28.2936, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior NLU Research Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Subject: 28.2936, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Senior NLU Research Engineer, Nuance Communications

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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:57:13
From: Dawn Constable [dawn.constable at nuance.com]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Senior NLU Research Engineer, Nuance Communications, Aachen, Germany

 
University or Organization: Nuance Communications 
Job Location: Aachen, Germany 
Web Address: http://www.nuance.com/
Job Title: Senior NLU Research Engineer
Job Rank: Research Engineer

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

At Nuance, we empower people with the ability to seamlessly interact with
their connected devices and the digital world around them.  We are creating a
world where technology thinks and acts the way people do by designing the most
human, natural, and intuitive ways of interacting with technology.
 
Our nimble technology uses analytics and advanced algorithms to transform the
inanimate into animate and reduce complicated processes into simple ones.
 
Join our Mobile team…intelligent systems now ready for the road. We are
passionate about developing intelligent interfaces that enable people to talk
to their cars, phones, devices, and other smart “things”.

Be part of something that’s not even been created yet!
 
At Nuance we are continuously striving to break new ground and to turn more
ideas into reality we have created an Innovations team to engage closely with
customers on new projects and ideas. You will be part of a assignment working
at a truly pioneering level – designing the future for Nuance.
 
Your role within this team will be to develop innovative natural language
processing reference systems for embedded and cloud platforms.
 
Responsibilities:
- Apply embedded and cloud tools to build systems that convert natural speech
in a semantic representation to be used by a dialog system
- Build NLU pipelines that support a broad range of domains that are relevant
in the automotive space
- Interact with researchers within the mobile division and with other research
teams at Nuance
- Advance the state of the art of automotive embedded NLU by developing
innovative systems towards real life deployments, and participate in product
development programs
- Assist with or carry out productization of software, turning research code
into stable production software, optimized for embedded platforms
 
Required Skills:
- Expertise in natural language processing
- Expertise in the state-of-the-art in neural networks, deep learning,
parsing, mention extraction for spoken dialog systems, specifically for NLU
- Strong programming skills, ideally in either Python, Java, and/or C.
- Good user knowledge of Linux and Windows systems
- Skills related to text processing, scripting languages, regular expressions
- Excellent oral and written communications skills in English. 
- Ability to carry out focused and goal-oriented research and development,
ability to assume responsibility for one’s work
- Ability to work in an international team as well as independently in
fast-paced environment
- Ability to creatively develop innovative ideas while leveraging existing
technology with an eye for efficiency.
 
Preferred Skills:
- Good knowledge of speech technology theory
- User interface, human—machine interaction, and dialogue system development
experience
- Operational knowledge of languages other than English
 
Education: Master's degree in computer linguistics, computer science,
mathematics or software engineering



Application Deadline: 05-Oct-2017 
	  
Email Address for Applications: dawn.constable at nuance.com 
Contact Information:
	Dawn Constable 
	Email: dawn.constable at nuance.com 
	Phone: +44 (0)7384 212082 


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