[Corpora-List] Job: Research position in Text Mining

[cynthia.thompson at us.pwc.com]

Employer:  PricewaterhouseCoopers

http://www.pwc.com 
 
Job Location:  San Jose, California, USA 
Rank or Title:  Programmer 
Linguistic Field(s):  Computational Linguistics, Text Mining 
 
Job Description:  The PwC Center for Advanced Research (CAR) seeks an 
outstanding research programmer with extensive experience in text mining, 
summarization and feature extraction for a groundbreaking R&D project. CAR 
is a technology research and development organization charged with 
creating competitive advantage for PricewaterhouseCoopers by applying 
advanced technology and thinking to important practice problems. Located 
in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Jose office, CAR thrives in a 
unique, collaborative, high performance environment with researchers, 
scientists and subject matter experts from all over the globe. We recruit 
self-motivated people who have a passion for innovation and changing the 
established order. 

The successful candidate will develop powerful, scalable, and easy to use 
tools to extract features, topics and summaries from text documents. The 
tools will be embedded in a predictive data analysis application to be 
used by PwC personnel. The creativity and innovation of the new 
team-member will be central to the creation of a successful data analysis 
and prediction product. 

Responsibilities: 
- Design, implement and manage text mining, text summarization and feature 
extraction tools 
- Develop and deliver long-term vision and architecture for text mining, 
summarization and feature extraction technologies and standards for the 
project; coordinate developments with research management and stakeholders 

- Work with the team to elicit, define, and refine requirements 
- Design, develop, and test scalable Java applications 
- Attend and contribute to design review and code inspections 
- Interact with end users to validate and evaluate software 
- Review and contribute to system documentation 

Requirements: 
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, or related field with at least 3 
years of hands-on professional software development experience. 
- Experience with text and data mining, text summarization, information 
retrieval, feature extraction, data modeling tools and technologies. 
- Experience with the development and documentation of real-world 
applications. 
- Implementation experience in Java/J2EE, preferably on IBM WebSphere 
- Willingness to follow group coding standards and design 
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills 

Highly Desirable to have: 
- Exposure to Social Network Analysis and Machine Learning techniques 
- Experience with Computational Linguistics Technologies 
- Experience with Adobe Flex 
- Experience with Database Technologies (Oracle, Lotus Notes, Trillium, 
Informatica) 
- Exposure to .NET technologies 
- Exposure to Agile Software Development 
- Ability to function independently and as part of a team under aggressive 
deadlines in a fast-paced environment, convey a strong professional image, 
exhibit interest and positive attitude toward all assigned work, and 
strive for continued improvement. The successful candidate will enjoy the 
risk and opportunity of advanced technology development. 

The position is based in San Jose, CA. 
Travel Requirements: less than 10% 
Application Deadline:  Open until filled 

Application URL: 
http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcjobpostings.nsf/DocID/C460DCFB0519C2DF852574EC0015851D?OpenDocument
Contact Information:  Carly  Collins: Carly.Collins at us.pwc.com


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