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Yahoo! Inc.
Posting date: 3/23/2008
Yahoo Search Researcher
International Web Search Relevance Team
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Yahoo Web Search is passionate on building the best search engine on the planet! Our product now powers about half of the searches done on the Internet. Search is one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet! It is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. We are looking for world class, fun-loving researchers to join our International Web Search team! If you have a desire to be part of building the fastest, biggest, and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to me.
Belle Tseng, Ph.D.
Senior Manager, Yahoo
belle at yahoo-inc.com
Job Responsibilities
We are looking for a few search researchers with strong background in information retrieval and machine learning to join the Yahoo Web Search International Relevance Team. Your essential responsibility is to focus on improving the search relevance for international languages and regions. This extremely challenging task requires a good understanding of not only the general relevance technology, but also how languages differ around the world and how the usage of the web and search engines changes from region to region. As a senior member of the team you will play a leading role in project/product design and development. Your long term responsibility includes deep understanding and analyzing the search relevance issues, mining the large corpora of web text data and query logs, designing and developing better ways to improve search relevance, which may include machine learning in ranking, natural language processing, entity extraction, and text classification. In short term, you will start with certain internationalization project of existing Yahoo search technologies for which the extensive machine learning and linguistic analysis knowledge and experience are needed. A suitable candidate for this position will be a highly motivated person with innovated ideas and solid coding skills, who will be able to work closely with other team members and collaborate with International engineering team and various parts of general relevance teams.
Minimum Job Qualifications
* Experience in statistical modeling, machine learning, computational linguistics, NLP, feature extraction, and data mining, ideally on a Web scale.
* Experience or interest in search engines and information retrieval.
* Solid statistical knowledge and intuition.
* Fluency in Python, Perl, or another scripting language desired.
* Experience in C or C++.
* Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with people from a variety of technical background.
Preferable Job Qualifications
* Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent.
* Minimum two years of industrial experience.
* Native speaker of English, French, German, or Spanish.
* Experience with Matlab, S-Plus, R, or other statistical tools.
* Knowledge of Unicode and internationalization.
* Established track record in research and publication of IR, ML, NLP, CL and related fields.
* Project R&D skills in industrial environment.
About Yahoo!
The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.
In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.
How Big Can You Think?
Are you a highly motivated person and really want to work on something that is the number one in the world ? Are you full of creative ideas and also detail oriented in analyzing and solving hard problems ? Are you a hands-on person who can quickly implement the ideas into the product features.
Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com.
Amazon.com
Posting date: 2/5/2008
Qualified MS and PhD students contact schwan@cc.
HP Labs
Posting date: 2/5/2008
Hewlett-Packard Labs is seeking well qualified PhDs to fill open research scientist positions (full-time, visiting scientist, post-doc, and intern) in its architecture and systems research program. The position focuses on systems and architectural issues and we are looking for candidates with a strong background in parallel programming, networking, memory systems, interconnects, virtualizaton, simulation, transactional memory, multi-cores, or blade servers. Candidates should be comfortable working in small teams and should have experience building experimental hardware and/or software systems for conducting their research. Please contact arch-hiring at hpl.hp.com for additional details.
Senior Research Scientist, Deutsche Telekom Lab/TU-Berlin
Posting date: 1/28/2008
Job openings for: Senior Research Scientist at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
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Deutsche Telekom, Europe's leading telecommunications company, is expanding its corporate research and development centre - Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - in Germany's vibrant capital Berlin in collaboration with the Technische Universitaet Berlin.
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories mission is to explore and develop new information and communication technologies that lay the foundations for Deutsche Telekom's future products and services.
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories comprises a Strategic Research Laboratory and an application-oriented Innovation Development Laboratory.
As a joint venture between a company at the cutting edge of information technology and a leading German research university, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories offer an unprecedented combination of academic freedom, practical focus, and the resources of a major corporation. Deutsche Telekom Laboratories are housed on the campus of the Technische Universitaet Berlin with about 30,000 students and several research institutes working in various areas of information and communication technology.
