HiWi Full-Stack Developer (m/w/d): AI-Powered Medical Knowledge Assistant for Cancer Care

25.04.2025, Studentische Hilfskräfte, Praktikantenstellen, Studienarbeiten

About the Project
The Chair of Software Engineering for Business Applications (sebis) at the Technical University of Munich in collaboration with the Radiation Oncology department of the TUM University Hospital (Klinikum rechts der Isar, MRI) is developing a web-based conversational digital assistant for patients and physicians that provides trustworthy and fact-checked answers for cancer patient cases, traced back to sources in relevant medical guidelines. The project is expected to be carried out in collaboration with Google as part of their Accelerator for Generative AI 2025.

What We're Looking For

■ Experience with front-end development using technologies like React or Vue.js

■ Experience with back-end development using technologies like Express.js, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask or Django and MongoDB or SQL databases

■ Familiarity with integrating APIs or AI/LLM services (e.g., OpenAI API)

■ Familiarity with server/cloud deployment and CI/CD pipelines

■ Good understanding of UI/UX design principles and user-centered development

■ Interest in digital healthcare, medical AI applications, or human-computer interaction

■ Agile mindset

Key Responsibilities and Your Tasks

■ Design and implement intuitive web-based interfaces for patients, physicians and data scientists.

■ Design and implement innovative visual elements such as tracing of AI-generated answers to sources in original PDF documents

■ Integrate existing LLM-based back-end services for information retrieval and fact checking

■ Meet data security, privacy and scalability requirements

Application Requirements

■ Enrollment at TUM, preferably in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related fields

■ Previous experience in web development (e.g., coursework, working positions, personal projects, GitHub portfolio)

What We Offer
We offer flexible working hours (approx. 10-20 hours/week) as part of a working student (HiWi) contract, the opportunity to contribute to an interdisciplinary and high-impact research project helping improve cancer patient treatment, and the potential for involvement in academic publications or user studies. There is also the potential to further develop this work into a Master's thesis or Guided Research Project in coordination with the research team.

How to Apply
Please send your CV and transcript of records to Prof. Florian Matthes: matthes@tum.de

Kontakt: matthes@tum.de