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IAIFI Jobs

The following positions are at IAIFI-affiliated universities and therefore have the potential for IAIFI involvement; they are not necessarily directly hired by IAIFI.

Faculty Opportunities

Postdoc Opportunities

Postdoctoral researchers at any of the partner institutions may collaborate with IAIFI researchers to become a Junior Investigator.

Graduate Student Opportunities

IAIFI does not have a dedicated PhD program, but PhD students at any of the partner institutions may collaborate with IAIFI researchers to become a Junior Investigator.

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Academic Opportunities

Faculty Opportunities

Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer/ Reader in Foundational AI

University of Glasgow, Scotland
Deadline: 2025-04-30 | Apply

Details ​The successful applicant will be a member of the Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA) section, whose members are engaged in world-leading research on formal methods, programming language foundations and algorithms. It is expected that the post-holder will collaborate closely with the Information, Data and Analysis (IDA) section, which includes four world-leading research groups in data systems, human-computer interaction & machine learning, information retrieval, and computer vision & autonomous systems, as well as with the GLAsgow Systems Section (GLASS), which includes expertise in cybersecurity and adversarial AI. Particular areas where collaboration would be welcomed are computer vision, information retrieval, natural language processing and inference, and cybersecurity. There are also opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, where research on Foundational AI is being actively pursued.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Natural Language Processing

TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Deadline: 2025-05-22 | Apply

Details The TU Wien Faculty of Informatics seeks to fill the open tenure-track position of an Assistant Professor of Natural Language Processing. The position is affiliated with both the Data Science Research Unit, part of the Faculty of Informatics, and the Complexity Science Hub. The estimated starting date is January 2026.

CISPA, Saarbrücken & St. Ingbert, Germany
Deadline: 2025-04-08 | Apply

Details CISPA is a world-leading research center that focuses on Information Security and Artificial Intelligence at large. To expand and further strengthen our center, we are looking for Tenure-Track Faculty in all areas related to Information Security and Artificial Intelligence (f/m/d). All applicants are expected to grow a research team that pursues an internationally visible research agenda. To aid you in achieving this, CISPA provides institutional base funding for three full-time researcher positions and a generous budget for expenditures. Upon successful tenure evaluation, you will hold a position that is equivalent to an endowed full professorship at a top research university.

Assistant Professor / Professor Position in AI and ML

ISAE-SUPAERO, Toulouse, France
Deadline: 2025-04-20 | Apply

Details We invite applications for a permanent assistant professor / professor position, in AI and ML, at ISAE-SUPAERO, in Toulouse, France. The position holder will join the 'ML, Decision and Optimization' group (Apprentissage Décision Optimisation).

The teaching activities of the position cover ML, deep learning, optimization for ML and computing for ML. Our training programs are both in French and English. The candidate's research project should blend with the current research group.

ISAE-SUPAERO is an international, multi-cultural, inclusive institution, world leader in Aerospace training, with a general scientific outreach.

Professor of intelligent systems and cyberphysical systems

Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Deadline: 2025-04-01 | Apply

Details We have an open faculty position for research related to topics on intelligent systems at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada. Target areas include machine learning and computer vision.

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Mathematical AI

Lancaster University, UK
Deadline: 2025-04-23 | Apply

Details The School of Mathematical Sciences at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint Senior Lecturers and Lecturers in Mathematical AI to join ‘MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems’. MARS, which is funded by a £13m investment from Research England, conducts research and teaching at the interface of dynamical mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on using applied mathematics and AI methods to address real-world challenges.

You will hold a PhD and be able to demonstrate an outstanding track record in fundamental Machine Learning (ML) research, and evidence of using ML and AI methods to solve challenging problems. Ideally, you will have an application focus in at least one of the following MARS key application areas: cyber security, engineering, environment and health.

You will have an enthusiastic approach to developing scholarship within MARS and the wider School of Mathematical Sciences and will be willing to play an active role in developing a positive, inclusive and collaborative research culture.