Our Strategic Research Laboratory already includes around 50 senior research scientists and doctoral candidates, and has several openings for highly qualified
Senior Research Scientists
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in the broad areas of
* Security (network and systems security)
* Networking (network architecture, wireless networking, network applications, network services)
* Systems (virtualization, mobile operating systems)
* Human interface (quality and usability evaluation, interaction design, multimedia interface technologies, multimodal interactive systems)
Successful applicants will have recently completed a doctoral degree, e.g., in computer science, electrical engineering, or other disciplines related to the areas mentioned, and be enthusiastic about the unique opportunity to conduct leading-edge research with immediate impact on the products and services of a major telecoms company.
Please send your application as early as possible but no later than by February 29, 2008. Outstanding candidates will be invited to give a presentation and have interviews with members of the Recruiting Committee in Berlin. The next symposium is planned for the weekend of March 27-28, 2008. Please consult the web site for possible date changes.
Application materials should include, in a single pdf file in this order, (a) cover letter, (b) one-page statement of research objectives, (c) curriculum vitae, (d) list of publications, and (e) contact information of at least three individuals who may serve as references. Applications shall be submitted to the attention of Prof. Anja Feldmann or Prof. Sebastian Moeller
Please send your application online or submit your application as a pdf file by using the following e-mail address: laboratories.researchscientist at telekom.de
Cisco, Open Source Group
Posting date: 1/25/2008
Open Source Job Opportunities
Cisco is hiring Open Source engineering professionals in San Jose, California, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and Richardson, Texas.
Join the group that will change the way Cisco develops software. Be part of the Cisco organization that is driving the evolution and expansion into new technology areas and market segments. This group is responsible for building the next generation platform on an open source *NIX platform.
Open Source Software Developers, Test Engineers and Administrators with the following backgrounds:
FreeBSD, C, UNIX, embedded, RTOS, MIPS and/or PowerPC, multi-threaded multi-processor Operating Systems, Linux, IOS device drivers, network management software, device drivers, manageability, network protocols, network devices, open source tools, white-box testing, Python, Perl, Eclipse.
Program or Project Managers with following backgrounds:
UNIX (and its variants), multi-threaded multi-processor Operating Systems, Agile methods, common manageability environments
CONTACT:
Please contact recruiter Brent Rogers at breroger at cisco.com for more information.
VIEW AND APPLY TO ALL CISCO JOBS:
www.cisco.apply2jobs.com
LBNL, Future Technologies Group
Posting date: 1/25/2008
http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=21169&p=1 (staff positions)
http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=21405&p=1 (group leader)
The LBNL Future Technologies Group (FTG) is a research group with projects in the following areas: operating systems for petascale systems, parallel programming models and compilers, performance modeling, and performance evaluation of parallel systems. The overarching goal of the group is to enable computational science through the design and development of hardware and software systems that allow application scientists to more effectively use high end machines. As such, members of FTG work closely with application scientists throughout the DOE Office of Science community (e.g., climate modeling, astrophysics, fusion simulation, life sciences and nanoscience), with faculty and students from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at U.C. Berkeley, and with the NERSC production computing facility. Group members have access to leading-edge production computing platforms as well as hardware prototypes of experimental systems. FTG members have a strong history of publications in top journals and conferences and have developed software systems that are broadly used outside the group. Current FTG projects include: the UPC language and compiler project, the APEX-Map benchmarking project, ultra-scale performance evaluation projects, and FastOS Operating System projects.
AT&T Labs - Research
Posting date: 1/7/2008
AT&T Labs-Research has multiple positions open this year in all three centers. See flyer for additional information. Visit link for application.
Faculty Position, Jacobs University, Bremen
Posting date: 12/19/2007
Description
The School of Engineering and Science at Jacobs University Bremen invites applications for a
Professorship in Wireless Communications (Ref. 2160-08-ee)
beginning in August 2008.
