Natural Language Processing Intern at The MITRE Corporation

New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

01 May, 26

Salary

69500.0

Posted On

31 Jan, 26

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, Programming Languages, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Identity Matching, Speech Processing

Industry

Research Services

Description

Why choose between doing meaningful work and having a fulfilling life? At MITRE, you can have both. That's because MITRE people are committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges—and we're committed to the long-term well-being of our employees. MITRE is different from most technology companies. We are a not-for-profit corporation chartered to work for the public interest, with no commercial conflicts to influence what we do. The R&D centers we operate for the government create lasting impact in fields as diverse as cybersecurity, healthcare, aviation, defense, and enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every day—working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and world. Our workplace reflects our values. We offer competitive benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities for career growth, and a culture of innovation that embraces adaptability, collaboration, technical excellence, and people in partnership. If this sounds like the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE - and make a difference with us. 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 department’s work provides opportunities to apply natural language processing solutions to real-world challenges and to research and prototype new methods to address critical sponsor mission needs. Our department has deep expertise in a wide range of technology areas, including large language models, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, speech processing, information extraction, automatic knowledge base population, cross-language information retrieval, identity matching/resolution. We are looking for highly-motivated, adaptive, and self-directed candidates to perform research, development, engineering, evaluation and integration in the field of natural language processing, to include computational linguistics, artificial intelligence/machine learning and large language models (LLMs) as applied to machine and computer-assisted translation, speech processing, information extraction, information retrieval, identity matching and associated areas of human language technology. Basic Qualifications Sustained excellence in academic performance Must be a student enrolled full-time in an accredited degree-seeking program in Computer Science, Linguistics, Data Science, or a related degree and continue to be enrolled full-time the semester following the internship. Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including: C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Go, Python or similar. Experience or coursework in Natural Language Processing and its applications Preferred Qualifications Demonstrated interest in serving the public Completion of a significant project leveraging Natural Language Processing Experience with one or more machine learning or NLP libraries such as Keras, TensorFlow, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Stanford CoreNLP, spaCy, NLTK, or similar. Preference may be given to qualified candidates with active US government security clearance Clearance: In addition to passing MITRE’s employment background check, you may be submitted for a U.S. Government Security clearance. This is determined by the Department of Defense’s adjudicative guidelines for receiving a clearance, to include U.S. citizenship. Other jobs may require vetting for various levels of agency public trust, fitness, suitability, controlled access, and special programs access determination consistent with the work program to which you are assigned. This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): Not Applicable This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Not Applicable Salary compensation range and midpoint: $46,500 - $58,000 - $69,500 Annual Work Location Type: Hybrid It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Commitment to Non-Discrimination All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local or international law. MITRE intends to maintain a website that is fully accessible to all individuals. 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Responsibilities

The intern will perform research, development, engineering, evaluation, and integration in the field of natural language processing. This includes applying solutions to real-world challenges and prototyping new methods for critical mission needs.