NLP Research Scientist — National Security AI

University of Maryland; College Park (MD); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Computational Linguist at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) within the University of Maryland, College Park, contributes to government-sponsored projects in NLP, AI/ML, and information operations. The role includes research development, prototyping, and system integration, with potential field deployment to support national security decisions.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree and have strong NLP, Python, and AI/ML experience, plus the ability to

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant field from an accredited institution.
• Strong scholarly record including publications or technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Lead R&D in NLP and related language technologies.
• Prototype, experiment, and integrate systems for text data analysis.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams on government-sponsored projects.

Skills

Python

NLP

AI/ML tools

Data analysis

Team leadership

Education

Doctoral degree

Tools

Pandas

scikit-learn

spaCy

transformers

PyTorch

Job description

The Computational Linguist at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) within the University of Maryland, College Park, contributes to government-sponsored projects in NLP, AI/ML, and information operations. The role includes research development, prototyping, and system integration, with potential field deployment to support national security decisions.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree and have strong NLP, Python, and AI/ML experience, plus the ability to