AND
Professorship in Computer Science in the field of Automation (Ref. 2160-08-cs)
beginning in August 2008.
Applicants are expected to have an outstanding track record in acquiring and managing research projects and third party funding. Candidates should have a background including knowledge in CAD/CAM, mechatronics, and intelligent handling-, assembly-, or transportation-systems.
Applicants are expected to have an outstanding track record in acquiring and managing research projects and third party funding. Candidates should have knowledge in physical transport as well as system and networking aspects. Candidates with experience in sensor and RFID related fields or other emerging technologies will be preferred.
Jacobs University Bremen is a private, research-oriented university that offers competitive education at the graduate and undergraduate level.
The School of Engineering and Science offers a research-oriented working environment with an informal and dynamic atmosphere and a high degree of interaction between students, faculty, and staff. Jacobs University offers competitive salaries based on qualifications and experience. An initial contract will be for 7 years.
Interested applicants should submit a cover-letter, curriculum vitae, list of publications, statements of research and teaching, and the names and addresses of at least three potential referees to facultyrecruit@jacobs-university.de. Please quote Faculty Search #2160-08-EE in all correspondance.
Closing date: 1 February 2008
For more information, see http://www.jacobs-university.de/about/jobs/13785/.
The School of Engineering and Science at Jacobs University Bremen invites applications for a
Future Technology Group @ORNL
Posting date: 12/10/2007
Description
We are currently hiring for several positions in the Future Technologies Group at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL FT). I have attached a brief description of each open position below, but we are interested in strong candidates in all areas. Please pass this notice along to anyone that you think would be a strong candidate that might be interested in joining our team. The application deadline is Jan 14, 2007, but an early application is encouraged as the positions remain open only until filled. Successful candidates can begin work immediately (pending normal application procedures).
1. Parallel IO and storage. ORNL FT is seeking a staff, post-Doctoral, or advanced Masters-level researcher to study revolutionary techniques in parallel IO, including IO middleware, file system design and optimization, transparent access over long-distance fiber networks, next-generation storage protocols, as well as IO performance characterization, modeling and prediction. Accesses to some of the world's largest supercomputers will be made available to enable practical and impactful research. The ideal candidate would have expertise in two or more of the aforementioned areas; have a strong publication history; and, a proven record in developing system software.
2. Operating Systems for HPC. ORNL FT is seeking a post-Doctoral or advanced Masters-level researcher to study cutting-edge techniques in operating systems, such as virtualization, kernel design, and cache/memory management. Expertise is particularly sought after to perform OS research and development that leads to a scalable single system image and adaptive software for large-scale supercomputers. The ideal candidate would be an expert in operating systems, have some HPC experience, have a strong publication history, and a proven record in developing system software.
3. Performance prediction, analysis, and optimization. ORNL FT is seeking a staff, post-Doctoral or advanced Masters-level researcher to study revolutionary approaches to performance prediction, analysis, and optimization on some of the world's largest supercomputers. The ideal candidate would be an expert in performance prediction (analytical, simulation, benchmarking), analysis, and optimization of real-world HPC applications, have a strong publication history, and a proven record in developing software tools (e.g., interconnect simulators, scalable performance tools) that assist in these activities.
4. Heterogeneous architectures. ORNL FT is seeking a post-Doctoral or advanced Masters-level research to study innovative approaches to software systems for heterogeneous architectures, such as STI CELL, Graphical Processing Units, Clearspeed, FPGAs, and others. These software systems include OS level constructs for resource management and scheduling, and programming models that provide productivity and performance. The ideal candidate would have experience in using heterogeneous architectures, a strong publication history, and a proven record in developing system software.
