Assistant Research Scientist; PREP

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary : $70-$85 per hour

Johns Hopkins University:
Whiting School of Engineering:
Office of Research and Translation

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP).NIST recognizes that its research staff may want to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects ofmutual interest and, therefore, requires those institutions to be recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program involves staff from awide range of backgrounds conducting scientific research across various fields.

Individuals in this position will perform technical work supporting the collaboration's scientific research.

Transforming the NIST Publishing Process to be AI-Ready

The candidate will work with NIST staff to conceive of and pilot novel approaches to NIST’s current publication process, including development of AI-ready versions of active NIST publications (e.g.,the Cybersecurity Framework) and other digital tools to supportimplementers of NIST publications.

• Investigating emerging AI-ready publication methods at other research institutions.
• Investigating emerging technologies, best practices, supporting processes, and KPIs that could transform the NIST publicationprocess into one that supports both human readers and AIagents.
• Designing options for a publication system and workflow optimized for external AI agents.
• Identifying options for public-facing tools to support external practitioners that implement NIST cybersecurity and privacy publications like the Cybersecurity Framework.
• Designing a possible pilot study to assess the feasibilityofthe proposed AI-ready publication approach and tools.

Presenting findings and the proposed approach at internal meetings.

Ensuring that findings and documentation have been archived or otherwise transmitted to the larger organization.

A Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, ora related field.

Experience building and testing information systems.

Experience in a research environment.

Experience with Python, C, and Java.

Skilled in technical writing, research methodology development,creative problem solving.

Knowledge of markdown, retrieval models, language models, natural language processing, database administration practices aplus.

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range.

The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may varyand will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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