| I'm a staffing consultant. My background as an MA/Linguistics has
led me to specialize in Knowledge Management specialities: Ontologists,
Data Mining, Computational Linguists, and other related fields.
I currently have positions available with dynamic start-up
companies, pre-IPO, with stock options and great work conditions.
These companies are in Washington DC, Bay Area of California, and
Denver.
There are opportunities for a Data Mining Scientist, Senior-level
Ontologists (PhD in CS or Linguisitics), and junior level (grad degree with
experience building ontologies), as well as Natural Language Processing
specialists, and Computational Linguists/Programmers.
I'm pasting in a few of the current job openings below. If you know of
anyone who would be appropriate for these positions, please have them
contact me immediately. Also, please pass these opportunities on to
others.
Kent Clizbe
[email protected]
703-222-6627
PS: In addition, I am working with a professor, a world-renowned
expert, head of a specialized Data Mining Lab, with more than 25 years
experience and hundreds of research publications in Data Mining and
related fields. This professor is considering his options in the
private sector. Could you provide any advice or suggestions for
companies/research labs which might hire someone with those credentials?
Position Title: Data Mining Scientist
My client is an independent not-for-profit company that provides
technical support to the government. Operating three Federally Funded
Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), my client operates as a strategic
partner with its sponsoring government agencies. This relationship permits
a degree of access and long-term perspective not available to commercial
contractors who compete for government business. My client employs
approximately 4,500 technical and support staff at its headquarters
in Bedford, MA and northern VA, and at more than 60 sites throughout the
world.
Desired Education
MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related field
Desired Experience:
Experience in machine learning, statistics, or pattern recognition.
Experience implementing and applying data mining techniques.
Database, programming and general UNIX skills.
Experience in statistical data mining or machine learning, neural
networks, or Bayesian reasoning. Experience with decision trees/rules
alone is not acceptable.
Work environment:
My client's data mining group is appropriately situated in the same
organization as both the database research group and the modeling and simulation
department which contains further AI expertise. You will not lack from motivated,
knowledgeable people to talk with and tap as resources. The cultural benefits of
living about 30 miles from Washington, DC are fairly obvious and too numerous to
mention.
You will work with a group of dedicated, fun, intelligent people on a
variety of tasks and efforts. Some projects are very applied, implementing
data mining tools and techniques for a particular, real-world environment.
Other efforts involve more research, often extending the state-of-the-art.
A unique aspect of my client's environment
is the opportunity to work in a variety of different areas.
U.S. citizenship is required for this position.
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Position: Computational Linguist/Natural Language Processing Programmer
Location: Washington DC
Our client applies the most advanced techniques in computational
linguistics to the problems of communicating information over the
web.
Our client's founder has been in charge of technology
for two previous startups, both of which were sold to larger
corporations. One of these was acquired for $38 million when only 8
months old. Financial backing for our client comes from a group of
extremely successful high-tech executives, who have been collectively
responsible for the creation of billions of dollars of value through
companies they have founded, funded, and managed.
My client is an Internet software start-up developing natural-
language-understanding applications. They offer interesting and
challenging
work in a casual environment in Washington DC.
We are looking for five Computational Linguists for permanent
positions starting immediately. Our ideal candidate would have a
background combining some computational linguistics research with
experience developing commercial software.
Required:
Very strong C++ skills and experience with industrial-strength NT or
UNIX server applications.
Other Desirable skills/experience include:
- C++ STL
- COM, ATL
- CORBA
- C++/Java integration
- multithreaded programming
- information retrieval/search
- web-based distributed apps
- WordNet applications
Strong written English skills are essential; knowledge of other languages
is a
big plus.
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Position Title: Senior Ontologist (one vacancy)
Location: California
Responsibilities:
* Provide leadership and direction to corporate knowledge representation
effort.
* Organize and manage an on-going large-scale biological knowledge
representation production effort.
* Coordinate the efforts of team-members involved in ontology building.
* Coordinate efforts of subject matter expert transfer of knowledge to
the representation team.
Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies.
* Experience managing staff in knowledge representation projects
* Experience working with subject matter experts
* Ability to complete projects on time and within budget
Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research
Required Educational Background:
* Graduate level degree in a field related to Ontology: Linguistics,
* Computational Linguistics, Computer Science
Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Computational Linguistics with in-depth research in
Ontologies
Salary: $90k-130k
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Position Title: Ontologist (four vacancies)
Location: California
Reports to: Senior Ontologist
Responsibilities: Build ontologies in a team of knowledge
representation experts. Gather, analyze and categorize biological
knowledge from diverse sources. Work with subject matter experts
to accurately present knowledge.
Required Competencies:
* Experience building ontologies, or in electronic publishing mark-up
languages, or related categorizing specialties.
* Experience in commercial world.
Desired Competencies:
* Knowledge of Biological issues and vocabulary
* Experience in genetic and protein-related research
* Data modeling experience in bio-technology
Required Educational Background:
Degree in a field related to Biology or Medicine, Linguistics or Computer
Science
Desired Educational Background:
PhD in Biology with research in computational data modeling.
Salary: $60k-80k
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Position Title: Natural Language Processing Specialist (one vacancy)
Location: California
Reports to: Senior Ontologist
Responsibilities: Knowledge extraction from medical/biomedical text
corpus in support of knowledge representation product.
Required Educational Background:
MS in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics
Salary: $80k-100k
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POSITION: SR. APPLICATIONS ENGINEER
Location: Washington DC
DEPARTMENT: INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS
JOB DESCRIPTION:
This position is a member of a group that is developing an
enterprise-level document management application within the Intelligence
Community. Responsibilities include configuration and customization of
electronic document management COTS products, user interface design and
development (web and client/server), workflow analysis and
engineering, and programming in 4GL languages. The work typically
involves use of APIs to accomplish integration with COTS products,
and requires familiarity with RDBMS concepts and SQL.
EDUCATION:
BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
Subject-matter expertise with the US Intelligence or DoD Communities a
plus.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
A minimum of three years hands-on experience in Visual Basic
applications development and programming.
A minimum of two years hands-on experience with web-related
technologies and web content delivery.
Knowledge of SQL and database concepts.
Familiarity with web site authoring tools, web browsers and their
unique limitations, as well as programmatic methods for client/server
interaction with data repositories.
A team player with effective communications skills.
DESIRED SKILLS:
Familiarity with structured markup languages, such as SGML and XML.
Familiarity with integration of the web with content management,
conversion, and search and retrieval tools.
Experience with Intelligence Community activities and technical
solutions ( i.e. Intelink, intelligence gathering, analysis, and
dissemination.)
Experience in any of the following products or languages:
Documentum EDMS / DocPage Builder
Oracle RDBMS
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server
Adobe Acrobat Plug-ins
MS Office development and integration
HTML and VB User Interface Development
Java, Java script
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