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Student Assistent: AI Development & Test Engineer

8 to 20 hours per week (in consultation)
#### Profile: Software Developer with AI and IT background Are you a student familiar with AI? Can you build chatbots using AI and do you have some knowledge of information security? Then this vacancy might be interesting for you.

Utrecht University (UU) is accelerating the development of policies around the use of AI in education and the creation of safe AI systems, tools, and platforms. To support the AI in Education program, we are looking for a student assistant with a hands-on mentality, who enjoys building things and has a strong interest in privacy, security, and Responsible AI.

The activities include:

Organization, support, and collaboration

  • Supporting AI compliance team education sessions: scheduling, arranging rooms and hybrid meetings, taking minutes.
  • Maintaining the MS Teams site of the UU AI compliance team education and the members list.
  • Monitoring NPM in the area of AI compliance.
  • Willingness to contribute to AI student ambassador initiatives.

Compliance support

  • Carrying out the allow-listing process for low-risk narrow AI tools together with, among others, privacy officers and information security, in accordance with the UU AI Veritas process.

Development of AI tools

  • Building chatbots/AI agents using Hugging Face, GitHub, Python, n8n, Azure, etc., to explore and test the possibilities of AI in the educational domain.
  • Applying AI evaluation routines for QA of chatbots.
  • Contributing to the development of QA protocols for AI systems and tools.

What we ask: - Good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written. - Experience with AI software development. - Experience working with MS Teams. - Available for at least 4 to 5 months; extension is possible in case of good performance. - Working hours can be determined in consultation, and partial remote work is possible.

What we offer: - Salary in accordance with the applicable UU rates for student assistants. - Collaboration with internal UU staff from the ITS department and faculties. - A very educational working environment based in the university’s administrative building, in a fun team with other student assistants.

Contact: - Dr. Ing. Yvette Roman, AI Governance Officer Education. For more information or to submit your application by email: y.g.roman@uu.nl

The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been found. The start date can be immediate, subject to mutual agreement.