Assistant Research Scientist; PREP

Overview

Salary: $60,000-$120,000 a year

PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas.

Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

• Leading NIST efforts to assess, advance, and potentially standardize methods for tracking content provenance (e.g., watermarking and metadata recording).
• Surveying existing content provenance tracking methods.
• Designing or contributing to methods and projects that assess the extent to which provenance tracking methods meet various potential objectives.
• Identifying technical or usability flaws in existing methods and proposing solutions.
• Contributing to existing standardization projects on content provenance tracking and/or identifying opportunities for new projects.

• Familiarity with the workings of modern generative AI systems.
• Detailed knowledge of one or more technical methods for adding watermarks to or associating metadata with content to record the provenance of the content (e.g., Synth
  
  ID, C2PA, or similar).
• Ability to quickly identify and review relevant computer science research papers and extract relevant conclusions.
• Strong written communication skills.

• Upload the following with your application:
• CV/Resume (limit to 3 pages; include a valid email address for contact information)
• Self portraits
• Phone number
• Home address/Country
• Citizenship status
• Languages spoken
• Sex/Gender

Privacy Act Statement

Authority: 15 U.S.C. § 278g-1(e)(1) and (e)(3) and 15 U.S.C. § 272(b) and (c)

Purpose: The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) hosts the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) which is designed to provide valuable laboratory experience and financial assistance to undergraduates, post-bachelor's degree holders, graduate students, master's degree holders, postdocs, and faculty.

Routine Uses: NIST will use the information collected to perform the requisite reviews of the applications to determine eligibility, and to meet programmatic requirements. Disclosure of this information is also subject to all the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy Act System of Records Notices: NIST-1: NIST Associates.

Disclosure: Furnishing this information is voluntary. When you submit the form, you are indicating your voluntary consent for NIST to use of the information you submit for the purpose stated.