5. Software developer. ORNL FT is seeking a Bachelors or Masters-level researcher to assist our team in the development of experimental software for high performance computing. The ideal candidate will have proven record with C or C++ on system software (e.g., Linux kernel, device drivers, runtime systems like IO or MPI), some experience with java, python, and system administration, demonstrated success working in a collaborative team environment, and occasionally contributed to publications.
6. Summer internships. FT has a number of open positions in various areas for internships during the summer of 2008. Candidates are expected to be pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a closely related discipline. A non-exclusive list of possible research areas for these internships is available at http://ft.ornl.gov/jobs.html.
You can also find more information about our group at
http://ft.ornl.gov
http://ft.ornl.gov/jobs.html
To apply, please send a short statement of your career objectives and an HTML or PDF resume to Vetter at computer.org. Please use 'ORNL FT job application' in the subject line, and be sure to identify the job that interests you. The resume should contain work experience, a list of publications, links to two relevant papers, and contact information for two references who can comment on your skills and research potential, one of whom should be your research advisor.
Questions about these positions can be directed to vetter at computer.org.
Amazon.com
Posting date: 11/26/2007
Description
The Ordering Experience Platform team has several positions available for creative and independent engineers with a passion for web services to define and build Amazon's order taking systems. We are already the world's largest e-commerce site; now we need both junior and senior developers to help us lead the way as an e-commerce platform.
The next generation of e-commerce sites will be built on our technology, and we need sharp people to build the features and systems that will power that growth. As a member of Ordering Experience Platform, you will pioneer new architectural and design choices, invent new features, develop distributed services, and build a massively scalable, rock-solid platform solution using object-oriented C/C++ & Java on various UNIX-flavored platforms. We are a fast-paced environment, utilizing agile methodology and design patterns. We encourage innovation and expect developers to take a high level of ownership throughout the software life cycle.
If you are a strong developer with experience in or strong interest in high-volume websites, distributed systems and databases, performance/scalability or network programming, we'd like to talk to you.
Qualifications
- BS, MS, or PhD in computer science or equivalent
- Several years experience developing software
- A talent for design and algorithms
- Experience with C/C++/Java, Linux/Unix
- Excellent communications skills
Interested students contact Karsten Schwan with your resume.
Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Engineering, Faculty Position
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at Virginia Commonwealth University s School of Engineering seeks to fill several tenured/tenure-track faculty positions an all areas of Electrical and Computer Engineering. An earned PhD in Electrical and/or Computer Engineering, or a closely related field, is required. Rank and salary are commensurate with the individual s record. The successful candidates are expected to establish highly regarded research programs, teach classes at the graduate and/or undergraduate levels, and perform appropriate professional service.
The Electrical and Computer Engineering Program currently has 11 full time faculty members with an annual research expenditure of over $2 million.
Candidates should send a resume and names of three references to: Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 843072, 601 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23284-3072.
Virginia Commonwealth University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, and persons with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
Digital Authentication Technologies, Software Engineer
Posting date: 10/29/07
Digital Authentication Technologies, Inc. ("DAT") is a small, rapidly growing company that has developed a cutting-edge authentication system that uses a hardware solution to avoid the frailties of algorithmic authentication. The DAT solution employs both a hardware and software system to perform authentication. The hardware system captures RF signals that the software utilizes to determine authentication. The DAT system encompasses numerous communication mediums (wireless and wired) transmitting over various protocols (TCP/IP, Serially ...). DAT is a growing start-up company that is breaking new grounds in security and authentication product development. Previous customers included multiple divisions within the U.S. Department of Defense and Homeland Security for the protection of wireless networks and critical infrastructure. The customer base is expanding to the commercial sector including banking, finance, healthcare and other risk-averse industries.
Job Title: Software Engineer
Location: Boca Raton, Florida
Education: BS/ BTech/MSc or equivalent
Job Description:
Contribute to the overall development of company products
Work with developers in Boca Raton
Participate in design and code reviews with peers
Review documentation written by the technical documentation group
Fix issues that may arise in production environments
Computing background
Desired Profile:
Programming experience in C/C++
Experience in design and development of applications, J2EE and experience with Tomcat, Weblogic and Webshere application servers.
