Postdoctoral Researcher: Clinical NLP & Multi-Agent AI

UAG; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Liverpool is seeking a researcher to take day-to-day technical ownership of Work Package 5, Task 5.1 for AIM-SAFE, a Horizon Europe project. You will benchmark and select open-weight Small Language Models for clinical NLP tasks such as entity recognition and drug-interaction reasoning, and design parameter-efficient fine-tuning pipelines within a reproducible MLOps framework.

You will apply quantisation for CPU-feasible NHS deployment, integrate federated learning via the

Job description

The University of Liverpool is seeking a researcher to take day-to-day technical ownership of Work Package 5, Task 5.1 for AIM-SAFE, a Horizon Europe project. You will benchmark and select open-weight Small Language Models for clinical NLP tasks such as entity recognition and drug-interaction reasoning, and design parameter-efficient fine-tuning pipelines within a reproducible MLOps framework.

You will apply quantisation for CPU-feasible NHS deployment, integrate federated learning via the