Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in NLP & AI (m/f/d), UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt

[E. Niemann UKP Lab]

🚀 We’re hiring Postdoctoral and Doctoral Researchers in NLP & AI (m/f/d), UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt

The UKP Lab, led by Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych, is one of Europe’s leading groups in Natural Language Processing and is recruiting researchers to join a highly international team at the frontier of trustworthy and applied AI. We combine fundamental research with open-source tools used worldwide (e.g., Sentence Transformers, AdapterHub), and are embedded in a rich ecosystem — ELLIS, Konrad Zuse School ELIZA, hessian.AI, and ATHENE.

We are looking for outstanding researchers who want to shape how humans and AI systems work together — and ensure that they do so reliably, safely, and in the service of people.

 

Priority research directions:

We especially welcome applications in the following areas, though strong candidates across UKP’s wider profile are encouraged to apply:

·        Verification-first AI & evaluation of agentic systems — rigorous, expert-grounded evaluation of LLMs and AI agents; trajectory-level reliability and safety; calibration; evaluation that scales when content is cheap to produce but expensive to verify.

·        Human–AI co-construction for expert and scientific work — mixed-initiative interaction, preference elicitation, and AI for science and education that preserves human understanding and skill rather than replacing it.

·        Trustworthy NLP for high-stakes domains — misinformation and fact-checking, content provenance and AI-text forensics, privacy-preserving health and clinical NLP, and NLP for cybersecurity (in collaboration with ATHENE).

 

Related interests are also welcome: LLM reasoning and planning, interpretability and robustness for safety, computational argumentation and AI for democratic deliberation, efficient and modular models, and multilingual/multimodal NLP.

 

You bring: a PhD or Master’s degree in NLP/ML/CS/HCI or related, a strong top-venue publication record (ACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, EMNLP, NAACL, CHI), and solid programming skills.

We offer: a world-class ecosystem (ELLIS, ELIZA, hessian.AI, ATHENE), strong compute and engineering support, mentorship toward research independence, and a vibrant international team in Darmstadt. TV-TU E13, full-time, initially 2 years (extension possible), starting a.s.a.p.

 

Apply: via https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ by July 24th, 2026, quoting reference to this post. Review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

 

More information: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/index.en.jsp