Computational Linguistics Research Specialist/NLP - Secret
Company: Xcelerate Solutions
Location: Bethesda
Posted on: March 17, 2023
Job Description:
Description
Computational Linguistics Research Specialist/NLP - Secret
Xcelerate Solutions is seeking a Computational Linguistics Senior
Research Scientist with a background in designing Natural Language
Processing (NLP) and Human Language Technology (HLT) approaches
that integrate, adapt, and extend novel capabilities to address the
customer's research challenges in competitive contract and internal
research and development (R&D) programs (basic and applied).
Candidates with a deep technical background in computational
linguistics, human language technology, machine translation,
automated speech recognition, machine translation, linguistic data
analysis, statistical programming, data science, are strongly
encouraged to apply. Come join our award-winning organization and
work with some of the most talented and brightest minds in the
GovCon industry.Location:
Bethesda, MD Security Clearance:Secret Responsibilities:
Independently influence the
development of approaches and solutions that address highly-complex
research challenges as well as partner in a team environment across
organizations.Independently design and undertake new applications
of NLP research as well as partner in a team environment across
organizations.Develop topics for novel and innovative R&D
approaches to solving challenges in the area of NLP and work with
potential sponsors (customers or internal champions) to secure
funding for new research efforts based on those topics.Collect,
curate, and analyze natural language corpora for a variety of NLP
and text analytic tasks.Perform metrics-based evaluations of new
technologies from research organizations to determine potential
contributions.Lead teams of fellow researchers, data scientists,
data engineers, and software engineers to execute complex R&D
programs.Other duties as assigned; associated with and/or in
support of your primary role or program mission.Minimum
Requirements:
Advanced degree (PhD highly desired)
in computational linguistics, computer science, data science, or a
related discipline, such as statistics or applied mathematics.
Demonstrable experience (both individually and leading/directing
others in) adapting and extending open technologies in the context
of novel approaches for NLP tasks. Tasks of interest include:
computational linguistics, text analytics (to include data from
multilingual sources), speech recognition, machine translation,
formal grammar, lexical semantics/semantic parsing, coreference
analysis, discourse analysis, argument mining, lexical entailment,
natural language understanding, natural language generation, and
multi-role dialogue understanding. With a Master's degree, at least
thirteen (13) years of specialized experience innovating analytical
techniques and performing analytical functions using
machine-learning libraries or other approaches. With a PhD, at
least ten (10) years of specialized experience is required.
Experience in the following areas: text processing and construction
of corpora in unfamiliar languages; processing of large text
collections with standard NLP tools for parsing, entity extraction,
POS tagging, topic discovery and classification (such as sentiment
analysis), and natural language understanding; tuning
hyper-parameters of existing NLP models for domain-specific data
sets; computational manipulation and analysis of natural language
documents using statistical models; experimenting with large
corpora for developing and testing advanced NLP algorithms. Ability
to program in Python, Perl, or other scripting language.
Familiarity with common NLP and ML toolkits such as Stanford
CoreNLP, OpenNLP, NLTK, scikit-learn, and Tensorflow. Knowledge of
state-of-the-art methods coupled with the creativity and
intelligence to advance beyond them. Track record of active
learning and creative problem solving. Track record of relevant
publications in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Experience
leading technical projects to successful completion. An active DoD
Secret Security clearance with the ability to upgrade to a TS/SCI
w/ PolygraphPreferred Qualifications: (if applicable)
Previous experience as a technical
lead, such as a principal investigator on a project Experience as a
PI on projects for a competitive contract R&D customer, such as
DARPA Familiarity with collaboration environments (e.g. Jupyter
notebooks, PyCharm) Prior experience with many of the following
models: Deep Learning (CNNs, RCNNs, LSTMs), GANs, Autoencoders,
Reinforcement Learning, Siamese Networks, Logistic Regression,
Linear Regression, Support Vector Machines, Hidden Markov Models,
Conditional Random Fields, Latent Dirichlet AllocationAbout
Xcelerate Solutions: Founded in 2009 and headquartered in McLean,
VA, Xcelerate Solutions (www.xceleratesolutions.com) is one of
America's fastest-growing companies. Xcelerate's culture is defined
by our diversified workforce of dynamic and versatile
professionals, supported with growth and development opportunities
that contribute to individual and company growth. This strong
commitment to our employees has been recognized by our inclusion on
the Washington Business Journal's "50 Best Places to Work" list as
well as being a "Great Place to Work" certified company with a 4.6
star, and a 99% CEO approval Glassdoor rating. Come find out why
Xcelerate Solutions is one of the DC Metro top employers!Xcelerate
Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race,
color, national origin, religion, age, equal pay, disability,
veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic
information, or expression of another protected characteristic. As
part of this commitment to the full inclusion of all qualified
individuals, Xcelerate provides reasonable accommodations if needed
because of an applicant's or an employee's disability.Pay
Transparency Notice: Xcelerate Solutions will not discharge or in
any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants
because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own
pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
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