Research Assistant

চাকরির বিবরণ

East West University (EWU) is seeking applications for two Research Assistant positions in a research project entitled 'AI-Powered East West University Assistants: From Conversational AI to Knowledge-Verified Institutional Intelligence for Academic Support', funded by the EWU Center for Research and Training (EWUCRT). Contractual, project-based appointment for the project duration (12 months). Salary: BDT 20,000 consolidated per month. How to apply: submit an application with a current CV to Dr. Mohammad Rifat Ahmmad Rashid, Principal Researcher, at rifat.rashid@ewubd.edu by 1 November 2026, mentioning the position name in the email subject line. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. This posting is for Research Assistant (LLM and RAG Engineering).

দায়িত্ব

• Fine-tune open-source large language models on EWU-specific data, implement and optimize the Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline, integrate knowledge-graph verification, deploy and monitor the chatbot service, and carry out benchmarking against commercial LLM APIs
• Conduct literature reviews on large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs and AI assistants in higher education, and assist in preparing the system design and evaluation protocol
• Administer surveys, feedback forms and interviews with students, faculty and administrative staff; maintain anonymized chatbot interaction logs and user analytics for response-time, accuracy, satisfaction and workload analysis
• Support the weekly human audit of a stratified random sample of AI-generated responses for factual accuracy against official policy, and maintain documentation of prompts, codes, scripts, model checkpoints and experiment records
• Prepare figures, tables, technical summaries, progress reports and presentations, assist in manuscript preparation and dissemination of outcomes, and perform other research-related tasks assigned by the Principal Investigator/Co-Investigators

যোগ্যতা

• Knowledge of large language model fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), retrieval-augmented generation frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex), API/back-end development and model deployment will be an advantage
• Minimum B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology or a related discipline from a recognized university; M.Sc. or final-stage M.Sc. will be preferred
• Strong programming, analytical and problem-solving skills with proficiency in Python and familiarity with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers and standard machine learning workflows
• Good communication, documentation and academic writing skills, and willingness to follow institutional data-protection and research ethics requirements
• Experience in research or project work involving data collection, preprocessing, experimentation, analysis, documentation and reporting will be preferred
• Prior experience as a Teaching Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, intern or in similar academic/research roles will be considered an advantage

দক্ষতা

• Docker
• LangChain
• LLM Fine-tuning
• Python
• PyTorch
• RAG