19 October: fyi -- natural language processing, US
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Department: Engineering
Web Address: http://www.silvercreeksystems.com
Job Rank: Sr. Software Engineer
Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics
Silver Creek Systems seeks a senior software engineer with experience
developing applications incorporating computational linguistics and AI
technologies to join its Engineering team. This person will cooperate
with other developers to augment existing Silver Creek Systems
software and develop new technology to expand our line of automated
product data quality, governance, and integration solutions.
Silver Creek Systems offers next-generation data quality software
that's built from the ground up to adapt product data to the
requirements of today's customer-driven sales & supply chain
requirements. This is a unique opportunity for a bright, energetic,
innovative engineer to work with an outstanding development team on a
breakthrough software product, serving marquee customers.
The Silver Creek Systems' Engineering team has a proven track record
of delivering high quality products. The engineer will work as an
integral member in a RAD team consisting of software development
engineers alongside QA, Product Management, and Customer
Solutions. Effective communication and collaboration is essential to
the engineer's success.
Responsibilities
-Cooperate with other development team members to design and implement new
software or to add or modify functionality of existing software.
-Work primarily with the natural language understanding engine and related
components, including tokenization, parsing, and classification algorithms, and
engineered knowledge infrastructure.
-Develop a thorough understanding of the existing software architecture,
functionality, and implementation, and help maintain existing software.
-Help evaluate and implement improvements to software performance or inference
quality.
Professional Qualifications
-M.S. or better in Computer Science or related field of study.
-7+ years as software engineer.
-Strong analytic and problem solving skills.
-Excellent communication and teamwork.
-Ease with reading, understanding, and maintaining an existing codebase.
-Training and experience in efficient algorithm design.
-Training and experience in computational linguistics, artificial
intelligence, or compiler design.
-Experience developing applications involving understanding and
manipulation natural language.
-Strong object orientation programming experience, especially with Java.
-Work experience in a RAD environment.
-Startup mentality: proactive, optimistic, flexible, adaptable, willing to
be extremely hands-on.
-Be eligible to work in the United States.
Application Deadline: 30-Nov-2006
Contact Information:
Mark Kreider
Email: mkrieder@silvercreeksystems.com
Apply on-line at: http://www.silvercreeksystems.com/about_careers.htm
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