AI Research Engineer - NLP

Lucas James Talent Partners • Evanston, IL

9d • Remote

About The Position

Lucas James Talent Partners is recruiting on behalf of UL Research Institutes. 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

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

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.

Benefits

• bonus compensation
• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• life insurance
• 401k matching structure of up to 5% of eligible pay
• additional 4% into your retirement saving fund after your first year of continuous employment
• paid time off, including vacation, holiday, sick, and volunteer days

What This Job Offers

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