Experience in Software life-cycle development.
Experience in UML and Rational Rose and Object-Oriented methodologies.
Automated testing frameworks
Understanding of Windows Operating System and Linux a plus
Fluent in written and spoken English.
Understanding of TCP/IP and Sockets programming
OR
Object-oriented Java programming experience
Experience in design and development of applications, J2EE and experience with Tomcat, Weblogic and Webshere application servers.
Experience in Software life-cycle development.
Experience in UML and Rational Rose and Object-Oriented methodologies.
Automated testing frameworks
Understanding of Windows Operating System and Linux a plus
Understanding of TCP/IP and Sockets programming
Fluent in written and spoken English.
To learn more about DAT please visit our Website: www.dathq.com
To apply for positions, please send your resumes to ppatsis@dathq.com
Digital Authentication Technologies, Inc.
1900 Glades Road Suite 441
Boca Raton, FL 33431
Phone 561-459-0757
Fax 561-892-2466
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PostDoc Fellowship
Posting date: 9/24/07
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is currently accepting applications for its prestigious Lawrence Fellowship. For information and submission information see http://fellowship.llnl.gov . Applications must be completed no later than November 2, 2007.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Battelle
Posting date: 9/18/07
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-Battelle is expanding research capabilities in Cyber Security, emphasizing adaptive systems, advanced detection, situational awareness, cyber analytics, forensics and predictive capabilities. We are particularly interested in finding a visionary senior scientist interested in taking a leadership role in one or more of these areas. We also have openings for new PhDs, postdocs, and a limited number of sabbatical opportunities in Cyber Security.
We have posted details about the open position postings in the careers section our website at http://cybersecurity.pnl.gov/. Please contact PNNL's Recruiter Kristi Ross at (kristi.ross at pnl.gov).
Post-doc Position, ORNL
Posting date: 7/15/07
The following opportunity is available at Oak Ridge National Lab. Interested candidates should contact Kalyan Perumalla at perumallaks at ornl dot gov.
http://www.postdocjobs.com/jobs/jobdetail.php?jobid=4001534
Power Management Research, Intel
Posting date: 7/15/07
The following opportunities are available in the area of power management. Interested candidates should contact schwan@cc, sudha@ece, or leehs@ece.
Job Description
The Energy Efficient System lab is working on cutting edge research in improving the power efficiency of Intel platforms from Server to Ultra mobile devices. The position requires a self-driven individual who will be developing embedded firmware on the server and ultra mobile platform working to define and develop the next generation of power management technologies. Expect to have frequent interaction with internal and external developers and architects.
Qualifications
You must possess a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 1-3 years of applicable industry experience.
Additional qualifications include
· Strong knowledge of computer architecture and system engineering
· Solid knowledge of programming and operating systems
· Solid understanding of ACPI and knowledge of CPU and platform power management.
· Understanding of embedded microprocessors and real time operating systems.
· Should be able to work closely with the hardware team to debug issues as well as work in an interdisciplinary environment.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Ability to deal with some ambiguity in defining activities and direction
Job Description
The Energy Efficient System lab is working on cutting edge research in improving the power efficiency of Intel platforms from Server to Ultra mobile devices. The position requires a self-driven individual who will be conducting research in platform power management.
Qualifications
You must possess a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 1-2 years of applicable industry experience.
Additional qualifications include
· Strong research track record with demonstrated ability to conduct systems and architecture research
· Solid understanding and knowledge of CPU and platform power management.
· Understanding of operating systems, ACPI and system manageability infrastructure.
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Ability to deal with some ambiguity in defining activities and direction
Sandia National Labs, Post-doc Position
Posting date: 3/07/07
Sandia's supercomputing research and development program has a number of opportunities for outstanding postdoctoral research appointees. For more information see this flyer.
