Chargé.e de mission IA Admin — EPFL

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Mission

EPFL, the Swiss Federal School of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and is part of the world's top 20 academic rankings. EPFL has over 6,000 staff members who support the School's three main missions: education, research and innovation. The campus offers an exceptional working environment in the heart of a community of more than 16,000 people, including nearly 12,000 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different nationalities.

The Directorate of Information Systems (DSI) is responsible for the implementation of EPFL's digital strategy: IT strategy and master plan, digitalisation of business processes, security, central infrastructure, core applications and coordination with the departments of the faculties.

As part of the IA Admin's deployment to the Vice-President of Operations (VPO), we are looking for a task force motivated by artificial intelligence, innovation and digital transformation of administrative processes.

Attached to the VPO-SI Head of Service — in charge of information systems for central services — you will work closely with the trades (Central Services), the teams of the DSI and the VPS, responsible for the deployment of the AI Admin at institutional level.

This position is aimed in particular at a person at the beginning of his or her career, who has graduated from a high school (university, EPF or HES), wishing to put his or her technical skills at the service of concrete cases of use, visible and useful to the institution.

Your mission will be to support the identification, prototyping and implementation of artificial intelligence solutions for administrative processes: to understand the needs of users, to propose solutions paths and to quickly translate them into mockups, prototypes or POCs. Once the use cases have been validated, you will participate in their development and integration into a secure environment, focusing on EPFL's internal infrastructure.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• exchange with trades to understand their processes and needs
• identify concrete and high added value AI use cases
• formalize requirements in the form of framing notes, user stories or specifications
• create mockups and prototypes using IA-assisted coding tools
• developing solutions and proof of concept
• test the integration of IA models, APIs, automation tools or RAG-type approaches
• collaborate with ISD teams to ensure security, quality and integration of solutions
• document the solutions achieved, the choices made and the recommendations for evolution

Profile

Master's degree in computer science, engineering, data science or equivalent technical field.

First achievements related to AI, software development or automation: professional experience, internship, academic project, master's work, hackathon, open source contribution or personal project.

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of genAI technologies: LLM, RAG architectures, AI agents, workflow orchestration, rapid engineering
• Python development and integration of API-based solutions (LangChain, n8n or equivalent)
• Aisance with the tools of rapid prototyping and coding assisted by IA (Claude Code, Cursor, Washable, Bolt, Replit, ...)
• Using a versioning tool (Git or equivalent)
• French C1 and English B2 minimum, both in writing and oral
• Sensitivity to application security and access management issues

Assets

• Business analysis: process mapping, requirements engineering, cost-benefit analysis, ROI modelling
• Agile Project Management Methods (Scrum, Kan)