LLM Agents and Semantic Data Processing (m/f/d)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – The University of the Helmholtz Association In dialogue with society, KIT develops solutions for major challenges – from climate change, energy transition and sustainable use of natural resources to artificial intelligence, technological sovereignty and demographic change. As the University in the Helmholtz Association, KIT combines scientific excellence from knowledge gain to application orientation under one roof – and is thus in a unique position to advance this transformation. As a university of excellence, KIT offers its more than 10,000 employees and its 22 800 students outstanding opportunities to shape a sustainable and resilient future. KIT – Science for Impact. We are looking for the Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) from 01.04.2026 for 2 years Senior Consultant (m/d) LLM agents and semantic data processing in the material sciences

As part of your activity, you will design and implement LLM-based agent systems that process material science data in a structured manner and provide data and agent architectures for the integration of heterogeneous sources and for knowledge derivation. You develop semantic representations such as ontologies, knowledge graphs or RDF/SPARQL models, couple large language models to databases, simulation data and formal models and implement the necessary logic for data access, provenance, reproducibility and traceability. The scientific documentation, evaluation and publication of your research results in international journals and conferences completes your task field.

You have a completed academic degree (Diplom (Uni) / Master) in Computer Science, Physics, Material Science, Data Science or a related subject, ideally with completed doctorate Very good knowledge of software development (especially Python, JavaScript/TypeScript) Experience with LLMs beyond prompt engineering, e.g. Tool Use, Agent Control, Condition Management, Retrieval, Workflow Integration solid knowledge of data models, APIs and structured data processing. Ability to independent scientific work and interdisciplinary cooperation

Part of the only German university of excellence with large-scale national research and work on current research and teaching for our future under excellent working conditions in an international environment. Start professionally with targeted training as well as wide-ranging further training offers. Benefit from flexible working time models (Gleitzeit, Homeoffice), various sports and leisure activities as well as child and holiday care services. We also offer a grant to the BW Job Ticket, amounting to 25 €/month and a versatile offer in different menses. We aim to achieve the most uniform possible occupation of jobs with employees (w/m/d) and would therefore be particularly pleased with women's applications. In the case of the same suitability, people with difficulty are recognised. .