Post Doctoral Scholar - AI in Arts and Humanities - Department of Linguistics
About The Position
The Department of Linguistics, in collaboration with the AI in Arts and Humanities Program in the College of Arts and Sciences, is hiring a Post Doctoral Scholar for a two-year term appointment beginning August 2026 and ending August 2028. This position is one of three new post doctoral appointments in the Arts and Humanities, each specifically tied to one of three new AI certificates: AI, Art and Creativity (in development); AI, Ethics and Society; and AI, Language and Mind. These roles work in tandem with the newly established Arts and Humanities AI Institute to support the OSU Provost’s AI Fluency Initiative, preparing students and faculty to make informed decisions about the technological changes around AI. The Post Doctoral Scholar will conduct research in the area of AI large language model interpretability, including researching the capabilities of transformers as language learners and language users using behavioral experiments or existing data. In this research, the Post Doctoral Scholar may employ recent interpretability methods such as causal interventions, dictionary learning and circuit analysis, but other kinds of work related to interpretability of AI large language models will be considered. The Post Doctoral Scholar will also refine existing course materials and develop new course materials in the area of AI interpretability for broad-enrollment general education courses on how transformers and other language technologies work.
Requirements
- A Ph.D. in Linguistics or Computer and Information Science or doctoral degree in a related field is required prior to the start position date of August 10, 2026.
- ABDs are welcome to apply.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a steady record of publication in the area of AI interpretability and develop collaborative projects with faculty at OSU.
- Supervise research with graduate and undergraduate students, identifying and selecting problems to be studied in collaboration with faculty and graduate students, performing experiments, collecting and analyzing data and preparing research results for publication in reports, papers, journals, books, and other media.
- Contribute substantially to efforts to review and update existing course materials for courses on AI models of language and other computational language technology (particularly LING3804, AI Models of Language), and to the development of materials for a one-credit hour module for an AI-centered multi-modular course, in service of OSU's AI Fluency initiative.
- The Post Doctoral Scholar will have a two-course annual teaching load, and is charged with helping to stand up the AI Language and Mind Certificate, and to contribute to the intellectual and pedagogical life of Ohio State’s AI Fluency initiative.
Benefits
- Medical, dental and vision coverage, with Ohio State paying a significant portion of the cost.
- Paid time off, including sick and vacation time and 11 holidays.
- State retirement plan or an alternative retirement plan, both with generous employer contributions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
