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Postdoctoral Fellow - Applied AI - Document Understanding at Ancestry - ApplyBlast

Postdoctoral Fellow - Applied AI - Document Understanding

Ancestry

4 months ago

Remote

Full Time

Senior

1 applicant

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About this role

Ancestry is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to lead research at the intersection of industry-scale data and academic rigor within their AI Applied Science team. The role focuses on designing AI-Native agentic systems and advancing document understanding to unlock insights from billions of historical and genealogical records. You will implement cutting-edge AI solutions for tasks like OCR, Named Entity Recognition, and Knowledge Graphs while transforming unstructured records into structured knowledge.

Responsibilities

Design and implement AI-Native agentic systems for document understanding.
Optimize multi-modal LLMs for zero-shot and few-shot scenarios.
Develop pipeline for extracting insights from historical genealogical records.
Build multi-agent workflows using frameworks like LangGraph and AutoGen.
Establish frameworks for evaluating AI drift and hallucination.

Skills

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Computer ScienceStrong academic publications in NLP or CV

About Ancestry

ancestry.com

Headquarters

Lehi, Utah, United States

Company Size

1001-5000 employees

Founded

1983

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Ancestry is a genealogy and family history platform that helps people discover, preserve, and share their family stories. It provides searchable access to billions of historical records (census, birth, marriage, immigration, military and more), tools to build interactive family trees, and automated hints that link records to your relatives. The company also offers consumer DNA testing (AncestryDNA) to estimate ethnicity and find genetic matches, plus collaboration, publishing, and mobile/web apps for research. Individuals and professional genealogists use Ancestry for its large global record collection, integrated DNA–records matching, and user-friendly research tools.