Work time
part-time
Start date
Schnellstmöglich
Employment period
limited
Application deadline (in weeks)
24.06.2026
Deployment location Charité
BIH Berlin Mitte
Jobcode
7185
Working at Charité
The Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) is dedicated to biomedical translation. Its mission is to translate research findings into personalized prevention, diagnostics, and therapy to help patients and provide science with effective tools for this purpose. With approximately 750 employees, the BIH focuses on translational method development, precision medicine, regenerative therapies, and biomedical data science. Through close integration with Charité, excellent research, platforms, and programs enable accelerated transfer to clinical application. In doing so, the BIH forms strong partnerships and promotes innovation-oriented medicine both nationally and internationally.
The QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité develops and implements new approaches to ensure that biomedical research is conducted in a trustworthy manner, delivers useful results, and meets ethical standards.
As a student assistant you will work with the technical leader and the project leader of the MERIT project (AG Kip) to assist with the quality assurance and further development of tools designed to support robust research assessment (MERIT). With such tools we can support research assessment with evidence-based criteria and structured assessment. We use these tools to evaluate and develop targeted solutions to improve research assessment.
Overview of the position
- Manually performing and documenting backbox testing of new features and to detect bugs and unexpected behavior
- Assisting with writing and maintaining automated test
- Assisting in writing of documentation (user manuals and data base annotations)
- Assisting in data analysis and visualizations for the project evaluation
What we are looking for
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Attention to detail, and the ability to perform repetitive tasks in a consistently high-quality manner
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A willingness to learn about software testing and strategies for improving transparency and reproducibility in software development
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Experience with Django framework and Python programming languages (basic skills sufficient)
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Sufficient English language skills
Desirable skills include:
- Prior experience with software testing or development, data science or visualizations is beneficial, but not required
Charité offers you
- Flexible working hours and a centrally located workplace
- The opportunity to work professionally within a motivated, friendly, and interdisciplinary team
- A varied and challenging role with a high degree of autonomy and the chance to shape your own work
- Certified as a family-friendly university and family-friendly company since 2007
Information regarding the position
- Pay scale is TV Stud III. You can find the labor agreement here
- The hourly wage across the Charité is 15.08 Euro
- Working hours: 60 hours per month
- Application deadline:
- Reference number: 7185
Application
Everyone is welcome at the Charité, regardless of age, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, ethnic or social background. We are committed to equal opportunities and inclusion.
For data protection reasons, we only accept applications via our application portal. The contact details provided below are intended solely for inquiries.
Apply nowIf you have questions, please contact:
or carolyn.capelouto@bih-charite.de
More information
Data protection information
The Charité would like to point out that personal data is stored and processed at various locations at the Charité premises (e.g. specialty department, personnel representatives, HR department) as part of and for the purposes of the application process. Furthermore, the data may be transferred or processed within the group and to external bodies (e.g. authorities) to protect legitimate interests. By submitting your application, you agree to our data protection policy and terms of use for application procedures, which you can find here.
Additional information
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin makes its personnel decisions based on suitability, ability and professional performance. The Charité aims to increase the proportion of women in management positions and therefore strongly encourages women to apply. Women with equivalent qualifications will be given priority within the scope of legal possibilities. Applications from people with a migration background who meet the recruitment requirements are expressly encouraged. Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preference. A police good-conduct certificate, in some cases an extended good-conduct certificate, is required at the time of recruitment. Unfortunately, application documents can be returned only if a sufficiently stamped envelope is enclosed. Any incurred travel expenses cannot be reimbursed.