Research Scientist
Company: Intelligent Automation, Inc.
Location: Derwood
Posted on: April 1, 2026
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Job Description:
Research Scientist - N atural Language Processing BACKGROUND:
IAI is looking for talented research scientists to contribute and
lead research and development efforts in natural language
processing, text analysis, and graph analysis. The candidate will
incorporate novel ideas and improve the state of the art on
text-related projects. Additionally, the candidate will develop a
portfolio of related research by extending existing work and
developing new business. Beyond fundamental and applied research,
the candidate will work with technical and project management teams
to develop the transition of the most promising technology into
products. Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) is a technology
innovation company headquartered in Rockville, MD. We specialize in
providing advanced technology solutions and R&D services to
federal agencies, and corporations throughout the United States and
internationally. Leveraging agile R&D processes and a
multidisciplinary collaborative environment IAI excels in
developing concepts into market-focused products and
customer-driven solutions. IAI's core R&D areas include:
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Air Traffic Management,
Big Data, and Social Media Analytics, Control and Signal
Processing, Cyber Security, Education, and Training Technologies,
Health Technologies, Modeling and Simulation, Networks and
Communications, Robotics and Sensor Systems. For more information
on IAI, please visit www.i-a-i.com . You are highly encouraged to
apply if you enjoy extracting information from unstructured data,
strive to stay current on the technology and literature in areas of
text processing/analysis and information retrieval and are
passionate about understanding how things work and want to solve
complex problems. JOB DUTIES: · Develop new ideas and write
proposals in the above-mentioned research areas · Develop methods
for entity extraction and entity relationships in text documents ·
Develop methods for topic modeling and document categorization ·
Develop methods for feature extraction · Evaluate the performance
of a variety of text algorithms · Explore the use of novel methods
for information retrieval on large corpora · Formulate research
ideas to solve new problems and transform into business development
opportunities · Communicate findings effectively in the form of
briefings and technical reports DESIRED SKILLS: · Algorithm
development experience in Python and/or Java · Experience with text
mining/analysis tools (e.g., GATE, JET, MALLET, StanfordNLP, nltk,
Lucene, Solr, ElasticSearch) · Development of machine learning
and/or graph-based algorithms applied to text corpora (e.g.,
scikitlearn, networkx, mlpack, weka) · Familiar with word embedding
methods (e.g., word2vec, GloVe, doc2vec) · Familiar with web
frameworks (e.g., Pyramid, Flask, Spring Boot, Express, Django,
etc.) · Good publication record and proposal writing experience
EDUCATION: A Masters degree (or higher) in Computer Science,
Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or related field is required. All
qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran
status.
Keywords: Intelligent Automation, Inc., Annandale , Research Scientist, IT / Software / Systems , Derwood, Virginia
