The newly established Collaborative Research Centre “Historical and Transcultural Narratology” (TRR 427) investigates premodern (ancient, medieval, early modern) narratives from different cultural contexts, with the aim of systematically and comparatively examining the dynamics and functions of storytelling in past contexts. The Collaborative Research Centre consists of 19 sub-projects across 16 different disciplines and is based at the universities of Bochum, Bonn, and Freiburg (Germany). Within the DH sub-project “Methods Lab/Embedded Research Project: Premodern Slavic as a Testing Ground for Digital Narrative Methodology” (Freiburg location, https://narratology.de/index.php/special-section-r-dh-c/) in conjunction with the Central Data Facility (CDF, https://cdf.uni-freiburg.de/), the following permanent position is to be filled: DH/AI Architect (m/f/d, E13, 100%) The DH/AI Architect position encompasses the following responsibilities: - Developing, testing, and applying digital research and analysis methods for the CRC - Supporting the digital research workflows of the sub-projects (including multilingual NLP) - Independently developing and maintaining research pipelines, e.g., with Jupyter Hub, Galaxy, OpenWebUI - Experimenting with (primarily local and open) LLMs for analysis (including RAG and agentic coding) - Solving NLP and other computational challenges related to the complex linguistic and resource situation of the sub-projects (premodern, non-Western low-resource languages) - Close collaboration with all CRC sub-projects, the Researcher of the Embedded Research Project, other members of the Methods Lab/DH Lab Freiburg, the CRC’s Data Steward (Bonn location), the CRC spokespersons, and the CDF Freiburg - Contributing to publications on digital narratological analysis and digital methodology Your profile: - Completed Master’s degree (preferably PhD) in one of the following fields: Digital Humanities, Philology, Computer Science, Data Science - Strong knowledge of digital approaches to language and text analysis (e.g., in the area of Natural Language Processing, corpus linguistics, computational literary studies) and experience collaborating with philologists - Understanding of the principles of deep learning and the functioning of LLMs - Willingness to work with low-resource languages beyond Western modernity as well as with non-Latin alphabets - Working proficiency in German and English - Advantageous: Track record in digital outputs (e.g., programming scripts, repositories, web corpora, digital editions, etc.), initial experience with agentic coding - Advantageous: Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, R, LaTeX, statistics - Teamwork skills, communication skills, ability to work independently Please send your application documents (cover letter, CV, academic certificates, evidence/presentation of your experience with digital methods and collaboration with philologists, if applicable links to programming outputs, if applicable publication list) in one PDF file (if necessary via cloud link depending on file size) by 31.07.2026 to the PI of the sub-project, Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus ([email protected]). Prof. Rabus is also available for inquiries. The interviews will take place on 07.08.2026 between 2 and 5 pm in Freiburg. -- Prof. Dr. Achim Rabus Slavisches Seminar Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Werthmannstr. 14 79098 Freiburg Germany [email protected] www.slavistik.uni-freiburg.de www.narratology.de www.digitalhumanities.uni-freiburg.de/dh-zertifikat/ +49 761/203-8315