Student Research Assistant (m/f/d): Product & Engineering, IFoRes

Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IKIM), University Hospital Essen | Hufelandstr. 55, 45147 Essen, on-site | 16-19 h/week | start date: ASAP, 1 year **ABOUT THE PROJECT** As part of an IFoRes-funded project at IKIM, we develop in-house AI platforms that support clinicians in their daily work, from clinical documentation to data-driven decision support. Our tools run on our own infrastructure and are used in routine care at University Hospital Essen. **YOUR ROLE** You work between the clinicians who use our tools and the developers who build them. You turn clinical needs into clear product tasks and help build and check the solutions. **Product** * Talk to clinicians and department staff, observe how they work, and turn their needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria * Triage and prioritise user feedback and bug reports, and reproduce issues * Write specs and small mockups for new features and test them with users * Help plan rollouts to new departments (onboarding, training material, feedback rounds) **Technical** * Evaluate the quality of speech recognition and LLM output: build small test sets, define metrics, run comparisons, report findings * Develop and test prompts for clinical text generation and department-specific terminology * Write and run tests and check new features end to end in the browser * Build and improve frontend features in our web apps (Vue 3, TypeScript), with review from the team * Implement small features and fixes in the API * Document features, decisions and workflows **KEY REQUIREMENTS** * Degree: enrolled student (Bachelor or Master) * Field: computer science, medical informatics, data science or related * German: at least B1 * English: at least B2 * Hours: 16-19 h/week, for 1 year **WHAT YOU BRING** **Must have** * Enrolled student (Bachelor/Master) in computer science, medical informatics, data science or a related field (medicine with strong programming skills is also welcome) * Solid programming skills, ideally TypeScript/JavaScript or Python * Ability to take a vague request, ask the right questions and turn it into a precise task * Clear written and spoken German and English (clinical contact is mostly in German) (B1 can apply) * A careful, independent way of working; you check your own results **Nice to have** * Experience with Vue 3, Node.js/Express, SQL or REST APIs * Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering or evaluating NLP/ASR systems (e.g. WER) * Experience with git, code review and writing tests * Interest in clinical workflows, or prior work in a hospital or health-tech setting * Awareness of data protection in healthcare (GDPR, handling patient data) **WHAT WE OFFER** * Real impact: your work is used by clinicians every day * Hands-on work with current speech and language models on our own GPU infrastructure * Close mentoring by the developers and direct access to clinical users * Flexible hours around your lectures and exams * Option to contribute to publications and evaluation studies * Pay: €15.20 per hour gross (student assistant/SHK rate), e.g. €1,255.70 per month at 19 h/week **HOW TO APPLY** Send your CV, a short motivation (max. one page) and, if available, a link to code or a project you are proud of to [email protected]. Please include your earliest start date and weekly hours. The University Hospital Essen promotes equal opportunity and welcomes applications from all backgrounds. #hiring #studentjob #healthtech #AI #Essen #medicalinformatics