PostDoc / Research Engineer Position in the AqQua Project: Building a Foundation Model of Aquatic Life
2025-03-31
Berlin
The Aquatic Life Foundation Project AqQua seeks to create the first foundational pelagic imaging model, leveraging billions of images from diverse aquatic environments around the globe. Join the team and build large-scale AI to map and monitor plankton biodiversity, ecosystem health and carbon flux, facilitating decision‑making in the face of climate change.
AqQua is a large-scale collaborative research project led by the MDC / Helmholtz Imaging, GEOMAR, Hereon and FZJ, fully committed to Open Science.
We are looking for a PhD student or PostDoc or Research Software Engineer to join our highly vibrant and uniquely interdisciplinary team of AI- and domain experts dedicated to the cause. Potential responsibilities for the position:
- 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
