Research Software Developer w/ Ornarose, Inc. (short term, Chicago or NJ)

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Company: Ornarose Inc.

Location: Northern New Jersey or Chicago, IL

Title: Research Software Developer - Data
Mining/Statistics/Text Classification

Requirements:

     B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in computer science, statistics,
applied mathematics, or related field.

     5+ years professional software development experience.

     2+ years professional experience with one or more of the
following: machine learning, data mining, statistics, pattern
recognition, numerical optimization, numerical analysis.

     Experience with designing and running computational
experiments in computer science or statistics highly
desirable.  Also desirable is experience in information
retrieval, text categorization, natural language processing,
computational linguistics, or text mining.

     C and Perl proficiency required. C++ proficiency
desirable.

     Unix/Linux experience required.  Windows experience
desirable.

     Excellent verbal and written communication skills in
English.

     Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and communicate
effectively when working from home.

Responsibilities:

     This is a short-term (5 to 6 month) position for an
SBIR-supported startup company.  Developer will be
responsible for prototyping and testing advanced algorithms
for supervised and unsupervised learning, prediction,
classification, etc.  Work also includes preparation and
cleaning of large text and non-text data sets,
experimentation with new algorithms and modeling techniques,
and measuring the effectiveness of these techniques and
their demands for computing resources.
 
     Interested candidates should send a resume (leads also
welcome) in ASCII or PDF to job2003a at ornarose.com.

     Ornarose, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
Because the position begins immediately, the candidate must
be eligible to work legally in the United States throughout
2003.