The Faculty of Engineering and Mathematics at Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) seeks to fill two positions as Research Associate in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) within the framework of the research project 'FH-Kooperativ 2-2023: Cognitive Edge Computing for Multi-Sensor Applications with Sparse Data and High Latency Requirements' (Edge4SparseML), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The research project's aim is to develop a method toolbox to efficiently run AI/ML procedures on resource-limited hardware for real-time applications. Based on the toolbox, it intends to investigate automated methods to explore the design space of suitable AI/hardware combinations in terms of a hardware/AI co-design. Particular emphasis lies on industrial applications with high latency requirements, considering both the complete chain as a linear process from modelling to inference and the repercussions of the choice of possible hardware configurations on the original modelling.