From: c-thomas@access.digex.com (Chad Thomas)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER FOR CORP R&D  (DC AREA)  (RECRUITER)
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Date: 18 Dec 1992 17:06:17 GMT
Organization: Thomas Search Consultants
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Keywords: AI, knowledge engineering, Lisp, NLP, Recruiter


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   AI SOFTWARE ENGINEER for RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, MTS POSITION
                      Washington, D.C. area
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Corporate research and development group seeks MS/BS with AI skills and an
interest in prototype development in Natural Language Processing (NLP).
 
The successful candidate will support internal research initiatives, existing
contracts, and new business in text understanding, intelligent information
retrieval, machine translation (MT), speech analysis, and related natural
language processing (NLP) technologies. General R&D activities include
technology assessment, design and prototyping, and basic inquiry.
 
This is a junior Member of Technical Staff (MTS) position. If necessary, more
senior members of the group are willing to train the successful candidate in
the NLP area, but candidates' existing software engineering and AI background
must already be solid.
 
QUALIFICATIONS:
 
o    MS in CS (or a BS in CS with 3+ years experience building knowledge
     based systems). CS-related disciplines also acceptable.
 
o    Excellent programming skills required, especially C and Lisp. Emphasis is
     on principled software design and software engineering ability, including
     object-oriented systems (e.g., CLOS).
 
o    Ability to work in cooperative team environment.
 
o    Strong *interest* in NLP required. NLP or MT system development
     experience a plus.
 
o    U.S. Citizenship required.
 
DUTIES:
 
o    Support multiple, varied projects in NLP, MT, and intelligent query
     processing. Work with members of existing team to prototype critical
     aspects of system design for experimental evaluation.
 
o    Participate in evaluation of technical feasibility of applying a range of
     NL-related techniques to defined and emerging applications areas.
 
Position offers excellent opportunities for long-term applied research and
development in NLP, MT, and AI-related technologies in a stable, supportive
environment with multiple resources. Start time immediate.
 
 
SUBMISSION PROCEDURES and RECRUITER'S NOTES:
 
Qualified candidates are encouraged to submit a resume and an accompanying
cover letter/note referencing this posting as "NLP-J".  Your options are:
 
1)   Send materials via e-mail (ASCII only please) to:  wk00106@worldlink.com
 
2)   Send hardcopy via regular mail.  Inclusion of a 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 disk is
     recommended for electronic search purposes.  ASCII or mainstream
     DOS/Windows word processor format please.
 
All submitted resumes are treated with strict confidentiality.  Your resume
will *never* be released to any client without your explicit consent,
following verbal discussion of specific opportunities.  All respondents will
be given careful consideration. However, depending upon response volume, I
regret that I cannot guarantee a personal reply to all respondents.
 
Regrettably, the U.S. Citizenship requirement is inflexible.
 
Regarding general inquiries: Respondents who fit the broad requirements
described for this position but lack key criteria are welcome to send a resume
via e-mail (preferred) or U.S. mail (with disk) for general consideration, but
should expect no immediate reply. Your resume will be keyed and filed and we
will attempt to match you with future or alternative open positions. Please
specify your citizenship.
 
CONTACT INFORMATION:
 
  Chad Thomas
  Thomas Search Consultants
  8409 Lake Crest Terrace               Phone: (703) 643-2226
  Suite B                               Fax:   (703) 643-0712
  Fairfax Station, VA  22039-2678       E-mail: wk00106@worldlink.com
 
  Thomas Search Consultants (TSC) specializes in Human-Computer Interface,
  Artificial Intelligence, and related research and development positions,
  recruiting for a nationwide client base. TSC is located in the greater
  Washington, D.C. metro area.