About the Company
The Institute of Material and Process Design at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon is offering a 4-year PhD position in the area of machine learning and computer simulations.
Your Tasks
- Development of novel machine models based on supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning that can be combined with, enhance or replace methods from computational engineering and computer simulation
- Data assimilation towards experimental measurements under consideration of uncertainties
- Utilization of Explainable AI techniques to enable novel scientific discoveries
- Implementation of your machine learning pipeline in Python (using e.g. PyTorch)
- Validation of your results in collaboration with colleagues from various application areas (cross-disciplinary)
- Publication and presentation of your scientific results in international scientific journals and at international conferences and workshops
Your Profile
- Masters degree in mechanical engineering, materials science, computational engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, physics or a similar area
- Very good programming skills in Python
- Good prior experience with neural networks using common Python-ML libraries such as PyTorch
- Preferably also background knowledge in computational mechanics and applied mathematics
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English
What We Offer
- An exciting and varied job in a research centre with around 1,000 employees from more than 60 nations
- A well-connected research campus (public transport) and best networking opportunities, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket if certain conditions are met (job ticket)
- Individual opportunities for further training
- Social benefits according to the collective agreement of the public service and remuneration up to pay group 13 according to TV EntgO Bund
- An excellent technical infrastructure and modern workplace equipment
- 6 weeks holiday per year; company holidays between Christmas and New Years Day
- Very good compatibility of private and professional life; offers of mobile and flexible work
- PhD Buddy Program
- Family-friendly company policy with childcare facilities, e.g. nursery close to the company
- Free assistance program for employees (EAP)
- Corporate benefits
- A varied offer in the canteen on campus