Position: Semantic Technologies Engineer
Company: Exadel
Category: JavaScript
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Work at Exadel - Who We Are:
Since 1998, Exadel has been engineering its own software products and custom software for clients of all sizes. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Exadel currently has 1000+ employees in development centers across America, Europe, and Asia. Our people drive Exadel’s success, and they are at the core of our values, so Exadel is a people-first cultured company.

About the Customer and Project:
The customer provides pharmaceutical and academic researchers with the data they need to make decisions. Some of clients are working on billion-dollar drug discovery projects where early and informed decisions are worth millions. Others are working on innovative projects, such as repurposing existing drugs or trying to predict certain characteristics of candidate substances. All of the customer’s clients are deeply motivated to cure diseases more effectively and improve lives.

The customer’s platform brings together the best in engineering, scientific intelligence, data science, and semantic modeling techniques to put the right tools into the hands of researchers and data scientists to enable them to invent, innovate, and commercialize ideas, products, and processes.

The customer can extract and link data from multiple sources and disciplines, whether publicly available or proprietary, and make this data available to clients. This massively linked dataset is then channeled through their interface where it is vital in making the best decisions, successfully getting a drug to market, and ensuring patient safety.

Responsibilities:
A core part of the project involves building large-scale knowledge graphs that serve world-class applications in the domains of biochemistry and pharmacology. It is an imperative that knowledge graphs follow a representation scheme that ensures a smart and efficient exploitation of its content at scale.
The position will be focusing on implementing the knowledge acquisition solution, modeling, exploitating the semantic data management solution, and programming. In particular, the Semantic Technologies Engineer will be at the forefront of the knowledge representation effort by suggesting and implementing modeling solutions that ensure the best processing and use of the data.

Requirements:
Good сommand of knowledge representation techniques and technologies, semantic modelling, semantic data integration, ontology engineering, etc.
Expert knowledge of Semantic Web Standards (e.g. SHACL, RDF(S), OWL, SPARQL, JSON-LD) and other W3C standards
Knowledge of Semantic API, e.g. Jena
Excellent Programming skills: Java, Scala is a plus, other languages can be considered (e.g. Python)
Agile software development experience and excellent communication skills
Some familiarity with the current trends in Big Data Architecture: Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, Distributed Systems, Parallel Processing Frameworks, Stream/Batch Processing
Affinity with the life sciences and/or chemistry domain is optional
Comfortable work in a fast-moving environment
Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Representation), Computer Science, or a related field. Bachelor Degree could also be considered depending on the profile and experience

Advantages of Working with Exadel:
You can build your expertise with our Sales Support team, who provide assistance with existing and potential projects
You can join any Exadel Community or create your own to communicate with like-minded colleagues
You can participate in continuing education as a mentor or speaker 
You can take part in internal and external meetups as a speaker or listener. We support you in broadening your horizons and encourage knowledge sharing for all of our employees.
You can learn English with the support of native speakers
You can take part in cultural, sporting, charity, and entertainment events
Working at Exadel means always upgrading your skills and proficiency, so we provide plenty of opportunities for professional development. If you’re looking for a challenge that will lead you to the next level of your career, you’ve found the right place. 
We work hard to ensure honest and open relations between employees and leadership, so our offices are friendly environments