27.578, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Software Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 27.578, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Software Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:52:02
From: TJ Leahy [TJ.Leahy at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Software Engineer, Nuance Communications, Merelbeke, Belgium

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Merelbeke, Belgium 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/
Job Title: Software Engineer - Natural Language Processing
Job Rank: Other; Software Engineer - Natural Language Processing

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Nuance Healthcare, a division of Nuance Communications, is the market leader
in providing clinical understanding solutions that accurately capture and
transform the patient story into meaningful, actionable information. Thousands
of hospitals, providers and payers worldwide trust Nuance speech-enabled
clinical documentation and analytics solutions to facilitate smarter, more
efficient decisions across the healthcare enterprise.  Nuance Healthcare has
been recognized as “Best-in-KLAS” 2004-2011 for Speech Recognition.  

Job Responsibilities: 

The NLP Software Engineer will contribute to the development of new NLP
(Natural Language Processing)-based applications and support their rollout in
the market. He will do this through CLU-pipeline improvements and CLU-engine
tuning by applying machine learning algorithms on medical corpora. This person
will report to the Manager Software Development for CLU applications.
 
- Participate in projects from requirements analysis to QA.
- Develop and improve NLP-applications through rules(-learning), making use of
annotated corpora.
- Improve the CLU-engine by developing/improving new CLU pipeline components.
- Take control of fine-tuning our NLP-applications for new customers.
- Actively participate as a scrum team member in all phases of the scrum
process.
- Troubleshoot application defects.
- Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment.
- Effectively work with multiple stakeholders and teams located in different
geographical locations.

Qualifications: 

- 2-4 years of professional experience.
- A medical/biology background or affinity with the medical terminology.
- 2+ years experience with JAVA development or another OO-language
- Experience with the processing of big data, preferably in a cloud
environment.
- Comfortable being part of a team, especially a geographically dispersed
team.
- Motivated to be a self-starter and individual performer effectively
contributing to overall team productivity and collaboration.
- Excellent English communication skills (written, oral, listening).
- Passion and enthusiasm.

Preferred Skills:

- Experience with machine learning and NLP.
- Willing to travel internationally a couple times a year.

Education:

- Master/PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Medical
Informatics, Bio-engineering/Biomedical Sciences or equivalent though
experience.



Application Deadline: 04-Apr-2016 (Open until filled)
	  
Contact Information:
	TJ Leahy 
	Email: TJ.Leahy at nuance.com 


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