The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence (HLTCOE) at Johns Hopkins University seeks to hire research associates to support research in the area of speech and language processing. Applicants must have a Master’s degree or equivalent experience in one of the following areas: software engineering, interface design, project management, machine learning, human language technologies. A successful candidate will be integrated into one of our existing research teams to conduct world class research and development on such problems as authorship identification, information extraction, knowledge graph population, machine translation, multilingual information retrieval, speaker and language identification, and speech recognition. Candidates should have excellent verbal and written communication skills, competency in programming, and the ability and motivation to work in a team.

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Why the HLTCOE?

Located adjacent to Johns Hopkins’ beautiful Homewood campus in Baltimore, Maryland, the HLTCOE conducts long-term and applied research on fundamental challenges driven by real-world problems. Its staff scientists publish widely in premier venues, and, through close collaboration with members of the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), make Johns Hopkins one of the world’s largest and growing academic research groups in the field.

Centrally located on the east coast, Baltimore is affectionately known as Charm City because of its friendly people, thriving arts scene, and multitude of restaurants and pubs. The center of the city is the Inner Harbor, home to features such as the National Aquarium, historic Federal Hill, and two professional sports teams. It is famous for its crab cakes, and rich in the arts, from a variety of museums to children’s centers and a symphony orchestra. Just outside the city are abundant natural settings great for hiking, biking, and other outdoor adventures. Baltimore is part of the east coast corridor, just a short train, bus, or car ride away from Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. Best of all, Baltimore is affordable: many Hopkins employees own homes in adjacent neighborhoods, close enough to the University to walk or bike to work, or to take public transportation.

In addition to excellent medical, dental and vision insurance, JHU has a variety of other generous benefits* including:

• 50% tuition grants for employee’s children enrolled in any full-time, accredited, undergraduate, degree-granting institution;
• Up to $17,000 towards the closing cost of new home in Baltimore City and;
• University-made contributions of 12% of your base salary into your JHU 403(b) retirement plan.

For more detailed information regarding benefits, please visit: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

This position requires US citizenship and permission to work in the United States

To apply, please visit http://apply.interfolio.com/143719