BFH Logo

Research Assistant

'The high temporal autonomy with home office and a lot of freedom sometimes really makes me jump in the air,' says Christoph Röthenmund grinning. 'As a hobby pilot, I also like to take off privately and take a step back from my sometimes stressful work routine.'

Research Assistant

40 – 50% / Limited to 6 months / Bern / Start immediately or by arrangement
To start with, here are some of our strong points
  • Great freedom in work organisation with lots of leeway for your ideas, your creativity and decisiveness.
  • ,
  • When looking for solutions, it helps to be curious and to think truly outside the box.
  • ,
  • Focus on research that is geared towards practical orientation and the education of committed people rather than mere profit maximisation.
  • ,
  • Great freedom in the organisation of work times.
  • ,
  • Great freedom in the organisation of work times – including mobile working.
And here are even more good reasons to opt for BFH
What you'll be doing here
  • Writing research code (in Python)
  • Performing experiments in legal Natural Language Processing
  • Possibly writing academic papers
  • Setting up annotation tools (prodigy)
  • Reading academic research papers
What you'll bring with you
  • BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Data Science, Computational Linguistics or a closely related field
  • Knowledge of relational databases
  • Knowledge of machine/deep learning
  • Good programming skills (Python/JavaScript/Java/PHP/C++/etc.)
  • Good English and German skills (oral and written)
Business School

In the Business School, we offer an education with a clear practical emphasis for the digital change-makers of the future in the economy and society. Content we love to engage with includes topics such as New Work, digital business or public sector transformation.

Doing something meaningful in a fascinating environment and with an outlook to the future: a job at Bern University of Applied Sciences makes perfect sense. We’re busy researching, developing and virtually bending our minds to come up with practical solutions for business, culture and people in Bern, in Switzerland and all over the world. Apart from being incredibly interesting, this is also a lot of fun, and we get to learn a lot as well. This cutting-edge knowledge benefits all who are studying here or doing part-time continuing education courses. We have great plans for the future: We’re building two campuses and combining our strengths. So we’re creating the ideal environment for your future job with us.

Place of work
I’ll be your guide through the application procedure
Christine Kohler
HR Cosultant
P +41 31 848 44 97

Contact
For job-specific queries
Joel Niklaus
Research assistant
P +41 31 848 54 98

Contact
More exciting jobs
Job /
Assistent*in Institutsleitung (80%)

Departement Wirtschaft

Bern

Unbefristet

Job /
Professor*in für Rechnungswesen/Accounting (100%)

Departement Wirtschaft

Bern

Unbefristet

Job /
Forschungsassistent*in (40 – 50%)

Departement Wirtschaft

Bern

Befristet