Research Scientist (NLP, LLM)

Job Title: Research Scientist (NLP, LLM)

Location: Remote – United States

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Up to $220,000 base + bonus + equity

Overview:

A leading AI-driven organisation is seeking a Research Scientist with expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs). This is a fully remote role based in the United States, offering the opportunity to lead innovative research efforts focused on content quality and misinformation detection at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and pursue research questions in collaboration with product managers, machine learning scientists, and engineers
• Conduct extensive literature reviews and identify potential research directions
• Design and run experiments, lead data collection efforts, and work with large-scale text datasets
• Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to solve real-world problems
• Deliver research findings and collaborate with engineering teams to integrate solutions into production environments
• Communicate complex technical concepts to cross-functional stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Computational Social Sciences, or a related field
• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience or equivalent experience in a research setting (recent PhD graduates encouraged to apply)
• Strong experience with a range of NLP tasks (e.g. part-of-speech tagging, entity recognition, dependency parsing)
• Broad understanding of machine learning and statistical methods (e.g. causal inference, deep learning, reinforcement learning)
• Proficient in Python or R; experience with Spark or PySpark
• Proven track record of end-to-end research execution

Preferred Experience:

• Familiarity with misinformation detection, fact-checking, or computational journalism
• Strong publication record
• Experience designing and implementing evaluation frameworks
• Knowledge of journalistic principles and/or regulated industries

This role offers:

• The opportunity to work on impactful AI research in a fast-moving environment
• High autonomy and the ability to shape research direction
• A competitive compensation package including base salary, performance bonus, and equity