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Research Associate (Postdoc) for IT Law Research & Contract Management

Fraunhofer SIT

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts in a national and inter­national context | Legal support for internal governance structures | Research in the field of IT law, particularly in the areas of data protection and cybersecurity research law

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Master's Thesis: Explainability of Transformer Models in Authorship Verification

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementation of one or more current models for authorship verification | Research and implementation of a novel explainability method for transformer models in the context of AV.

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Research Associate for Cyber­security Training in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Development of training and educational content for continuing education in the field of cybersecurity | Participation in the implementation of training and educational programs for continuing education

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Research Associate iOS Security

Fraunhofer SIT

Join us in researching innovative methods for iOS security and combine systematic vulnerability analysis in industrial projects with the development of automated analyses for our Appicator analysis framework

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Research Associate for Software Analysis

Fraunhofer SIT

Work with newly developed tools and perform in-depth static software analyses, for example in the area of native iOS apps

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Research Associate in the Field of Reverse Engineering

Fraunhofer SIT

You will work at a renowned, inter­nationally leading institute in the field of cybersecurity | You will work on innovative research and development projects with partners from industry, government, and other research institutions

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Research Associate in IT-Forensics in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Collaboration with inter­nationally renowned scientists | Contributions to the transfer of research and development results into real-world applications

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Research Associate for AI & Cyber­security in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Conducting research and development projects in the field of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, such as issues relating to AI security and new security solutions using AI | Close cooperation with leading companies and public institutions in the region

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Research Associate for IT Product Security in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementation of research and development projects in the field of IT product and supply chain security | Contributions to the transfer of research and development results into real-world applications

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Research Associate in Cyber­security of Energy Systems in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Conducting research and development projects in the field of cybersecurity, particularly for the protection of critical infrastructure such as in the energy sector | Close cooperation with leading companies and public institutions in the region

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Research Associate for Secure Software Development in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Collaboration in applied research projects in the field of software security | Development and research of automated methods for the detection, analysis, and verification of vulnerabilities

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Research Associate in the Field of Cyber­security in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Conducting research and development projects in the field of cybersecurity and data protection | Close cooperation with leading companies and public institutions in the region

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Social Media Manager

Fraunhofer SIT

Management and conceptual development of existing social media channels (LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky, YouTube) | Establishment of TikTok and Instagram social media channels

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Master's Thesis: Attacking Current Backdoor Detection Methods

Fraunhofer SIT

Researching and implementing novel machine learning approaches that enhance the security of LLMs | Self-critical evaluation of the obtained results.

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Master's Thesis: Detection and Segmentation of Suggestive Clothing

Fraunhofer SIT

Building a dataset for object detection or segmentation | Using pre-trained state-of-the-art models like SAM 3 to generate annotations.

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Master's Thesis: Detection of Suggestive Poses and Facial Expressions

Fraunhofer SIT

Creation of a dataset for the classification of poses and facial expressions | Implementation of new approaches for the detection of erotic and pornographic facial expressions.

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Master's Thesis: Fair and Balanced Age Estimation through Dynamic Group Training

Fraunhofer SIT

Researching and compiling information on a current topic in the field of machine learning | Researching and implementing novel machine learning and computer vision approaches.

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Master's Thesis: Robustness of Authorship Verification against Adversarial Obfuscation

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementing and evaluating attacks for style obfuscation (paraphrasing, synonym replacement, translations, LLM rewriting) | Researching and implementing robust AV methods (e.g., adversarial training, contrastive learning).

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Master's Thesis: Modelling Approaches and Loss Design for Precise Age Estimation

Fraunhofer SIT

Researching and structuring literature on a current topic in the field of Machine Learning | Researching and implementing novel machine learning and computer vision approaches.

