| More Information: | Title Research Software Developer III (Java)
Department Medicine-Endocrinology
Job Posting Description We have a job opening for an analyst/programmer in the
field of Biomedical Natural Language Processing. Below is a rough outline of
the kind of candidate we are looking for. The position is in the Children's
Hospital Informatics Program (CHIP). Children's Hospital Boston is in the
Longwood Medical Area campus of Harvard University.
This position will support software development efforts for natural language
processing (NLP) research of the clinical narrative within the Electronic
Medical Record (EMR). Primary responsibilities include: annotator design,
development, and testing with a focus on algorithm development, application, and
evaluation.
Qualifications: Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or related
field. Graduate degree in one of these fields with 3+ years of software
development experience is preferred. A combination of education and experience
may be considered. Experience working with NLP modules such as tokenizers,
parsers, and part-of-speech taggers is strongly preferred.
Experience in software development using an object oriented programming language
is required with preference given to Java/J2EE technologies.
Experience with parsing, generating, and transforming XML is required as well as
tools such as ANT, Lucene, relational databases. Familiarity with UNIX operating
systems is desirable. Must be willing to work and assimilate into a team
environment and also possess the skills to work independently. Must possess
excellent analytical, problem-solving, and technical design skills. Strong oral
and written communication and interpersonal skills are required. This is a
full-time position with normal working hours Monday through Friday. Isolated
overtime is expected. Candidate must be willing to remain in this position for a
minimum of three years. In addition to the required skills experience,
familiarity in the following environments and technologies is preferred:
Eclipse, GATE, UIMA, Weka, SQL, UML, and Perl. Familiarity with machine-learning
methods, UMLS, ontologies is desirable. Desire to learn new tools, e.g.
Protégé, Knowtator.
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Status Full Time - 40 Hours
Shift Day
Schedule (i.e. Mon. - Fri.) Mon-Fri
Standard Hours per Week 40.00
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| Notes: | https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_home.asp?partnerid=368&siteid=5204,
then Search openings, then in Keyword type "natural language
processing". Two positions (junior and senior) will come up. This is the
senior one. Students interested in applying for this position should contact
Fei. |