Universität Zürich

Start of employment by arrangement, limited term The Department of Finance (DF) at the University of Zurich pursues academic excellence, high-quality, modern teaching, and social relevance in its four core areas of Banking & Insurance, Corporate Finance, Financial Economics, and Quantitative Finance. With 20 professorships and over 160 employees, the DF is one of the leading finance departments in Europe. Tasks In collaboration with the Teaching Development Department, we are seeking a dedicated individual for the position of Software Engineer with a focus on AI applications and infrastructure (30-50% Department of Finance, 30% Teaching Development). As part of our new engineering team, you will contribute to the development of innovative AI solutions and support pioneering research and teaching projects. We offer a dynamic, international environment with plenty of scope for creative ideas. In this versatile position, you will be...

Functional Genomics Center Zurich Research Software Engineer 80 - 100 % Start of employment immediately or upon agreement, permanent employment The Data Integration Team at the Functional Genomics Center Zurich (FGCZ) develops software and data management solutions for the research projects of its user base of University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. As the biggest technology platform for integrative omics research in Switzerland, the FGCZ supports all areas of life science and medical research. We are looking for a computer scientist with a solid foundation in software engineering and a strong passion for AI-driven innovations. If you are excited to work with the latest open-source technologies and leverage AI techniques to enhance the user experience in bioinformatics, this is your opportunity. Your responsibilities Develop & Innovate: Enhance the cutting-edge B-Fabric system, a platform built on Jakarta EE, PostgreSQL, PrimeFaces,...

Department of Quantitative Biomedicine Ph.D. Position in AI for Precision Oncology 100 % Start of employment will be mutually agreed The Krauthammer lab (at the University of Zurich) and the Wicki Lab (at the University Hospital of Zurich) are seeking a motivated PhD candidate to work on  AI-driven research at the intersection of precision oncology and data science , with a particular focus on leveraging multi-modal clinical data to support personalized cancer treatment decisions. Your responsibilities The primary goal of this position is to develop state-of-the-art machine learning approaches to enhance personalised decision-making in oncology care in the following aspects: Developing predictive models to forecast treatment outcomes and side effects based on retrospective observational clinical data. Implementing counterfactual inference and causal machine learning methods to identify optimal treatments and evaluate treatment...

Department of Economics Predoctoral Fellow in Behavioral & Experimental Economics and Economic Applications of Artificial Intelligence Methods 70 % Start of employment flexible between June and October 2025, temporary The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in developing cutting-edge research, collaborating with Professor Graeber and his co-author network at Harvard and throughout Europe. His current and planned empirical research investigates how complexity influences behavior in real-world applications including finance, consumer choice, and political behavior. The work heavily relies on online and field experiments, analysis of natural language data, and AI applications such as synthetic experiments with LLM agents. Your responsibilities All tasks involve data and require strong coding skills. We hire up to two predocs and tailor each predoc's responsibilities to their background and personal goals. For...

Digital Society Initiative Postdoc «AI Buddy» 80 - 100 % Start of employment immediately or by arrangement, limited The UZH Digital Society Initiative (DSI) is the University of Zurich's competence center for digital change. In collaboration with the Digital Strategy Board, which advises the university management on strategic issues of digitalization, and the UZH Vice Rectorate for Teaching and Learning, we are tackling these challenges with a special focus on UZH students. Tasks There are currently many projects underway at UZH to promote the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching and research. One such project concerns the use of AI to support students at UZH. It is a line of action within the framework of the UZH Digital Charter, i.e. a strategic project of UZH. The "AI Buddy" project aims to create an AI system that accompanies UZH students throughout their studies and offers functions that are intended to...

Chair for Legal Tech, Law and Economics and Public Law (Prof. Dr. Dr. Yoan Hermstrüwer) PhD position in the field of law and human reproduction, with a focus on empirical legal studies and legal data science 80 % Start of employment 01.01.2025, temporary What are the social norms guiding fertility choices? How do prices affect the use of assisted reproduction technologies? How do laws affect the parenthood happiness gap? How can we empirically test highly controversial claims about human reproduction and its normative challenges? The University Research Priority Program (URPP) "Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R" explores rapidly developing medical technologies in the field of human reproduction, the societal challenges they pose and their legal implications. This interdisciplinary positioned URPP is hosted by the Faculty of Law and brings together researchers from six faculties as well as from various disciplines from the humanities, social, medical...