[Corpora-List] Educational Testing Service - Senior Research Scientist Position

[Burstein, Jill C]

Educational Testing Service (ETS) in Princeton, NJ, USA has an open position for a Senior Research Scientist in the NLP & Speech Group.

TITLE:  Senior Research Scientist

BASIC FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Take lead responsibility for conceptualizing, proposing, obtaining funding for, and directing major projects and integrated programs of research and/or development in Natural Language Processing.

Projects and programs may include (1) research projects supporting the development of technology for assessment and instruction, (2) development projects that use scientific principles to create (a) tools to improve the efficiency or quality of the practice of test development or statistical analysis; (b) innovative item types that lend themselves to automated evaluation with NLP methods; or (c) the evaluation of responses to open-ended test items and (3) development projects that use scientific principles to create new products or product prototypes for assessment and instruction. Major projects may be cross-disciplinary, may have substantial budgets, and are likely to involve the coordination of, and collaboration with many individuals internally and possibly externally to ETS, may be conducted across several years, and may produce multiple deliverables.

Be an equal partner in generating or contributing to new knowledge or capabilities, and in applying new knowledge and capabilities to existing and/or new ETS products and services in support of assessment or instructional practice.  New knowledge may take the form of new or modified educational or NLP theories; new research methodology; new development methodology; new statistical, analytic or interpretative procedures; new test designs and item types; new approaches to scoring examinee responses; and new approaches to reporting.  New capabilities include developing software to instantiate new and existing knowledge.

Document and disseminate the results of research and/or development projects and programs through a significant portfolio of publications and presentations that have impact on the field and/or on ETS.  Publication includes peer-review journals, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, patents, books and book chapters, and other print media.  Presentations may be at international, national, or regional conferences, client meetings, and ETS seminars.

Participate in setting substantive research and development goals, priorities, and policies for R&D. Serve on ETS and on external policy and planning committees.

Actively seek input from peers on the quality of one's work as a habit of mind. Actively seek opportunities to provide constructive criticism to peers so as to improve the quality of their work.  Conduct journal and conference proposal reviews. Be sought as a reviewer for the ETS RR series and provide thorough, responsive reviews.  Be regularly invited and serve as an ad-hoc journal reviewer.

Act as a mentor to junior scientists and other R&D staff, developing several continuing mentoring relationships.  Work directly with those staff members, modeling the behaviors and values expected of a senior scientist and guiding them in the development of those same behaviors.

Provide leadership in the development of proposals and budgets for major projects and/or assist in development for integrated programs of research.  Actively seek and obtain financial support.

Consult on testing program, R&D management, or other ETS management concerns. Consult with ETS clients on behalf of testing programs, R&D management, or other areas of ETS.

Manage major projects, and/or assist in the management of integrated programs, involving staff assignment and scheduling, budgeting, acquisition and utilization of equipment, interaction with other areas of R&D and ETS, and interaction with one or more external collaborators.

Develop a significant network of external professional relationships and work to deepen the scientist's identity.  Play a significant role in managing the activities of one or more organizations substantively related to the work of ETS (e.g., serving as a committee chair, workshop organizer, or program chair, in addition to member and regular presenter).

EDUCATION
A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Linguistics, or Cognitive Psychology is required.

EXPERIENCE
Eight years of independent research experience providing evidence of continuing and substantial contributions to projects in the domain of computational linguistics is necessary.  Experience in the development of end-to-end systems is preferred. Proficiency in Java, Python, or Perl programming languages is desirable.


Apply online here: http://ets.pereless.com/careers/index.cfm?fuseaction=83080.viewjobdetail&CID=83080&JID=143541&type=True&cfcend

For more information please contact David Yanchuk (HR, (609) 406-5291, dyanchuk AT ets.org) or Jill Burstein (Managing Principal Research Scientist, jburstein AT ets.org).


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