Multiple CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Natural Language Processing.  

Australia's CSIRO Data61 is looking for multiple CERC Fellows to join an NLP team of researchers and engineers to work on a number of public-good projects. 

NLP research areas of interest: information extraction, text summarization, question answering, semantic parsing, semantic role labelling, paraphrase detection and generation, and NLP for Information Retrieval. 

Domains of research: (1) Working with scientific literature, and (2) Computational Social Science

About the CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship program: 

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.  Relocation costs are supported for successful candidates.

Location: Sydney, NSW 

Salary: AU$89k - AU$98k plus up to 15.4% superannuation 

Tenure: Specified term of 3 years 

 

Applications close: 7 July 2022

To be considered you will need: 

• A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area, such as Computer Science (Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics or Machine Learning with text data).  
• Experience using deep learning and other machine learning techniques in NLP. 
• High-level written and oral communication skills with the ability to represent the research team effectively internally and externally, including the presentation of research outcomes at national and international conferences. 
• A sound history of publication in peer-reviewed journals and/or conferences.