26.4230, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Engineer, Nuance Communications Inc

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Subject: 26.4230, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Engineer, Nuance Communications Inc

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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:00:28
From: Brandon Gottlieb [Brandon.Gottlieb at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior Research Engineer, Nuance Communications Inc, USA

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications Inc 
Job Location: , USA 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/index.htm
Job Title: Senior Research Engineer - NLU / Speech Recognition
Job Rank: Researcher; Senior Research Engineer - NLU / Speech Recognition

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Overview
 
This position will report initially to Ron Kaplan, Natural Language (NL) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) lab Director.  The major duties will be to support the creation and integration of components developed in the NL/AI lab and to help in the transition of research prototypes into production-level capabilities.  This position will thus serve as a liaision to downstream product and engineering teams. The position will also be responsible for maintaining and extending the platform and interfaces that our research components are embedded in.

Responsibilities:

- Understand, debug, and innovate on a complex end-to-end conversational system
- Provide infrastructure to enable other scientists inside and outside the team to plug in their components. 
- Adapt components existing elsewhere within Nuance to a new problem space and domain. 
- Contribute to the design of components and processes so that they will generalize across domains with a minimum of code changes and human effort.
- Import the conventions and requirements of Nuance engineering and product teams into the research environment so as to reduce the technical barriers and development effort of research-to-product technology transfer.
- Develop and support procedures for software, knowledge, and data integration, testing, and deployment.
- Participate in formal evaluations of natural language and artificial intelligence system capabilities.

Qualifications: Number of Years of Work Experience: 5

Required Skills:

- Solid industrial or academic software engineering experience in projects involving natural language understanding or speech recognition.
- Experience mantaining and debugging large complex systems with solid implementation skills in Java, modern web technologies, UIMA , C++, scripting languages, and source control, build, and release management systems.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with conversational/dialog control and coordination methods and with system components such as query understanding, dialog management, generation, reasoning.  
- Expertise with using speech and/or knowledge-base APIs. Familiarity with both statistical and rule-based methods for natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
 
Education: MS/MA or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or Computational Linguistics


Application Deadline: 31-Oct-2015 
	  
Email Address for Applications: brandon.Gottlieb at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Brandon Gottlieb 
	Email: Brandon.Gottlieb at nuance.com 


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