Research Associate

3 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE07 £37,099 - £44,263 per annum**

**College of Science and Engineering, School of Informatics**

**Fixed-term, available for 24 months**

**Full time 35 hours per week**

**1 post available
We are looking for a Research Associate position in natural language processing and machine learning.

**The Opportunity**:
**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- PhD (or near completion)
- A strong background in AI, machine learning and/or natural language processing
- Publications at top venues in NLP or/and ML
- Strong programming skills
- Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills, and excellent command of English

**Click to view a copy of the full **job description
**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme **, **staff discounts, family-friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more. Click to access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

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