Oct-09-2018, 04:05 PM
Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the R&D Engineer include designing, developing, documenting, deploying and maintaining tools, software components or applications for language resource production and management.
He/she will be in charge of managing the current language resources production workflows and co-ordinating ELDA’s participation in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever required by the language resource production and management team. He/she will liaise with external partners at all phases of the projects (submission to calls for proposals, building and management of project teams) within the framework of international, publicly- or privately-funded research and development projects.
This yields excellent opportunities for creative and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering field.
Profile:
• PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, or equivalent
• Experience in Natural Language Processing (speech processing, data mining, machine translation, etc.)
• Proficiency in classic shell scripting in a Linux environment (POSIX tools, Bash, awk)
• Good level in Python
• Knowledge of a distributed version control system (Git, Mercurial)
• Knowledge of SQL and of RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Knowledge of XML and of standard APIs (DOM, SAX)
• Familiarity with open source and free software
• Knowledge of a statically typed functional programming language (OCaml preferred) is a plus
• Good level in French and English, with strong writing and documentation skills in both languages
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to work on different tasks in parallel
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to: job@ELDA.org
He/she will be in charge of managing the current language resources production workflows and co-ordinating ELDA’s participation in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever required by the language resource production and management team. He/she will liaise with external partners at all phases of the projects (submission to calls for proposals, building and management of project teams) within the framework of international, publicly- or privately-funded research and development projects.
This yields excellent opportunities for creative and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering field.
Profile:
• PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, or equivalent
• Experience in Natural Language Processing (speech processing, data mining, machine translation, etc.)
• Proficiency in classic shell scripting in a Linux environment (POSIX tools, Bash, awk)
• Good level in Python
• Knowledge of a distributed version control system (Git, Mercurial)
• Knowledge of SQL and of RDBMS (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Knowledge of XML and of standard APIs (DOM, SAX)
• Familiarity with open source and free software
• Knowledge of a statically typed functional programming language (OCaml preferred) is a plus
• Good level in French and English, with strong writing and documentation skills in both languages
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to work on different tasks in parallel
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to: job@ELDA.org