Research Assistant/doctoral Candidate in Argumentative Ai and Natural Language Processing

vor 1 Woche

St Gallen, Schweiz Universität St.Gallen Vollzeit

100 % (limited, by 01.11.2025)

**Your tasks**:

- Design and develop a multi-layered evaluation framework for reasoning in Argumentative AI
- Build interactive interfaces for annotation, model evaluation, and expert feedback
- Conduct user studies to assess usability and reasoning quality of LLM-generated output
- Collaborate with domain experts to align evaluation methods with philosophical concepts
- Contribute to NLP/AI and interdisciplinary publications as well as the broader development of evaluation standards in AI reasoning

**Your profile**:

- Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, or a related discipline
- Demonstrated interest or experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Argumentative AI
- Familiarity with Natural Language Inference (NLI), corpus creation, and evaluation methodologies is a strong plus
- Interest or experience in human-AI interaction, argumentation theory, or AI ethics is a plus
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience in web/frontend development (e.g., React, Vue, or similar frameworks) is an advantage
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams
- Diligent, responsible, structured, goal-oriented, and independent working style
- Very good command of spoken and written English

Our research at the Chair of Data Science and Natural Language Processing at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS-HSG) focuses on the areas of large language models (LLMs) and quantitative data science. You will play a key role in designing and building frameworks that will help us understand and improve how AI systems reason.

**Inspirational Work Environment**:
**Executive Education**:
**Network**:
**Family & Career**:
**Equal Opportunities**:
**Fit and Healthy**:
Further information on working at the HSG can be found here.

**For job-related questions**:
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh
Full Professor for Data Science and Natural Language Processing

Prof. Dr. Christina Niklaus
Assistant Professor

**Your place of work**:
**University of St.Gallen**: «A place where knowledge is created» - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 10'000 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3'500 researchers, educators and professional staff.

**Other Jobs**:
HR Business Partner:in (m/w/d) - auch Job-Sharing möglich
- Ressort Personal
80-100%

Student Assistant - Programme Management MBA-HSG (M/F/d)
- Executive School of Management, Technology and Law - MBA HSG
10-50%

WMS St. Gallen - Praktikum Kauffrau/Kaufmann EFZ (m/w/d)
- Institut für Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis (IRP-HSG)
80-100%

  • Phd Candidate

    Vor 2 Tagen

    St. Gallen, Schweiz Universität St.Gallen Vollzeit

    100 % (immediately or by agreement) **Your tasks**: - Are you looking for an exciting PhD opportunity at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems? Do you wonder how the strengths of (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and humans can be combined to improve creativity, productivity, or well-being? Are you interested in the design...

  • Doctoral Candidate at the Competence Centre for Top Teams

    Vor 4 Tagen

    St. Gallen, Schweiz University of St.Gallen Vollzeit

    Your tasks You will work closely with the Competence Centre for Top Teams (CCTT) at the Institute for International Management. You will conduct research as part of your PhD thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Winfried Ruigrok in the area of high-performance teams. An overview of his career and academic work can be found under the linked pages. You should be...

  • Research and teaching assistant

    vor 12 Stunden

    St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Schweiz Universität St (HSG) Vollzeit

    Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW-HSG Research and teaching assistant (PhD candidate) in International Economics or Urban Economics (m/f/d) % (unlimited, by Your tasks The Chair of Economics, led by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Rauch, is seeking to fill one or two funded PhD positions. Successful candidates will enrol...

  • PhD Researcher Zurich AI Lab

    vor 12 Stunden

    St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Schweiz Universität St Vollzeit

    PhD Researcher Zurich AI Lab (m/w/d) % (unbefristet by until Your tasksConduct independent and collaborative research in the field of business model innovation in the age of gen AI Contribute to the development and implementation of research projects within the AI Research Center Publish results in leading scientific journals and present findings at...

  • Research and teaching assistant

    vor 10 Stunden

    St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Schweiz Universität St Vollzeit

    Research and teaching assistant (PhD candidate) in International Economics or Urban Economics (m/f/d)70 % (unlimited, by Your tasksThe Chair of Economics, led by Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Rauch, is seeking to fill one or two funded PhD positions. Successful candidates will enrol in the PhD Program in Economics at the University of St.Gallen (GPEF) and are...

  • Research Assistant and Phd Student «platform

    vor 1 Woche

    St. Gallen, Schweiz Universität St.Gallen Vollzeit

    **Research Assistant and PhD Student «Platform Business Models in Digital Healthcare» (M/F/d)**: 100% (unlimited, by mutual agreement) **Your tasks**: The Bosch IoT Lab (Prof. Dr. Felix Wortmann, Prof. Dr. Oliver Gassmann) - a joint initiative of the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St. Gallen, the Department of Management,...

  • PhD Candidate

    Vor 4 Tagen

    St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Schweiz Universität St Vollzeit CHF 60'000 - CHF 90'000 pro Jahr

    Institute of Information Systems and Digital Business (IWI-HSG), Prof. Dr. J.M. Leimeister PhD Candidate / Research Associate in the field of Enterprise Software, Cloud Transformation, and Digital Sovereignty (m/f/d) % (immediately or by agreement Your tasks Are you looking for an exciting PhD opportunity at the intersection of Enterprise Software, Cloud...

  • Doctoral Students

    vor 2 Wochen

    St. Gallen, Schweiz Universität St.Gallen Vollzeit

    **Doctoral Students / Research Associates in Management of Renewable Energies (M/F/d)**: 100 % (limited) **Your tasks**: - The Chair of Management of Renewable Energies at the Institute for Economy and the Environment (IWÖ-HSG, Prof. Rolf Wüstenhagen) at the University of St.Gallen (HSG) is looking for three new doctoral students. This is a unique...

  • Research Assistant in Macroeconomics and Public Finance

    Vor 2 Tagen

    St. Gallen, Schweiz Universität St.Gallen Vollzeit

    **Research Assistant in Macroeconomics and Public Finance (M/F/d)**: 20 % (unlimited, by 01.04.2025) **Your tasks**: - You will contribute to our ongoing research projects in macro public finance, covering topics on inequality, taxation, student financing policies, human capital accumulation, and young household savings patterns. Your tasks will include -...

  • Research Assistant

    vor 2 Wochen

    St. Gallen, Schweiz University of St.Gallen Vollzeit

    Your tasks Participating in research within the field of Advanced Architectures such as Transformers, Recurrent Models, and Large Language Models (LLM). Conducting research and implementing innovative modifications using TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras. Rethinking and rebuilding the core mechanisms of models to enhance performance and efficiency. Integrating...