Post-Master's Fellowship in Natural Language Processing

The Department of Defense (DoD) is offering a post-master's fellowship at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a world leader in timely, relevant, accurate and actionable GEOINT.

Scientists in NGA Research Directorate’s Predictive Analytics Pod (PA) lead research in data mining, machine learning and predictive modeling to identify patterns in historic data and make informed predictions about future events. The candidate selected for this position will apply their technical skills and expertise to develop natural language processing (NLP) techniques for event detection and sentiment analysis.

Springfield, Virginia, or St. Louis, Missouri

NGA is ready to make appointments immediately. Exact start dates will be determined at the time of selection and in coordination with the selected candidate. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis and fellowships will be filled as qualified candidates are identified.

Appointments are initially for one year with the option to extend the appointment for up to four additional years, contingent upon project needs and funding availability.

As the selected candidate, you will receive:

You must have or be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance for the duration of your appointment. It is expected that after completing the necessary application for clearance a fitness determination will allow participation to begin with unclassified material, while awaiting a clearance.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, warfighters, intelligence professionals, and first responders. Anyone who sails a U.S. ship, flies a U.S. aircraft, makes national policy decisions, fights wars, locates, target, responds to natural disasters, or even navigates with a cellphone relies on NGA. NGA enables all of these critical actions and shapes decisions that impact our world through the indispensable discipline of geospatial intelligence.  For more information about NGA, please visit https://www.nga.mil/.

This program, administered by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and DoD. Participants do not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, DoD or any other office or agency. Instead, you will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment. Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE. For more information, visit the ORISE Research Participation Program at the U.S. Department of Defense.

Social Network Analysis, Cultural Geography, Human Geography, Data Mining, Data Science, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Predictive Analysis, Algorithm Development, Satellite Image Processing, GIS, Cloud Data Analytics, Data Fusion, Object Modeling, Multi-dimensional Data Warehouse, Query Language, Data Visualization Techniques

The qualified candidate will have received a master's degree. Degree must have been received within five years of the appointment start date. U.S. military veterans who have been honorably discharged (or who have been medically discharged because of a service-connected disability) and who have received a master's degree within ten years of the appointment start-date are also eligible.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate:

In addition to the above indicated qualifications, the following qualifications are highly desirable: