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.

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline.
• Additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• 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