Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Liverpool – Algorithms and Computing Systems · United Kingdom
Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool – Algorithms and Computing Systems. Full-time position on the AIM-SAFE Horizon Europe project, developing open-weight language models for clinical NLP, fine-tuning pipelines, quantisation methods for NHS deployment, and federated learning integration. Technical liaison with partner teams, publication and mentoring responsibilities.
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About this opportunity
Hours of work: Full-time
Tenure: The post is available up to 31 May 2030
AIM-SAFE is a Horizon Europe project building a multi-agent clinical reasoning framework from open-weight, locally deployable AI, in partnership with KAIST, Knowledgator, the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and CERN.
The University of Liverpool leads Work Package 5, Task 5.1, and this post takes day-to-day technical ownership of it: benchmarking and selecting open-weight Small Language Models for clinical NLP tasks such as entity recognition and drug-interaction reasoning; designing parameter-efficient fine-tuning pipelines (LoRA, QLoRA, adapters) within a reproducible MLOps framework; applying quantisation (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF/llama.cpp) for CPU-feasible NHS deployment; integrating federated and privacy-preserving learning via the CAFEIN platform at CERN; embedding the RUC2 clinical safety governance layer; and leading Deliverable D5.1.
You will also act as the technical liaison with the KAIST-led multi-agent orchestration team and the Knowledgator-led RAG team, publish in high-impact venues, and mentor junior researchers within the Intelligent Systems Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Computer Science.
If you are still awaiting your PhD to be awarded you will be appointed at Grade 6, spine point 30. Upon written confirmation that you have been awarded your PhD, your salary will be increased to Grade 7, spine point 31.
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