Klima braucht Köpfe. Das Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. (PIK) untersucht wissenschaftlich und gesellschaftlich relevante Fragestellungen. Es ist eine der weltweit führenden Forschungseinrichtungen auf seinem Gebiet und bietet Natur- und SozialwissenschaftlerInnen aus aller Welt beste Voraussetzungen für exzellente interdisziplinäre Forschung.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop new features for our annotation platform and other tools
• support researchers that use our platform (analysis or project on-boarding)
• develop and maintain ‘living’ systematic maps (automatically fetch and classify new publications and integrate into our databases)
• integrate living synthesis pipelines into human-in-the-loop processes
  (e.g. Cochrane crowd or NACSOS)
• evaluate and develop automation tools for information extraction
• help us to unlock multi-lingual evidence synthesis
• improve our interactive climateliterature.org platform
• enhance our local database snapshot of OpenAlex with >480M records
• drive your own ideas that accelerate the evidence synthesis process

You are a Bachelor or Master student, enrolled at a German university, and ideally meet the following requirements:
We do not expect you to fulfil all requirements!

• background in computer science, open-source projects, digital engineering, data science or related fields
• good software design skills and experience in building and maintaining data processing pipelines and REST-based systems
• web-based front-end development (esp. typescript, vuejs, webGL)
• experience (theory & practice) with relational databases (esp. PostgreSQL)
• strong interest (ideally experience) in information retrieval, data integration, machine learning/AI, LLMs, knowledge graphs
• excited to use vector databases, e.g. integrating deepset haystack for RAG
• interested in experimenting with solr, postgres, vector stores, graph data-bases, knowledge graphs, huggingface
• interest in data science, clustering, topic models, classification, entity extrac-tion and linking, high-performance compute cluster with high-end GPUs

We will jointly choose tasks based on your expertise and interests. Most important is a strong interest in scientific methods, a solid knowledge foundation (e.g. studying computer science, open source projects) and eagerness to learn. Applicants should reference prior programming experience, ideally linked to specific projects.

We offer:

• chance to be part of an engaged, interdisciplinary team
• insights into a solution-oriented research project with several international partners and with immediate policy relevance
• opportunity to tackle challenges of climate change and our common future
• flexi-time and mobile working (up to 50% of your hours)
• collective pay scheme, benefits, subsidized travel card / Deutschland-Ticket Job
• possibility to write an exciting master’s thesis under our co-supervision closely related to your work in the field of web science

Please apply by 29.03.2026 directly via our application form below this job adver-tisement on our website. The application process remains open until the position is filled.