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Posted Jun 3, 2026

Technical Leader – Natural Language Processing

Job Description: • Bring your technical expertise and project management skills to lead small teams of researchers and engineers on advanced R&D projects funded by government and commercial customers. • Collaborate with external, well-known academic and industry researchers in Natural Language Processing, ML, AI, and computer vision. • Lead proposals for new funding from government R&D organizations and/or commercial companies. • Develop and evaluate algorithms to understand the textual content of textual and multi-modal data, and/or perform reasoning on extracted data. • Enjoy support and encouragement for participation in national and international NLP, machine learning, AI, and/or computer vision conferences. Requirements: • PhD in Computer Science or related field with a minimum of 6 years relevant experience. • Strong publication history in NLP (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL) conferences, or other AI venues incorporating NLP (AAAI, ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS). Candidates should include a detailed list of publications as part of their resume/CV. • Experience collaborating successfully with others and thriving in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment. • Experience leading federal and/or commercial business development activities and winning R&D funding. • Experience developing and nurturing project teams, building an environment of collaboration. • Excellent project management skills with demonstrable efforts leading and delivering complex research projects on time, within budget, and with a high level of customer satisfaction. • Experience in supervising and reviewing research and software developed by others. • Experience designing and implementing complex software systems. • Due to contractual restrictions, only US Citizens will be considered for this position. • If not already cleared TS/SCI, willingness and ability to apply for, use, and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance. Benefits: • comprehensive benefits package includes a competitive compensation plan • tuition reimbursement program • flexible working hours • six weeks paid time off • 401(k) • health insurance • life insurance • short- and long-term disability insurance • bonus plan • free coffee, drinks, and snacks