Natural Language Processing Scientist II/III
Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: RICHLAND, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time
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<td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Natural Language Processing Scientist II/III<BR>Organization and Job ID<BR>Job ID: 301731<BR>Directorate:<BR><BR>National Security <BR>Division: Computational & Statistical Analytics<BR><BR><BR>Group: Knowledge Discovery & Informatics<BR>Job Description<BR>This position requires significant contributions to the development and evolvement of natural language processing research at PNNL. The incumbent will possess skills in both natural language processing and software design and development. Expertise in natural language processing should include one or more applications including, but not limited to, information extraction, knowledge base population, machine reading, sentiment analysis and social media analytics. Software development skills should include, but are not limited to, object oriented programming and development, data modeling, building demonstrable and functional prototypes, and contributing to deployment-ready software.<BR>In carrying out these duties, the incumbent will be responsible for maintaining strategic alliances with specified clients, managing individual or small team assignments for multiple projects, performing assignments with minimal oversight, working effectively within interdisciplinary development teams, and contributing to proposals, publications and presentations. <BR>Specific responsibilities include:<BR>- apply computational linguistics approaches and algorithms <BR>- contribute to the translation of client requests and needs into a set of project requirements and tasks<BR>- contribute to software design <BR>- construct functional applications and prototypes using PHP, Perl, Python and Java<BR>- perform algorithmic development and implementation, especially as they pertain to NLP<BR>- evaluate natural language processing methods and results<BR>- develop client server and database aware applications<BR>- design and implement graphical user interfaces<BR>- develop on Linux and Windows environments<BR>- effectively manage individual tasks, schedule, workload, budget, and deadlines<BR>- contribute to technical presentations and demonstrations of designs, prototypes and operational software to existing and potential clients; group, division, and sector managers<BR>- contribute to or lead efforts in publishing research<BR>- help grow the natural language processing business portfolio through proposal writing and client engagement<BR>Responsibilities & Accountabilities:<BR>This position reports to the Technical Group manager for Knowledge Discovery and Informatics within PNNLs National Security Directorate, and is responsible for work activity as assigned by PNNL project managers for both internal and external clients. The incumbent is expected to develop knowledge of the goals of any projects to which they are assigned and the clients they support. The incumbent is expected to maintain a customer-service focus commensurate with this position. <BR>The incumbent normally receives task instructions from their project managers, which are performed with minimal oversight. The incumbent will work both as task </font></td>
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