Open Rank Faculty in Machine Learning

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Details Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is the world’s first graduate AI research university and is already ranked in the world’s top 20 by CSRankings for AI. Currently MBZUAI is home to 230 Master’s students and 135 PhD students and over 80 world leading faculty members led by its President, Eric Xing. The university offers MSc and PhD degrees in five programs: machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, and computer science. It will soon launch graduate programs in human-computer interaction, statistics & data science, and computational biology. For more information about MBZUAI, see https://mbzuai.ac.ae/

Lectureship in People-Centred AI

University of Surrey, UK
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Details The School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering together with the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI is seeking to recruit a full-time Lecturer in People-Centred Artificial Intelligence to expand our team of dynamic and highly skilled AI researchers.

The School is home to two established research centres with expertise in AI and Machine Learning: the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and the Computer Science Research Centre. This post is aligned to CVSSP.

CVSSP is an internationally recognised leader in artificial intelligence for audio-visual machine perception pioneering foundational research in the field over the past 40 years. With a diverse community of more than 150 researchers, we are one of the largest audio and vision research groups in the UK. Research in the Centre has led to award-winning spin-out companies in the biometric, communication, healthcare, and creative industries.

Professor of Mathematical AI

Lancaster University, UK
Deadline: 2025-04-07 | Apply

Details The School of Mathematical Sciences at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Mathematical AI to join ‘MARS: Mathematics for AI in Real-world Systems’.

MARS is a new centre for research and teaching funded by a £13m investment from Research England. It is transforming research at the interface of dynamical systems modelling and machine learning to deepen understanding of the mathematics underpinning AI to tackle real-world challenges.

We are looking for an exceptional Professor of Mathematical AI to play a central leadership role in shaping the future of MARS. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of outstanding research in mathematical AI; a passion for teaching, mentoring and developing future talent; and significant experience of building cross-disciplinary collaborations and forming strategic partnerships with public and private sector organisations.

Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Science and Technology

The Cyprus Institute, Aglandjia, Cyprus
Deadline: 2025-04-15 | Apply

Details The Cyprus Institute invites applications for a new faculty member at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor in the broader area of Computational Science and Technology, to join the Institute’s CaSToRC Centre on a full-time basis (100% FTE) for its premises at Athalassas’ Campus.

Computational Science and Technology is a well-established research area at CyI, and it includes experts in Machine Learning, Computational Modelling, and High-Performance Computing.

Assistant Professor (W1) of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (W1 with Tenure Track to W3)

Ulm University, Germany
Deadline: 2025-04-23 | Apply

Details The Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Psychology, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, is seeking to fill the position, starting as soon as possible, of an Assistant Professor (W1) of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (W1 with Tenure Track to W3); (m/f/d)

The research focus of the position is on fundamentals and methods for explainable artificial intelligence. Relevant topics include:
-Explainability of black-box models (e.g. neural networks)
-Interpretability of generative AI models
-Integration and extraction of knowledge in AI systems
-Neuro-symbolic AI systems
-Multimodal clarification dialogues

Postdoc Opportunities

Research Associate

The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Deadline: 2025-04-07 | Apply

Details The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to work with Dr Pasquale Minervini in the Edinburgh NLP Group, a world-leading research group in Natural Language Processing. The project is funded by the AI Hub in Generative Models. The researcher will work on projects involving the evaluation and improvement of multi-modal foundation models.

Engine Venture Fellowship

Engine Ventures, Cambridge, MA
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Details The Engine Ventures Fellowship is a unique paid part-time internship opportunity for entrepreneurially-minded graduate students and postdocs.

Engine Ventures is a fund spun out of MIT with a mission to support Tough Tech companies. We work with companies that are deeply rooted in scientific & engineering breakthroughs and address some of the World’s biggest challenges – companies that typically do not fit the traditional venture model.

