Student Assistant with a focus on Machine Learning or Data Science (m/f/d) up to 19 hours per week

• The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is an internationally respected
• research institute of the Max Planck Society (MPG) with currently two research departments,
• several research groups, and a graduate school. At the MPIWG, around 150 scholars from all over
• the world investigate the sciences past and present, working together on a collective,
• collaborative, and transdisciplinary basis. The MPIWG is renowned worldwide as a hub for
• reflection on the role of the sciences in politics and society. It is located in southwestern Berlin,
• close to the campus of the Free University Berlin and other research institutions.
• The Digital Humanities team seeks to appoint a
• **Student Assistant with a focus on Machine Learning or Data Science (m/f/d)**
• **up to 19 hours per week**
• starting October 1st 2026.
• The Digital Humanities team in the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is
• composed of 4 digital humanities researchers working on numerous projects across the different
• departments and research groups of the institute.
• The Digital Humanities team aims to conduct cutting-edge digital and computational humanities
• scholarship while utilizing established standards for data representation and exchange. We strive
• to stay on the frontier of integrating digital humanities, data science, and software development.
• Projects are expected to build on and contribute to a common digital research infrastructure,
• producing sustainable digital research outputs that can be reused and shared openly.
• **Your responsibilities:**

• supporting digital humanities projects by implementing computational or machine

learning methods

• possibility to contribute in archiving and digital preservation of legacy data and digital

• projects, including documentation and contributing to the development of interactive
• digital research software for digital humanities

• possibility to contribute in applying data science tools to analyze existing data sets, e.g.

• bibliometric studies, images, text, as well as assisting in data mining and network analysis
• research

• possibility of coding and contributing to various digital humanities projects that range

• from building databases, data pipelines, utilizing machine learning methods, to generating
• data visualizations for historical insights on the basis of either textual or visual materials
• **Your profile:**

• student in digital humanities, computer science, data science, machine learning or a

• related discipline currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s program (in at least your second
• semester) or a Master’s program (first or second semester) at a university in Germany

• language skills (in English and/or German)
• basic familiarity of Digital Humanities technologies for digital transcriptions and related

software (such as Transkribus, eScriptorium, TEI-XML)

• optional: relational database management, semantic web technologies (such as RDF and

• SPARQL); coding and software development experience, such as Python or Javascript;interest in data and machine learning pipelines; interest in the history of alchemy or data
• ethics

• the ability to work both independently and in a team, good communication skills, a

talent for organization

• an interest in research and enjoyment of work in an international research institution

**We offer:**

• remuneration at the student employee rates of the MPG support for junior scientists and

• scholars: currently **€ 16.50 per hour for Bachelor’s students and € 17.17 for Master’s**
• **students** who can demonstrate completion of their Bachelor’s degree

• working hours to align with your studies
• work in an international setting with staff and guests from more than forty countries
• close contact with all research and research-support units and the opportunity for direct,

personal dialogue

• promotion of your professional interests and research interests
• use of the on-site reference library
• access to the wide range of training courses offered by the MPG’s Planck Academy
• occupational health management: weekly in-house yoga classes; regular information on

courses offered by our partner health insurance companies

• a student representative for equal opportunities.

• The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer that strives to foster an inclusive
• workplace. As an institute of the MPG, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
• supports a working community for all free from discrimination and harassment. We explicitly
• encourage applications from qualified individuals who belong to groups that are often
• underrepresented in the workplace due to age, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender,
• nationality, race, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or religion.
• Please follow the links to find out more about the MPIWG’s policies on gender equality and
• hiring practices for people with disabilities, as well as Germany’s anti-discrimination laws as
• outlined in the General Equal Treatment Act.
• **Your application:**
• Please submit your application with complete documents, preferably without a photograph,
• through our application portal. Include cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of qualifications (in a
• single PDF file) and relevant employment references if available(in a single PDF file).
• <https://recruitment.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/position/36470787>
• Applications must be received by August 23rd 2026 **(23:59 CEST).**
• Please note that we can only accept electronic applications submitted through the portal.
• For any questions about the position or the application process, please contact Sarah Lang
• [[email hidden]].
• Further information on the MPIWG can be found at <https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/>.