Job Summary- Seeking a Data Scientist to support a Natural Language Processing project focused on automatically processing spoken and written language data
- The successful candidate will develop automated tokenization and linguistic annotation capabilities and evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations
Primary Responsibilities- Develop NLP solutions for spoken and written language data
- Develop automated approaches for accurate language tokenization
- Create automated solutions for annotating language data with parts-of-speech information
- Analyze speech and text datasets
- Improve existing NLP models and processing techniques
- Evaluate model performance against human-generated annotations
- Develop quantitative methods for measuring model accuracy and effectiveness
- Document model performance, analytical methods, and recommended improvements
Required Qualifications- Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph
- Master's degree with 6 years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 8 years of relevant experience, Associate's degree with 10 years of in-depth relevant experience that is clearly related to the position
- Experience with Natural Language Processing
- Experience processing text and/or speech data
- Experience developing automated language-processing solutions
- Understanding of tokenization and linguistic annotation concepts
- Experience evaluating model performance
- Strong analytical and software-development skills
Desired Qualifications- Experience with parts-of-speech tagging
- Computational linguistics background
- Experience evaluating automated NLP output against human-generated annotations
- Experience working with both speech and text datasets
Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company sponsored group medical plan, company paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate's experience and qualifications.
The pay range for this role is:
135,000 - 180,000 USD per year (Ft. Meade MD)