Our Fellows receive training on forming, appraising and growing a start-up before being embedded in the investment team to diligence new deal opportunities, support portfolio companies and build out investment theses. Fellows become part of a growing community that has benefitted from this vantage point to become founders of Tough Tech start-ups or to take leading roles across academia, government, VCs and industry.

Postdoc and PhD Positions in AI

Cluster of Excellence (CoE) in Austria - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU Linz), Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt (AAU), Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Technische Universität Graz (TU Graz), and Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU Wien)
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Details In Austria, leading scientists in the field of AI have joined forces and created the Cluster of Excellence (CoE) “Bilateral Artificial Intelligence: Discovering the Next Dimension of AI”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. The vision is to educate a new generation of top-quality AI scientists with a holistic understanding of symbolic and sub-symbolic AI methods. Combining these two worlds is shaping up to be the next big game changing development! The CoE “Bilateral AI” is currently looking for the brightest minds in this field, offering PhD and Postdoc positions, with several exciting opportunities still available.

CosmicAI Postdoctoral Fellow — LLMs/Generative AI

UT Austin, Texas
Deadline: 2025-05-01 | Apply

Details The NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins (CosmicAI) seeks highly qualified candidates (within three years of the award of their PhD) for a postdoctoral position with the Explorable Universe research group.

This postdoctoral fellow position will perform research with the Explorable Universe team on developing next-generation generative AI copilots and agents to aid astronomy research, inclusive of text and/or multimodal foundational models. Successful candidates will be appointed within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin (UT Austin) and co-supervised by the team of Greg Durrett, Jessy Li, and Matthew Lease.

DSTrain - MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships in Computational and Natural Sciences

University of Oslo, Norway
Deadline: 2025-04-06 | Apply

Details The DSTrain programme will facilitate ground-breaking research by emphasising interaction between data science, computational science, natural sciences, and technology. The postdoctoral fellows will be integrated in research groups across scientific disciplines where there is an urgent need for computationally skilled researchers. The research groups provide excellent research environments and supervision enabling world-class research, innovation and digital infrastructure, models for interdisciplinary collaboration and training in research, including computational and transferable skills. The DSTrain program also includes a range of cross-sectorial secondments opportunities.

Other Academic Opportunities

Industry Opportunities

Industrial Metaverse Intern

Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Deadline: 2025-04-04 | Apply

Details The successful applicants will work with our current team to conduct high-quality fundamental research and apply the findings to problems that arise in a wide range of Nokia applications. Likely focus areas include:

-3D modeling and visual computing
-Systems for industrial monitoring and analytics

Research Scientist – Generative AI

Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Deadline: 2025-06-13 | Apply

Details Your focus will be on Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), multi-modal AI, AI reasoning, and AI applications in robotics within a dynamic industrial research environment. This role offers the opportunity to develop and prototype innovative systems, showcase your research breakthroughs, and publish your findings in leading conferences and journals.

Bell Labs Machine Learning and AI Intern

Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Deadline: 2025-04-04 | Apply

Details As a Machine Learning and AI Intern student at Nokia Bell Labs, you will be a part of the Statistics and Data Science Research Group, working on Machine Learning and AI projects with a focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, Generative AI, and AI in robotics in an exciting industrial research environment. This role will give you the opportunity to gain valuable skills and experience in a dynamic team. You will have the opportunity to build and prototype systems to demonstrate research innovations and publish research in premier conferences and journals.

Applied AI/ML Research Solutions Intern

Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey
Deadline: 2025-04-04 | Apply

Details Nokia Bell Labs is Nokia's world-renowned research arm. It has invented many of the foundational technologies that underpin information and communications networks and all digital devices and systems. This research has produced nine Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards, and numerous other awards.

The AI Accelerator Group at Nokia Bell Labs is developing state-of-the-art artificial intelligence-based solutions focused on using computer vision and natural language processing to understand physical spaces in space-time, exploring generalizable learning models and optimization techniques for real-time performance.

This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.