AI Research Engineer - NLP

UL Research Institutes • Evanston, IL

1d • $98,562 - $135,523 • Remote

About The Position

We have an exciting opportunity for an AI Research Engineer at UL Research Institutes, within our Digital Safety Research Institute (DSRI). This is a REMOTE opportunity. The AI Research Engineer advances Digital Safety mission by designing, developing, and evaluating advanced artificial intelligence (AI) safety assessment systems, with a focus on large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) safety. This role contributes to the development of rigorous evaluation methodologies, scalable assessment capabilities, and research-driven insights that improve the safety assessments of frontier AI systems.

Requirements

• Ph.D. in computer science or related field, focused on NLP or LLMs.
• 3 years of relevant experience, post Ph.D.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrates mastery level knowledge of NLP and LLM safety and how safety assessments can protect the public from LLM harms.
• Solves AI assessment research challenges independently and efficiently.
• Engages software engineering teams who build tools to help DSRI researchers scale their assessments to perform rapidly at scale.
• Looks ahead to needed research and development next steps, for better analytics to assess LLM or NLP outputs.
• Begins developing relationships within the broader safety community.

Responsibilities

• Studies incident reports implicating LLMs or NLP algorithms and hypothesizes root causes.
• Conducts literature and open-source reviews in NLP or LLM.
• Designs, plans, and creates NLP or LLMs assessments - expanding digital safety best practices.
• Applies technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Codes or trains text analytics needed to run NLP or LLM assessments.
• Prepares written component documentation for technical audiences.
• Publishes assessment research results, on-line, using Digital Safety lab tools, and in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.
• Works closely with team members to ensure that all processes are accurate and technically sound.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree