30.3156, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Educational Testing Service

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Subject: 30.3156, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Educational Testing Service

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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 12:28:52
From: Dave Yanchuk [dyanchuk at ets.org]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Rank Open, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

 
University or Organization: Educational Testing Service 
Department: Research & Development
Job Location: New Jersey, USA 
Web Address: https://www.ets.org/
Job Title: Research Engineer (Open Rank)
Job Rank: Rank Open

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics 


Description:

Research Engineer (Open Rank)

Educational Testing Service (ETS), with headquarters in Princeton, NJ, is the
world’s premier educational measurement institution and a leader in
educational research. With more than 3,400 global employees, we develop,
administer and score more than 50 million tests annually in more than 180
countries at more than 9,000 locations worldwide.

ETS's Research & Development division is seeking an associate research
engineer in the NLP & Speech research group. The projects in this research
group focus on the application of NLP, speech, dialogue, and multimodal
processing algorithms in automated scoring capabilities for assessment and
learning tasks involving constructed responses (such as essays and spoken
responses). In addition to its signature automated scoring systems for speech
and text assessments, the group is actively pursuing technology innovation in
education and learning spaces by performing foundational research, prototyping
next-generation capabilities, and collaborating with academic and industry
partners. The NLP & Speech research group currently comprises around 20
PhD-level research scientists, 10 research engineers, and 10 research
assistants and administrative staff.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a world-renowned research and
development team and have a significant impact on existing and next-generation
NLP, speech, dialogue, and multimodal systems and their use in educational
applications.

Responsibilities:
- Assist in the implementation of assessment components including NLP, speech
processing, dialogue systems, or multimodal processing.
- Consult with research supervisory staff and analyze, design, modify,
develop, document and implement technologies for executing medium- to
large-scale, complex NLP, speech, dialogue, and multimodal research and
development tasks.  
- Contribute to the implementation and support of new NLP, speech, dialog, and
multimodal methodologies to support research system development.
- Assist in the preparation of research project proposals and cost/resource
estimates and implement components of technical documentation of NLP, speech,
dialogue, and multimodal systems, solutions and results.

Requirements:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, NLP, Cognitive Science, Educational
Technology, Human Computer-Interaction, Language Technology, Computational
Linguistics, Linguistics or a closely related field.
- Strong programming background (preferably in Python), and facility with
computational algorithms are essential. 
- Experience in statistics and using machine learning toolkits (such as
scikit-learn and Tensorflow) are highly desirable.
- Experience with text, speech, dialog, and multimodal processing
tools/frameworks (such as NLTK, Praat, OpenSMILE and Kaldi) is desirable.
- Knowledge of UNIX and Windows computing environments along with UNIX tools,
scripting languages, and tools for managing software projects, and with
algorithms, methods and data structures in common use in the processing of
speech, language, dialogue, and multimodal data.

We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, possible relocation
assistance and excellent opportunities for professional and personal growth.
For a full list of position responsibilities and to apply please visit the
application link provided below.

Educational Testing Service is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer of Women, Minorities, protected Veterans and Individuals with
Disabilities and is a Drug-free workplace.



Application Deadline: 12-Feb-2020 
	  
Web Address for Applications: http://www.Click2Apply.net/t5vb5pm6t9gvcxn7 
Contact Information:
	Dave Yanchuk 
	Email: dyanchuk at ets.org 


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