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Department Summary: MITRE’s Human Language Technology (HLT) Department works across the full range of US Government agencies to provide language processing solutions to address complex mission needs for our sponsors. Our work provides opportunities to apply language processing solutions to real-world challenges and to research and prototype new methods to address mission needs. We are looking for highly motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration in the area of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), with particular emphasis on leveraging large language models (LLMs) to support a diverse set of mission needs across MITRE’s sponsor base. We are looking for expertise in areas such as LLMs, machine learning, model training and deployment, model evaluation, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems, GraphRAG, MLOps, fine-tuning models and prompt engineering.
Roles & Responsibilities: The position involves researching, developing, evaluating, and integrating GenAI and LLM capabilities. Specific responsibilities will include:
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None
This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $121,600 - $152,000 - $182,400 Annual
Work Location Type: Hybrid
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