Open Position as PhD / PostDoc / Research Engineer in the AqQua Project in Berlin: Join our team!

Helmholtz Imaging is part of the AqQua collaborative research project focused on aquatic life, pelagic imaging, and open science. The role will contribute to developing and scaling foundational AI models for plankton imagery, including self-supervised learning, data curation, model assessment, and deployment to the global user community.

Responsibilities:

• Explore, benchmark and devise self-supervised learning paradigms for plankton imagery
• Engineer advanced architectural components and workflows for efficient and effective foundation model training and fine-tuning
• Devise data curation- and balancing schemes
• Rigorously assess model scaling and generalization behavior
• Roll out the model to the global user community