Northeastern University College of Engineering

Administration

• Perform ongoing operational tasks within assigned workstream
• Assist principal investigators with proposal and budget preparation
• Follow compliance regulations established by funding agencies and by the university
• Work closely with other BCORe staff, PIs, NU-RES officials and department administrators for proposal submission and award administration
• Assist with identifying sponsored program opportunities for Principal Investigators within the college
• Provide support in monitoring sponsored award spending, payroll and effort oversight, budgets, annual progress report, clean-up and close-out
• Liaise with NU-RES and complete administrative paperwork as required
• Maintain transaction activity logs and awards documents
• Run periodic reports of proposal and award activity and trends within College and related to Bouve Faculty
• Work with Principal Investigators, Administration and sponsors to provide excellent customer service and resolve complex issues related to sponsored project
• Develop and manage relationships across key sponsored research stakeholders; communicate with researchers, administrators, and sponsors to facilitate timely proposal submissions

Grants Administrator

Customer Success Manager

• Manage the student experience for specific programs within the EDGE team
• Advise and assist learners with academic and program concerns
• Work with instructional support team to facilitate learner engagement
• Develop and implement communication and engagement plan for learners
• Organize and attend live sessions and assist with delivery as needed
• Collect information and distribute reporting for learner success metrics

Success Manager

• Assist faculty and departmental administrative staff throughout the grants management life-cycle
• Monitor sponsor award spending for allowability and compliance with federal and sponsor regulations
• Develop and monitor budgets and award burn-rate to confirm good financial standing
• Liaise with NU-RES and complete administrative paperwork as required
• Maintain transaction activity logs and awards documents
• Assist principal investigators with proposal and budget preparation

Grants Administrator, Senior Grants Administrator

Program Manager

• Manage federally funded research programs
• Engage with federal sponsors and end users to gather requirements and feedback
• Coordinate with technical teams to deliver solutions
• Manage program execution to ensure compliance
• Support business development activities

Research Program Manager

Machine Learning Engineer

• Develop AI scoring architecture combining rule-based and LLM components
• Develop prompt engineering strategies for rubric-aligned evaluation
• Implement quantitative indicator scoring (frequency counts, behavioral thresholds)
• Create LLM-based qualitative judgment systems for complex indicators
• Build data processing pipelines for transcript preparation and analysis
• Compare AI ratings against human expert ground truth (n=200+ transcripts)
• Calculate agreement statistics (correlation, Cohen's kappa, confusion matrices)
• Identify systematic rating discrepancies and refine prompts/algorithms
• Implement confidence scoring to flag uncertain AI judgments
• Conduct bias audits across demographic subgroups (gender, race/ethnicity)
• Deploy validated scoring system for 300+ student transcripts
• Create technical documentation for scoring methodology
• Develop user-facing explanations of AI ratings for educators

AI/ML Engineer – Assessment Systems

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Conducting post-award financial management and oversight of awards within the assigned portfolio
• Reviewing and approving/rejecting transactions in Workday or Concur
• Ensuring reporting deadlines are met
• Completing timely award closeout activities
• Performing account reconciliations with varying ranges of complexities
• Preparing financial reports using appropriate internal, federal, or other sponsor-prescribed templates
• Engaging in meetings, trainings, or other activities to provide customer service and support

Research Finance Analyst

Project Manager

• Support the Amicus program team under the leadership of the Program Director
• Responsible for administrative, communications, logistical, and programmatic elements of the project
• Assist on a variety of impactful projects
• Create, maintain and monitor project documentation
• Ensure project timelines and deliverables are met
• Coordinate with diverse stakeholders on action items
• Develop and maintain databases for tracking individuals and organizations engaged in the project
• Manage logistical arrangements for programming
• Draft communications and update the website