AI-Ready Publication Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University; Gaithersburg (MD); On-site; USD 96,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a PREP Research Associate. This role supports collaboration with NIST and develops AI-ready publication tools for the Cybersecurity Framework and other publications.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s in information systems or computer science, experience building information systems, and programming skills in Python, C, and Java, with strong technical writing and research methodology expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Experience building and testing information systems.
• Experience in a research environment.
• Experience with Python, C, and Java.
• Skilled in technical writing, research methodology development, creative problem solving.
• Knowledge of markdown, retrieval models, language models, natural language processing, database administration practices aplus.

Responsibilities

• Investigating emerging AI-ready publication methods at other research institutions.
• Investigating emerging technologies, best practices, supporting processes, and KPIs that could transform the NIST publication process into one that supports both human readers and AI agents.
• Designing options for a publication system and workflow optimized for external AI agents.
• Identifying options for public-facing tools to support external practitioners that implement NIST cybersecurity and privacy publications like the Cybersecurity Framework.
• Designing a possible pilot study to assess the feasibility of the proposed AI-ready publication approach and tools.
• Presenting findings and the proposed approach at internal meetings.
• Ensuring that findings and documentation have been archived or transmitted to the larger organization.

Skills

Technical writing

Research methodology

Creative problem solving

Markdown knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems/Computer Science

Tools

Python

C

Java

Markdown

Job description

Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a PREP Research Associate. This role supports collaboration with NIST and develops AI-ready publication tools for the Cybersecurity Framework and other publications.

Ideal candidates have a bachelor’s in information systems or computer science, experience building information systems, and programming skills in Python, C, and Java, with strong technical writing and research methodology expertise.