Technical Leader – Natural Language Processing

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Technical Leader for Kitware's computer vision team, focusing on advanced R&D projects in NLP, ML, and AI. Collaborating with academic and industry researchers, leading proposals, and managing research teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Bring your technical expertise and project management skills to lead small teams of researchers and engineers on advanced R&D projects funded by government and commercial customers.
  • Collaborate with external, well-known academic and industry researchers in Natural Language Processing, ML, AI, and computer vision.
  • Lead proposals for new funding from government R&D organizations and/or commercial companies.
  • Develop and evaluate algorithms to understand the textual content of textual and multi-modal data, and/or perform reasoning on extracted data.
  • Enjoy support and encouragement for participation in national and international NLP, machine learning, AI, and/or computer vision conferences.

Requirements:

  • PhD in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience.
  • Strong publication history in NLP (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL) conferences, or other AI venues incorporating NLP (AAAI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS). Candidates should include a detailed list of publications as part of their resume/CV.
  • Experience collaborating successfully with others and thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
  • Experience leading federal and/or commercial business development activities and winning R&D funding.
  • Experience developing and nurturing project teams, building an environment of collaboration.
  • Excellent project management skills with demonstrable efforts leading and delivering complex research projects on time, within budget, and with a high level of customer satisfaction.
  • Experience in supervising and reviewing research and software developed by others.
  • Experience designing and implementing complex software systems.
  • Due to contractual restrictions, only US Citizens will be considered for this position.
  • If not already cleared TS/SCI, willingness and ability to apply for, use, and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance.

Benefits:

  • comprehensive benefits package includes a competitive compensation plan
  • tuition reimbursement program
  • flexible working hours
  • six weeks paid time off
  • 401(k)
  • health insurance
  • life insurance
  • short- and long-term disability insurance
  • bonus plan
  • free coffee, drinks, and snacks