Research Associate - Natural Language Processing (AI)

Job description

Overview The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) is a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) supporting the Department of War (DoW), the U.S. Intelligence Community, and other federal agencies. IDA’s mission is to provide objective analyses of national security issues and related national challenges, particularly those requiring extraordinary scientific and technical expertise. IDA takes great pride in the high caliber and timeliness of its analyses, which are produced in an inclusive atmosphere that encourages collaboration, independent thinking, and objective results. IDA seeks to hire a natural language processing (NLP) research associate to develop and apply novel research methods that operationalize text mining and AI to accelerate expert analysis on national security challenges. In this role, you will develop and operationalize analytic computational methods that answer multilingual research questions in English and Chinese. You will work closely with PhD-level researchers, former government officials, and retired military officers to identify research needs, prototype technical approaches, and build sustained capabilities that transform how qualitative ana...