25.4552, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Research Programmer, Stanford University

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Subject: 25.4552, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Research Programmer, Stanford University

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:14:22
From: Prachi Balaji [prachi at cs.stanford.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Research Programmer, Stanford University, California, USA

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University or Organization: Stanford University 
Department: Computer Science
Job Location: California, USA 
Job Title: Research Programmer
Job Rank: Programmer; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 

Description:

Research Programmer, 4P2, 100% FTE, Exempt, 2 Year Fixed with possibility of
extension
Stanford Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science,
School of Engineering

Official application is online at the application website below.
Search for Job Number: 64956

NLP Group Website: http://nlp.stanford.edu/
CS Department website: http://www.cs.stanford.edu/
Professor Christopher Manning’s website: http://nlp.stanford.edu/manning/

Position Summary

The Stanford Natural Language Processing Group in the Department of Computer
Science in the School of Engineering seeks a Research Programmer to join its
team. The Research Programmer reports to Professor Christopher Manning.

The Research Programmer will design, program, extend, maintain, and evaluate
new and existing algorithms and applications to support the objectives of
multiple NLP research projects.   In particular: the person will extend and
build natural language processing software including probabilistic parsers,
relation extraction systems, machine translation systems, semantic role
labelers, co reference resolution systems, and other computational semantics
systems in support of projects funded by the DARPA DEFT program, the Allen
Institute for Artificial Intelligence, NSF grants, and perhaps other programs,
depending on need.

The Stanford NLP Group is a fun, collaborative group providing many
opportunities for hands-on research and teamwork. This person will get to work
closely with graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, and also to participate
in the open source software community: several of our systems are available
and widely used. The position provides great opportunities to develop your
career: The previous occupants of this position have gone on to become the
Chief Product Officer at Facebook, an Assistant Professor following a Computer
Science Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, and an engineer at a Deep Learning start-up
company. The Stanford NLP Group values having a diverse mix of people and is
committed to equal opportunity in employment; we are always pleased to
identify anyone with great qualifications and promise.

Job Details

- Design, program, and test new software and extensions to existing software.
- Debug and evaluate performance of new software and extensions to existing
software.
- Maintain and debug existing software.
- Effectively communicate and work with other group members to develop key
design decisions.
- Document newly written software via source-code comments and higher level
textual descriptions.
- Assist in defining future goals for improving and extending our software
systems.
- Collaborate in writing academic papers and in performing external
evaluations.

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree and three years of relevant experience, or combination of
education and relevant experience.  Computer Science or Symbolic Systems
preferred.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science or Symbolic Systems is preferred.
- Excellent software design skills.
- Good programming skills.
- Experience with Java, and experience with NLP preferred.
- Knowledge of statistical machine learning methods.
- Basic knowledge of statistics.
- Good written and verbal communications skills.
- Ability to make progress on projects by oneself, independently.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to multitask.
- Ability to guide, manage, and successfully integrate software work of
students.

Application Deadline: 30-Jun-2015 (Open until filled)

Web Address for Applications: http://stanfordcareers.stanford.edu/job-search 
Contact Information:
	Prachi Balaji 
	Email: prachi at cs.stanford.edu 

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