PhD Researcher in Trustworthy and Human-Centred AI Development

Position

Vollzeit

Befristet

Entry

Konditionen

Zürich

100%

The gross salary will be the standard salary rate for PhD students at ETH Zurich.

Anforderungen

Master

EU/EFTA-Bewilligung

Skills

Prompting strategiesPrototypingRetrieval-augmented workflowsMachine learningLarge Language Models (LLM)Human-Computer InteractionExplainable AIEvaluation frameworks designHuman-agent interactionAI-enabled toolsResponsible AIUser experience research

Sprachen

Englisch

Vergütung

The gross salary will be the standard salary rate for PhD students at ETH Zurich.

Beschreibung

As a PhD Researcher, you will pursue independent research on trustworthy and human-centred AI while contributing to the systems we are building in this space. The work spans methodological research and concrete implementation, and treats questions of reliability, accountability, and human-AI interaction as research questions in their own right and not as deployment afterthoughts. You will work alongside researchers and engineers in an international team and will have the room to shape the direction of your own thesis. An example of a system to be developed are trustworthy AI voting assistants in the context of Supported Democracy.

Aufgaben

Conducting research on AI reliability, security, trustworthiness, and human-AI interaction, with a focus on high-stakes settings.
Publishing at top venues in AI and responsible AI research (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, FAccT, EAAMO, AIES, CHI, etc.).
Designing, building, and iterating prototypes that take their real-world context seriously, including who uses them, under what conditions, and with what consequences.
Working hands-on with large language models: evaluating their behavior, improving their reliability for concrete use cases, and integrating them into systems with particular attention to security, explainability, and the interaction between humans and AI.
Contributing to the development of LLM-based systems, including prompting strategies, tool use, evaluation, retrieval-augmented workflows, and adaptation.
Designing and running user studies to evaluate how people interact with the systems we build, in collaboration with other members of the team.

Anforderungen

A master-s degree in computer science, machine learning, HCI, or a related field.
Strong foundations in machine learning and familiarity with current AI tools and practices.
A solid understanding of large language models, in particular their reliability, security, and explainability characteristics.
Familiarity with the technical and human-factors sides of human-computer interaction.
The ability to work independently, communicate clearly, and navigate open-ended research questions.

Vorteile

ETH Zurich offers internationally competitive working conditions.
The gross salary will be the standard salary rate for PhD students at ETH Zurich.
KOF PhD students are part of a large and vibrant community of economic researchers.
A doctoral position at the intersection of computer science research and an applied domain - democracy and money systems - where decisions about how AI systems are built have visible social consequences.
A doctorate from ETH Zürich, supervised by Prof. Hans Gersbach and a computer science professor.
Embedding in an internationally recognized research environment with close ties to economics, policy, and public institutions.
Engagement with the broader research community working on responsible and trustworthy AI.
Connections across academia, central banks, and policy communities working on AI and economic systems.
Substantial room for initiative and for shaping your own research agenda.

Unternehmen

ETH Zurich

Education

ETH Zurich is one of the world-s leading universities specialising in science and technology. We are renowned for our excellent education, cutting-edge fundamental research and direct transfer of new knowledge into society. Over 30,000 people from more than 120 countries find our university to be a place that promotes independent thinking and an environment that inspires excellence. Located in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, we work together to develop solutions for the global challenges of today and tomorrow.

Kontakt

hr@kof.ethz.ch