Open positions

DHLAB research activities are at the intersection of several domains (historical document processing, historical geographical information systems, interaction design, mathematics, social modelling, big data, etc.) and the lab welcomes people with different backgrounds.

We currently have four positions available. Please submit your application via the official portal indicated for each position.

Machine Learning Research Engineer in NLP and Media Mining

We are seeking a Machine Learning / NLP Research Engineer to join our Impresso team.

You will join an active, collaborative development effort and help consolidate and apply NLP pipelines to large-scale multilingual historical newspaper and radio archives, bridging research, engineering, and digital humanities. If you are excited about modern NLP pipelines, multilingual text and media mining, and building tools to explore past media at scale, we’d love to hear from you!

  • Your profile: 1–3 years of experience as an ML engineer or NLP researcher, with an MSc/PhD in NLP, Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Apply by: 8 Dec 2025. 
  • Start date: 15 Jan 2026 or 1 Feb 2026
  • Location: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Duration: 13 months, full time
  • Full description & application: follow this link.

Update 7.12: The position is currently not available on the EPFL website but will be reopened as soon as possible, in accordance with the published application deadline (8.12).

PhD Candidate in AI and Digital Art History

We are seeking a PhD candidate who will investigate the multimodal propagation of motifs in collections of Tarot decks and in related textual and visual corpora. Strong competence in machine vision, in particular with visual transformers and related technologies, is required. Knowledge of art history is considered an important asset.

  • Apply by: 08.12.2025
  • Start date: 01.02.2026
  • Activity rate: 100 %
  • Contract type: Fixed term contract
  • Duration: 4 years.

More information is available here.

PostDoctoral Researcher

As part of a SNSF project, the candidate will develop an infrastructure for analysing large collections of Tarot decks and related textual and visual corpora. He will collaborate with a PhD student working on this topic as well as with the rest of the lab’s research team. The objective is to build a robust and reusable infrastructure for large-scale analysis of small visual motifs, which will serve as the backbone of the present project and can be generalised to other similar research endeavours.

  • Start date : 01.02.2026 
  • Activity rate: 50 %  
  • Contract type: Fixed term contract
  • Duration: 1 year renewable twice.

More information is available here.

Scientific Assistant

This part-time position (30%) is part of the CROSS 2026 project “Weaponising Culture Online: Detecting and Interpreting Narrative Manipulation in Digital Heritage”, a collaboration between EPFL (DHLAB) and UNIL.
 
The project aims to detect and analyze cultural manipulation in Wikipedia and other digital platforms using natural language processing (NLP) techniques and large language models (LLMs).
 
The assistant will contribute to the development, evaluation, and documentation of a multilingual prototype based on transformer models.
 
  • Start date: 01.01.2026
  • Activity rate : 30 %
  • Contract type: CDD
  • Duration: 12 months
More information is available here.