Gábor Békés and Gábor Kézdi

Gábor Békés and Gábor Kézdi

CEU and U Michigan

Research assistant for Data Analyis with AI

RA for Data Analysis and AI — Educational Tools Development

Position Details

  • Job Title: RA for Data Analysis and AI — Educational Tools Development
  • Department: Department of Economics
  • Location: Vienna/Budapest
  • Start Date: January 20, 2026
  • End Date: April 30, 2026
  • Application Deadline: November 27, 2025
  • Workload: ~10 hours/week (can be extended)
  • Hourly Rate: 15 EUR (gross)

Duties

Tasks:

  1. Development of online education tools, AI applications, dashboards
  2. Code review in Stata, Python and R
  3. AI prompts for content creation and development

Required Skills:

  1. Good coding skills in one or two of {Stata, Python and R}
  2. Good AI prompting skills
  3. Strong background in data analysis / econometrics including descriptive data analysis, regressions, causal inference
  4. Git

Advantageous Experience:

  1. Prediction and supervised machine learning
  2. Web design, HTML, ReactJS, etc
  3. Dashboard design in shiny / streamlit, etc
  4. SQL (especially in R or Python via duckDB or SQLite)
  5. Building end-to-end analytic pipelines with API-calls (Python or R)

Who Can Apply

  • 3rd/4th year BA, MA, PhD students
  • Based on Vienna or can be in Vienna once a week for in-person meeting.

Application Requirements

To apply, submit:

  1. CV
  2. Short motivation letter (400 words) written without AI
  3. Link to code repo like Github
  4. Link to one or more piece(s) of supporting evidence of skills

Why apply?

I hope it’s gonna be a good learning experience for all of us (we alread have a great Phd student and former MA student working on it). It’s clearly an experience that will have valued in most workplaces, too. Should be fun, too.

Contract Information

The contract type will likely be a Service Contract (Werkvertrag).

Important Note for non-EU/EEA Nationals:

This job opportunity mostly closely aligns with a service contract (Werkvertrag) contract type. Please note that securing a service contract in Austria can be challenging for third-country nationals (non-EU/EEA citizens). This includes but is not limited to permit-specific requirements. These regulatory mechanisms and procedures are outside of CEU’s scope of influence. Third-country nationals may apply, but they should be aware of these potential challenges. This contract type requires an invoice. Payment will be made by bank transfer after receiving the invoice. Check the Financial Guidelines, Appendix 04: Supplier Invoice Requirements for details, as required by Austrian financial regulations.

Equal Opportunity Statement: CEU is an equal opportunity employer and values geographical and gender diversity, thus encouraging applications from women and/or other underrepresented groups. Previous training, work experience and/or engagement with matters of equality, diversity and inclusion at the organizational level will be an asset. CEU recognises that personal and family circumstances shape the trajectory of one’s career and working patterns. We encourage applicants to detail periods of leave, part-time work or other such situations in their applications so that the application can be assessed fairly in the context of their circumstances. Any declaration of personal and family circumstances is voluntary and will be handled confidentially and only considered in so far as it impacts on the academic career of an applicant.