11.1591, Jobs: Programming/Localization: Developer/SAP/Germany

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Subject: 11.1591, Jobs: Programming/Localization: Developer/SAP/Germany

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Date:  20 Jul 2000 08:22:13 -0000
From:  Daniel Grasmick <daniel.grasmick at sap.com>
Subject:  Programming for Localization: Developer/SAP, Baden-Württemberg Germany

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Date:  20 Jul 2000 08:22:13 -0000
From:  Daniel Grasmick <daniel.grasmick at sap.com>
Subject:  Programming for Localization: Developer/SAP, Baden-Württemberg Germany


Rank of Job: Developer
Areas Required: Programming for Localization
Other Desired Areas: Natural Language Processing
University or Organization: SAP
Department: Multilingual Technology
State or Province: Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany
Final Date of Application: 10.08.2000
Contact: Daniel Grasmick daniel.grasmick at sap.com

Address for Applications:
Neutrottstr. 16
Walldorf
Baden-Württemberg D-69190
Germany

Position int/ 2959

Localization Tool Developer for the SAP
translation environment and integration of NLP technology

Date		 		15.06.2000
Job Title	 		Localization Tool Developer
Deadline for Applications		10.08.2000

General Description

You will be a member of the SAP groups Application Engineering
Workbench (AEW)/MultiLingual Technology (MLT).  Both groups are part
of the area Basis Development in which all tools for the SAP
environment are developed.  The MultiLingual Technology group (MLT)
provides linguistic and technical support for multilingual tools used
in SAP in-house documentation development and translation as well as
for external agencies.

Support is provided for both commercial tools, in the field of Machine
Translation METAL/T1/Comprendium and Logos and in the field of
Translation Memory Trados, and for SAP proprietary tools for
documentation and translation.  The group is also working on new
solutions in other fields of NLP including terminology management.

Duties

You will participate in the conception of the new innovative SAP
Intranet/Internet translation environment and its construction and
administration.  This position offers you the opportunity to
contribute to the creation of a role-based solution. You will
collaborate on the development of an optimally adapted solution for
each of the different user roles (e.g. SAP internal or external
translator, project manager, support staff, etc).  You will work
alongside experienced R/3 tool developers, MLT support and language
specialists. Your areas will be SAP's translation editor, the
Knowledge Warehouse, Machine Translation, Translation Memory,
Terminology Management.... You will develop a completely new
configurable solution for all translation tools and services users.

Required Skills

We are more than willing to consider motivated graduates with some
experience of or a strong interest in the above listed areas.

Following initial training the successful applicant will soon be ready
to take on responsibility for the development of new solutions.

  An honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science and/or
  Computational Linguistics

  Knowledge of one or more of the following programming
  languages ABAP, VC++, VB (COM) and Java

  Experience in the development of Web applications (knowledge
  of HTML and Java Script)

  An eye for the graphical layout of user interfaces

  Experience with NLP-tools would be a definite plus

  Excellent teamwork and communication skills

  Good working knowledge of English, some knowledge of German
  would be advantageous

Location Walldorf, Germany

Contact Person

For more information please contact Daniel Grasmick (MLT)
by e-mail: daniel.grasmick at sap.com,
or by telephone: + 49 (0) 6227-741918.

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