Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informationstechnologie SIT | Germany | 64xxx Darmstadt | Student job | Part time - flexible | Published since: 20.08.2026 on stepstone.de
Student assistant for the project VisPer
The Fraunhofer Society is one of the world's leading organisations for application-oriented research. 74 institutes develop groundbreaking technologies for our economy and society – more precisely: 30 000 people from technology, science, administration and IT. You know, who comes to Fraunhofer wants and can change something – for themselves, for us and the markets of today and tomorrow. The Fraunhofer Institute for Safe Information Technology SIT is one of the leading research and development facilities for cyber security in Germany and Europe and is part of ATHENE, the national research centre for applied cyber security. ATHENE is a cooperation between the Fraunhofer Society and the TU Darmstadt, the High School Darmstadt and the Goethe University Frankfurt. Our common goal is to make the world of tomorrow safer. .
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Your tasks • Your profile • What we offer
Implementation and application of computer vision approaches, including: object recognition (e.g. by means of YOLO, RT-DETRv2 and others) Image classification based on common architectures (e.g. Transformer: ViT, Swin, DeiT, CNNs: ResNet, EfficientNet, GNNs: GraphConv, GAT) Image description, visual question response and multimodal search using Vision-Language models (VLMs) Image segmentation (e.g. using SAM-3, DINO-3 etc.) Interactive and explainable classification systems (RISE, GradCAM, EigenCAM, Integrated Gradients, ViT Shapley etc.)
Implementation and implementation of experiments in the field of machine learning (ML): Clean, prepare, divide, visualize, if necessary crawling and scraping data Apply (implementation of common ML methods, such as hyperparameter optimization, binary/multi-class/multi-label classification, ensemble method, etc.) Evaluation / benchmarking based on standardized metrics in the context of ML (e.g. Accuracy, BAC, Brier, mAP, ROC, AUC, etc.) and function tests
Development of UIs and WebApps using common frameworks (fastHTML, Streamlit, Gradio, Svelte, Flask / FastAPI) Cooperation in publicly funded and/or directly funded projects
Study of Computer Science, Mathematics or a related subject with focus on machine learning and ideally computer vision Knowledge in ML: Confidence with various architectures of neural networks (especially vision transformers and CNNs) Confidence with basic concepts and concepts in ML (in particular classified, hyperparameter optimization, fine tuning, model evaluation)
Knowledge in Python is absolutely necessary and tested in the interview Ability to implement methods and procedures independently from scientific publications Advantage: Knowledge and experience in cyber security Willingness to face new challenges Embossed Analytical Thinking
Attractive remuneration: €18.06 / hour for Bachelor students and €18.78 / hour for Master students Flexible working hours that can be easily combined with your studies An inspiring working environment with the latest infra structure The opportunity to gain practical experience and to establish valuable contacts in research The monthly working time is 40 to 80 hours, depending on the arrangement
Location
 | Fraunhofer-Institut für Sichere Informationstechnologie SIT | |
| 64295 Darmstadt | ||
| Germany |
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