| More Information: | Natural Language Understanding Developer, Italian, Montreal, Canada
Big Data Careers is looking for a Natural Language Understanding Developer,
Italian. Visa sponsorship is available.
As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will be part of the team
that will develop state-of-the-art multi-modal natural dialog system for mobile
platforms (smartphone, and more). He/She will be building the most advanced
natural dialogue applications for public consumer use cases.
The candidate will be working with cutting edge technology and is expected to do
exploratory work, improving and innovating, while focusing on delivering the
required application features.
The candidate will also work on challenging research problems that have a
concrete impact on real-world applications. The main focus of this is to
enhance our advanced dialog architecture so that it can allow application
developers to author rapidly and intuitively, and tune systematically, highly
performing, potentially multi-modal, natural dialog systems.
Develop and support real-life advanced-dialog applications, systematically
improving their performance and transferring know-how to application groups
Improve existing dialog architecture so that;
General dialog strategies such as corrections, choice navigation, error
detection comes for free from the architecture instead of being programmatically
added for each application
Re-usability from previous applications is optimized
Necessary application specific input/configuration are intuitive and centralized
so that application development is quick and well-defined.
Required: Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent), or Bachelors with 2 years
experience.
Preferred: Ph.D. or Masters plus 4 years of relevant experience.
Strong algorithmic and software skills, especially in Java and in designing
architectures that generalize well.
Accomplished coder with ability to realize research ideas.
Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part
of a team.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
AI and agent-based programming, speech, natural language processing, experience
with Dialog systems, knowledge representation & ontology design, machine
learning, data mining and keen interest in applied research are all preferred
skills for this role.
Degree in computer science, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or
related experience required.
Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com
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