Research Associate – Natural Language Processing (AI) – Career Advising & Professional Development | MIT

Research Associate – Natural Language Processing (AI) – Career Advising & Professional Development | MIT CAPD has services in Building 7 and Building E17! Learn where to go for what you need. Institute for Defense Analyses Research Associate – Natural Language Processing (AI) - Share This: - Copy Link Overview The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) supporting the Department of War (DoW), the U.S. Intelligence Community, and other federal agencies. IDA’s mission is to provide objective analyses of national security issues and related national challenges, particularly those requiring extraordinary scientific and technical expertise. IDA takes great pride in the high caliber and timeliness of its analyses, which are produced in an inclusive atmosphere that encourages collaboration, independent thinking, and objective results. IDA seeks to hire a natural language processing (NLP) research engineer to develop and apply novel research methods that operationalize text mining and AI to accelerate expert analysis on national security challenges. In this role, you will explore and operationalize analytic computational methods that answer multilingual research questions. You will create cutting-edge technical solutions that accelerate expert analysis on sensitive national security questions for U.S. government sponsors. This position, which is at the Research Associate level, is part of IDA’s Global Dynamics and Intelligence Division (GDI). IDA is located in Alexandria, VA, just outside Washington, D.C. Responsibilities The candidate will directly contribute to IDA research efforts as part of diverse and interdisciplinary research teams, working closely with qualitative researchers and analysts. They will support various analyses within GDI and will also work with analysts from other divisions at IDA. - Work as a member of research teams, contributing technical and analytical expertise to collaborativ