Research Engineer Intern for Natural Language Processing and Explainable AI

We seek reinforcements for our team solving the scientific part of the international project. The intern will focus on the problem of explaining the Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and other NLP research and engineering challenges.

Job description

We seek reinforcements for our team solving the scientific part of the international project DisAI, a HORIZON-CSA project aimed at improving scientific excellence and creativity in combating disinformation with artificial intelligence and language technologies. The intern will focus on the problem of explaining the Natural Language Processing (NLP) models and other NLP research and engineering challenges.

The intern will participate and get hands-on experience in the whole research process, work with various NLP models and explainability methods and develop and deploy innovative NLP solutions for selected tasks. 

The work may include practicing with Large Language Models (LLMs) with focus on open-source models, and applications like ChatGPT. As working with these models requires significant resources, you may improve yourself in engineering and work with cloud or High-performance computing (HPC).

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Creation of AI models and methods, statistical analysis, machine learning
  • Application of various explainability techniques to various NLP models to explain their predictions to the users and to improve the models themselves
  • Data acquisition (including cleaning, preprocessing and annotating)
  • Experimental software development (prototypes)
  • Participation in research studies

Employee perks, benefits

  • Learn about natural language processing, explainable AI and related methods and tools applied almost anywhere.
  • Improve your data analysis, machine learning and programming skills. 
  • Be a part of a real research project, guided by experienced and nice colleagues.
  • Experience best practices of research and project work.
  • Opportunity to work on the design of research studies.
  • Opportunity to meet the Slovak and European elites in AI and NLP.
  • Get in touch with interesting technologies, such as cloud, supercomputer and others.
  • Work with a great and supportive team.

Personality requirements

  • You should have some experience with statistics (and math in general)
  • You should have some experience with machine learning basics 
  • You should have some experience with programming (e.g. several university courses)
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Join us to help us build the best NLP team in the region!

Marián Šimko

Lead and Researcher, Hiring manager

Skills

  • English – proficiency level (C1)

Salary

  • The offered is from 6 € / hour (brutto)

Information about selection process

Should you be interested in applying for our intersnhip, please send us your CV. We will contact you with information about the selection process.

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