Postdoctoral Researcher in Large Language Model Development

Postdoctoral Researcher in Large Language Model Development Humanities Divisional Office, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG Contract Fixed term for 12 months Hours Full-time (37.5 per week) About the role The postholder is expected primarily to deliver the core objectives of the BodleianLLM project: curating, cleaning and documenting a multilingual humanities training corpus drawn from Oxford's GLAM collections; performing continual pre-training and fine-tuning of an open-weight foundation model on the University's own computing infrastructure; and, working with subject specialists and curators, designing and validating the first dedicated benchmark suite for evaluating language models on humanities research tasks.