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The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international
context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language
Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill an immediate
vacancy for a *Technical Engineer* position.
*Job description*
Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the *Technical
Engineer* include planning and implementing technical development of
tools, software components or applications for language resource
production and management.
He/she will be in charge of contributing in the current language
resources production workflows and managing R&D projects while being
also hands-on whenever required by the language resource production and
management team. He/she will liaise with external partners at all phases
of the projects (submission to calls for proposals, building and
management of project teams) within the framework of international,
publicly- or privately-funded projects.
This yields excellent opportunities for creative and motivated
candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering
field.
The position is based in Paris 13.
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 45-55K€).
Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers.
*Required profile*
• Master 2 or PhD in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing,
or equivalent
• Experience in Natural Language Processing (speech processing, data
mining, machine translation, etc.)
• Familiarity with open source and free software
• Good level of English, with strong writing and documentation skills
• Dynamic and communicative, flexible to work on different tasks in
parallel
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country
• Proficiency in Python
• Knowledge and hands-on in XML and Json
• Proficiency in classic shell scripting in a Linux environment
(POSIX tools, Bash, awk)
*About*
ELDA is a human-sized company (15 people) acting as the distribution
agency of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ELRA was
established in February 1995, with the support of the European
Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language
Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for
language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text
corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this non-profit
membership Association is to promote the production of LRs, to collect
and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users. The
association also gathers information on market needs and trends.
For further information about ELDA/ELRA, visit: http://www.elda.org
<http://www.elda.org>
Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to:
ELDA
9 rue des Cordelières
75013 Paris FRANCE
Email:j...@elda.org <mailto:j...@elda.org>
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