Security-Cleared Computational Linguist (NLP/AI)

University of Maryland; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland is seeking a Computational Linguist to advance NLP, AI/ML, and OSINT solutions for national security. You will contribute to government-sponsored projects addressing autonomy, decision support, cyber operations, and information warfare while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree, demonstrate research excellence, and be eligible for US security

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in a relevant field required.
• Evidence of sound scholarly production.
• Perform R&D at a level comparable to Assistant Research Scientist.
• Evidence of sound scholarly production (e.g., conference presentations, published journal articles, published code, published datasets, technical reports).
• 5 years of research experience.
• Background in and demonstrated proficiency with computational linguistics/natural language processing (NLP).
• Experience utilizing AI/ML tools (including LLMs) and supporting technologies for text data analysis.

Skills

Python for NLP

Microsoft Office

Troubleshooting

Multi-tasking

Analytical thinking

AI/ML tools

Pandas

NumPy

BeautifulSoup

scikit-learn

spaCy

transformers

PyTorch

LLMs

Project leadership

Education

Doctoral degree

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

BeautifulSoup

Requests

scikit-learn

spaCy

transformers

PyTorch

Job description

The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence & Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland is seeking a Computational Linguist to advance NLP, AI/ML, and OSINT solutions for national security. You will contribute to government-sponsored projects addressing autonomy, decision support, cyber operations, and information warfare while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Applicants should hold a doctoral degree, demonstrate research excellence, and be eligible for US security