Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant

1 month ago


London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom Queen Mary University of London Full time

About the Role

The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is looking to recruit a Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Research Assistant in AI for Music. The Centre for Digital Music has been awarded an Innovate UK grant, collaborating with a pro-audio company. The post-holder will work on lyrics generation using LLMs.

About You

Applicants must have a Postgraduate Degree in Computer Science/Electronic Engineering (or equivalent). Applicants at the PDRA level must have a PhD in Computer Science or a related field. Candidates must have substantial knowledge in Deep/Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs) Natural Language Processing and familiarity with Generative AI especially for lyrics, poetry or prose.

We are also advertising a similar role in AI for music at which can be found under reference 1930.

About the School of EECS

Our researchers work with the arts and sciences collaborating with psychologists, biologists, musicians and actors, mathematicians, medical researchers, dentists and lawyers. As a multidisciplinary School, we are well known for our pioneering research and pride ourselves on our world-class projects. We are equal first in the UK for the impact of our Computer Science research, and second in the country for our Electronic Engineering research output (REF 2021).

About Queen Mary

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence and we embrace diversity of thought in everything we do. We believe that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

The post is based at the Mile End Campus in London. It is a full-time/part-time (35/ hours per week), fixed term appointment starting as soon as possible and finishing by 31 March 2025. The starting salary will be Grade 4.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We have policies to support our staff throughout their careers, including arrangements for those who wish to work flexibly or on a job share basis, and we provide support for those returning from long-term absence. We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Women, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic groups as these groups are underrepresented at this level at Queen Mary.

Candidates are kindly requested to upload documents totaling no more than 10 pages; certificates, references and research papers should not be provided at this stage.



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