Technical SETA SME – Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Core
Subject Matter Expert supporting the full lifecycle of NLP and LLM research programs, from development to transition, serving intelligence and defense missions.
Role type
Senior IC NLP/LLM Research Engineer (SETA)
Builds
Production-ready NLP pipelines, text analytics solutions, and AI-driven language processing technologies for intelligence production.
Domain
Defense/Intelligence Community, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
NLP methodologies (text classification, NER, topic modeling, information extraction), transformer-based architectures, LLM development, pipeline optimization, systems engineering, data architecture design, AI governance, bias mitigation
Preferred skills
Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy, Intelligence Community (IC) experience, multi-disciplinary team management, project management
Technologies
Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, spaCy
Responsibilities
Execute research program lifecycle (development, source selection, execution, closeout, transition), attend technical meetings and workshops, develop program plans and milestone schedules, evaluate NLP pipelines and model performance
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC