13 September: FYI -- R&D, ELDA (Paris, FR)
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The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context,
acting as the distribution agency of the European Language Resources
Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for a
Senior Research and Development Engineer position.
*Senior Research and Development Engineer (m/f)*
Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Senior R&D
Engineer include designing, developing, documenting, deploying and maintaining
tools, software components or web applications for language resource
production and management, as well as carrying out quality control and
assessment of language resources.
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, Electrical Engineering, Natural Language
Processing, or equivalent
• Experience in Natural Language Processing (speech processing, data
mining, machine translation, etc.)
• Experience in managing a multi-disciplinary team
• Proficiency in classic shell scripting in a Linux environment (POSIX
tools, Bash, awk)
• Proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience in Django
• Good knowledge of Javascript and CSS
• 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)
• Good knowledge of basic Computer Science algorithms
• Familiarity with open source and free software
• Knowledge of a statically typed functional programming language (OCaml
preferred) is a strong plus
• Proficiency 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:
ELDA
9, rue des Cordelières
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Mail : job@elda.org
ELDA is acting as the distribution agency of the European Language Resources
Association (ELRA). ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of
the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of
Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for
language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text
corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this non-profit
membership Association is to promote the production of LRs, to collect and to
validate them and, foremost, make them available to users. The association
also gathers information on market needs and trends.
For further information about ELDA/ELRA, visit:
http://www.elda.org
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