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Master's Thesis: Localisation of Safety Neurones in Text2Image Models

Fraunhofer SIT

Researching and implementing novel machine learning approaches that enhance the security of LLMs | Self-critical evaluation of the findings

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Student Assistant - Secure Software Engineering in Heilbronn

Fraunhofer SIT

Support in research projects in the field of secure software development | Programming and debugging tasks (e.g., in Java or C/C++) | Participation in the analysis and preparation of research results

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Student Assistant Windows Binary Fuzzing

Fraunhofer SIT

Evaluation of existing binary fuzzers on Windows binaries | Expanding program corpora for further evaluation of Windows binary fuzzers

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Student Assistant for Communication Design (m/f/d)

Fraunhofer SIT

Design of IT security solutions | Analysis of user behavior and conducting usability tests

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Student Assistant Backend Development of Security/Hacking Tools

Fraunhofer SIT

Further development of the backend of our existing innovative security analysis tools with Java | Implementation of backend functionalities of the vulnerability scanner in an agile development process

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Student Assistant Backend Development of Security/Hacking Tools - C/C++

Fraunhofer SIT

You use existing fuzzers to test popular software on x86, including Firefox, Chrome, and Adobe Reader. You extend existing fuzzers by implementing the latest techniques from current scientific publications.

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Student Assistant Frontend Development

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementation of web-based user interfaces for security tools | Collaboration on a static and dynamic code scanner for academic research and industrial licenses

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Student Assistant for the VisPer Project

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementation and application of computer vision approaches, including: Object detection (e.g., using YOLO, RT-DETRv2, etc.) | Implementation and execution of experiments in the field of Machine Learning (ML): Clean, prepare, split, visualize data, if necessary, crawl and scrape data

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Student Assistant for Continuing Education Courses in IT Forensics and AI Security

Fraunhofer SIT

Update course materials thematically or create new materials on predefined topics: presentation slides, screencast videos, WBTs | Compile new forensic data sets: research or create images, videos and text corpora

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Student Assistant for Excel Programming

Fraunhofer SIT

Development and maintenance of VBA macros to automate our Excel-based financial tools | Support in optimizing data processing, calculation workflows and reporting functions

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Student Assistant in the Field of LLM Security

Fraunhofer SIT

Development of methods to enhance the security of LLMs. A major focus is on defending against common attacks such as backdoor attacks and associated jailbreaks.

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Working Student in the Field of Computer Vision

Fraunhofer SIT

Implementation and application of computer vision approaches, including: Application of methods from safety-critical areas such as visual age estimation | Development of UIs and web apps using common frameworks (fastHTML, Streamlit, Gradio, Svelte, Flask/FastAPI)

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Working Student in the Field of NLP

Fraunhofer SIT

Detection of AI-generated text content and assignment of which LLM generated which text | Evaluation of ML models using standardized metrics (ROC, AUC, confusion matrices, etc.)

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System Administrator / System Technician for Cyber­security

Fraunhofer SIT

As a systems technician for cybersecurity, you will play a central role in the technical implementation of our ATHENE research projects.

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Research Associate in the Field of Cyber­security

TU Darmstadt

Research on current cybersecurity topics in an inter­national and excellence-oriented research environment

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Final Thesis Topics in Cyber­security

Fraunhofer SIT

We are looking for motivated students interested in writing their thesis in cybersecurity. We have multiple ongoing research projects in network and routing security, privacy, protocol fuzzing, internet security etc. We welcome students coming to us with their own original ideas as well. For an overview of our past work see our group's page https://www.sit.fraunhofer.de/en/cad/ If you are interested send us an email at lehre@sit.tu-darmstadt.de with your transcript and CV.

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Research Associate in Cyber­security

Fraunhofer SIT

Collaboration in publicly funded projects and/or projects commissioned directly by industry partners | Concept development and project management tasks | Preparation of project reports and scientific publications ...

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Research Associate - Software Security & Program Analysis (anywhere in Germany)

Fraunhofer SIT

You will work on applied research projects in the field of software security in cooperation with our partners in academic institutions, industry, and public administration | Development and scientific evaluation of new methods for detecting, analyzing, verifying, and fixing software vulnerabilities

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