Research Assistant
Job Description
We are seeking a Research Assistant who will participate in research software development, including ask requirements collection functions design and program coding, and software implementation and maintenance; Perform application and research programming work in natural language processing; Develop, train and evaluate large language models; Develop software systems for data acquisition and annotation; Participate in appropriate software maintenance and support.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities:
- Perform as a member of the development team at Center for Language and Speech Processing, a highly ranked center for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
- Develop frameworks for annotating and working with data, developing novel NLP systems, training and evaluating large language models.
- Establish and meet appropriate goals and milestones research software development process, and appropriately test, evaluate and document the developed software.
- Collaborate with, aid, and support other team members utilizing this software and derived products.
- Internal & external contacts required as part of the job,
- students, faculty researchers.
Special skills & knowledge:
- Must have some experience in natural language processing, large language models and medical data.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related discipline.
- Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in computer science or related discipline.
Classified Title: Research Assistant
Role/Level/Range: ACRO37.5/03/CD
Starting Salary Range: $17.20 - $30.30 HRLY (Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F/8:30-5
Exempt Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Homewood Campus
Department name: Ctr for Language and Speech Processing
Personnel area: Whiting School of Engineering
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