Salary grade E 13 TV-L HU. Information on pay grading and the annual salary scale: TV-L HU salary scale.
Expected full-time position, salary grade E 13 TV-L HU (third-party funded, fixed-term until 31 December 2030), at the Department of Romance Literatures and Linguistics (Institut für Romanistik), Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities.
At a glance: Job category: Research staff and teaching staff. Location: Boeckh-Haus, Dorotheenstraße 65, 10117 Berlin. Reference number: DR/164/26. Time limitation: 31 Dec 2030. Job scope: Full-Time (Vollzeit, 39.4 Hours weekly). Number of vacancies: 1.
The position is linked to the research project Every Voice Matters: Scaling Dialectology with Computational Methods.
Start date: The position is scheduled to be filled as of 01 January 2027.
- Completed university degree and a doctorate in linguistics, computational linguistics, computer science or a related field
- Excellent command of Spanish, spoken and written (at least C1 level)
- Excellent command of English, spoken and written (at least C1 level)
- LLM expertise: sound experience in fine-tuning and instruction tuning (e.g. LoRA), as well as in evaluating LLMs and multilingual transformer models
- Linguistic annotation: experience with the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation standards and the CoNLL-U format
- Knowledge of parsing and parser evaluation (e.g. spaCy)
- Corpus curation: experience with collaborative annotation tools
- NLP programming: advanced programming skills in Python with a focus on NLP applications (PyTorch)
- Experience in GPU computing (CUDA, Google Colab, HPC)
- Knowledge of statistical analysis methods for evaluating linguistic variation
- Teaching experience at university level (Bachelor/Master)
- Demonstrated publication record or demonstrable potential in computational linguistics or NLP
- Independent, structured and organised way of working, along with the ability to set priorities
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, plus flexibility in the face of changing project requirements
What would be desirable:
- Experience with (academic-)administrative involvement (e.g. degree programmes)
- Demonstrated expertise in (Spanish) dialectology and morphosyntax
- Knowledge of language technology (ASR) and its integration into annotation pipelines
- Experience with GIS (geographic information systems) for spatial analysis and visualisation of dialectal distribution
- Experience with citizen science or crowdsourcing platforms for data collection
- Previous work on Latin American Spanish varieties
- Good command of German, spoken and written (at least B1 level)
Please send your complete application, referencing the job ID DR/164/26, preferably by e-mail as a single PDF file to [email protected], or to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Romanistik, Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin.
Required application documents: letter of motivation; curriculum vitae; certificates / degree documents; list of publications; list of talks, poster presentations and further training; overview of completed and ongoing research projects; evidence of previous teaching experience; research concept for a planned habilitation thesis.
Application deadline: 16 December 2026.
For questions about the vacancy, Prof. Dr Miriam Bouzouita ([email protected]) is happy to assist.
The Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching, and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. People with an immigration history are specifically encouraged to apply.