Research Engineer Part-time

Research Engineer

The Department of Linguistics and Philology carries out research and offers education in language studies and philology with a focus on the languages and cultures of Asia, the classical languages of Europe, general linguistics, and computational linguistics. Education is offered at the basic, advanced, and doctoral level. Some seventy persons work at the department. Together with students and partners, they create a multicultural and intellectually vibrant environment.

We seek a research engineer for a project on multilingual language models. The main tasks are to train, evaluate and investigate large language models on HPC clusters, and in other ways support the project's research in advanced analysis of the models.

Master's degree in language technology, computer science or other relevant subject area. Documented experience of training and evaluation of large language models on HPC clusters.

Research experience on multilingual language models, evaluation of language models, and mixture-of-expert architectures. Practical experience of PyTorch, Huggingface Transformers, Docker/Kubernetes, and distributed training with Huggingface Accelerate.

The application should include a letter describing yourself and why you are applying for the position, your CV, degree certificates and other documents that support your eligibility, names and contact information of two referees (email address and phone number). The application should be written in English.

The employment is a temporary position, 12 months. Scope of employment 75 %. Starting date 2026-06-01, or as agreed. Placement: Uppsala.

For further information about the position, please contact Deputy Head of Department Mats Dahllöf, mats.dahllof@lingfil.uu.se; Professor Joakim Nivre, joakim.nivre@lingfil.uu.se.

Please submit your application by XX month 2026, UFV-PA 2026/1354.

Uppsala University is a broad research university with a strong international position. The ultimate goal is to conduct education and research of the highest quality and relevance to make a difference in society. Our most important asset is all of our 7,600 employees and 53,000 students who, with curiosity and commitment, make Uppsala University one of Sweden's most exciting workplaces.

The position may be subject to security vetting. If security vetting is conducted, the applicant must pass the vetting process to be eligible for employment.

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