What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer – Human Language Technology position at The MITRE Corporation?
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Department Summary :
MITRE’s Human Language Technology (HLT) Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to provide language processing solutions to address complex mission needs for our sponsors. Our work provides opportunities to apply language processing solutions to real-world challenges and to research and prototype new methods to address mission needs. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration in the field of natural language processing capabilities. We are looking for expertise in areas such as large language models (LLMs), generative AI, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, machine translation, speech processing, information extraction, automatic knowledge base population, cross-language information retrieval, identity matching and other areas of human language technology.
Roles & Responsibilities :
The position involves researching, developing, evaluating, and integrating HLT capabilities. Specific responsibilities will include :
- Work in and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams to develop and implement AI and HLT solutions, including capabilities that leverage large language model technology.
- Analyze language processing needs and recommend innovative solutions.
- Prototype HLT systems or components based on analysis of workflow and operational mission needs.
- Evaluate technology solutions in the context of mission data and workflow needs, and provide actionable recommendations.
- Convey complex ideas to non-technical audiences through briefings and / or white papers.
- Lead projects or small teams to solve complex HLT problems for our sponsors.
Basic Qualifications :
Preferred Qualifications :
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s) : None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s) : Secret
Work Location Type : Hybrid
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