Swiss Federal Administration
AI

Data Scientist or AI Machine Learning Engineer

Swiss Federal Administration · Bern, BE, CH

Actively hiring Posted 19 days ago

Role overview

As an Innovation Fellow, you will spend a year driving forward a key challenge facing the Federal Administration and independently developing new approaches for more efficient services. You will work on issues with a direct impact, use your tact and sensitivity in dealing with stakeholders, and at the same time benefit from interesting conditions, valuable contacts and real opportunities to shape the future. Find out more about the project in the Defence group and the benefits of the programme on the website.

Starting date: 01.09.2026

Type of employment: temporary

What you'll work on

  • Develop an AI-supported solution (chatbot) for the Defence Group (around 9,000 employees) that reliably answers practical questions from the HR department based on the applicable legal principles
  • Prepare data from various HR areas, structure relevant knowledge sources and make them usable for the model
  • Select suitable models, architectures and tools, implement them as prototypes and evaluate their performance
  • Analyze user needs, test solution ideas and incorporate findings into iterative further development
  • Create conceptual and technical decision-making bases to provide stakeholders with a basis for decision-making

What we're looking for

  • University degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science or a related field
  • Several years of experience in the design and implementation of AI or data-based applications as well as in digital project management
  • Experience in the design and implementation of LLMs or other dialogue-based assistance systems and relevant AI methods
  • Ability to collaborate effectively across organizational and disciplinary boundaries, to integrate different perspectives and to develop solutions together
  • Strong communication skills to prepare complex technical content in a way that is appropriate for the target audience and accessible to non-technical audiences and decision-makers
  • Very good knowledge of at least one Swiss official language and preferably passive knowledge of a second Swiss official language

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Ai Machine Learning Data Science