AI Research Assistant for National Security ML

UM01 University of Maryland College Park (UMCP); United States; On-site; USD 32,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland is seeking an AI Research Assistant to support the DE Bioeffects project. You will attend project meetings at the request of the PI, co-PIs, and AI/ML lead, and may be asked to take technical notes during meetings.

You will maintain a collaborative work style and help the AI/ML lead solve problems with the large interdisciplinary research team.

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree program in CS, data science, NLP, information science or related field.
• Hands-on experience building retrieval and language-model systems, including end-to-end retrieval and model fine-tuning.
• Must be able to obtain a US security clearance; clearance investigation required.

Responsibilities

• Attend project meetings as requested by PI, co-PIs, and AI/ML lead and assist with technical notes.
• Collaborate with a large interdisciplinary team to advance AI/ML backed sensemaking for the repository.
• Develop and refine AI/ML solutions using Python, ML toolkits, and standard workflows.

Skills

Python

Linux

Git

PyTorch

Hugging Face Transformers

sentence-transformers

Education

CS/Data Science program

Tools

FastAPI

Flask

Neo4j

NetworkX

Job description

The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland is seeking an AI Research Assistant to support the DE Bioeffects project. You will attend project meetings at the request of the PI, co-PIs, and AI/ML lead, and may be asked to take technical notes during meetings.

You will maintain a collaborative work style and help the AI/ML lead solve problems with the large interdisciplinary research team.