and diffusion, as well as transformers
Experience in application domains such as text, code or image generation (e.g. with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT or Llama)
Ideally experience in task-specific fine-tuning of pre-trained ML (foundation) models
Good programming knowledge in relevant programming languages, such as Python and Jupyter Notebooks
Practical experience in toolkits such as scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain or similar
Very good knowledge of German and/or very good English
Creativity, enthusiasm, autonomy are important qualities for this position

What you can expect

Interesting tasks in applied research and development in close contact with industry
First-class equipped test fields and a unique research infrastructure
Professional and creative working atmosphere in committed teams as well as innovative, future-oriented subject areas in a renowned research institute
Modernly equipped workplaces and flexible working hours

We value and promote the diversity of our employees' skills and therefore welcome all applications - regardless of age, gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, sexual orientation and identity. Severely disabled persons are given preference in the event of equal suitability. Remuneration according to the general works agreement for employing assistant staff.

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 shape society now and in the future.

Interested? Apply online now. We look forward to getting to know you!

Lisa Bauer
Recruiting
Tel. +49 711 970-3681

lisa.bauer@ipa.fraunhofer.de

Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA

www.ipa.fraunhofer.de

Requisition Number: 72556 Application Deadline:

Job Segment: R&D Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, R&D, Industrial, Engineering, Research, Manufacturing

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