Research Engineer for development of language technology infrastructure with a focus on machine learning

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Språkbanken Text <https://spraakbanken.gu.se> is a division of the national Swedish e-research infrastructure Nationella språkbanken (National Language Bank of Sweden), as well as a research unit with several ongoing externally funded research projects. Ever since its establishment in the mid-1970s, the main activities of Språkbanken Text have been development of digital language resources and language technology (LT) tools for working with linguistically annotated text corpora, and building and maintaining an LT-based research infrastructure in support of research based on language data. At present approximately 25 people – researchers (including PhD candidates) and research engineers – are employed in Språkbanken Text.

Job assignments

The duties of the announced position consist in development of our LT infrastructure. In addition to development of our present (and future) research platforms – for example Korp <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/korp> – the duties will include development of analysis tools and machine learning models for high-quality LT-based processing of large volumes of text for deployment in research and education. Our R&D is conducted in a heterogeneous technical environment mainly comprising open source code and free software.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• Several years’ experience of working with modern machine learning methods (for instance deep-learning neural network architectures).
• A university degree (master, Swedish magister, or bachelor) in language technology, computer science, or equivalent.
• Native speaker of Swedish, Danish or Norwegian, or alternatively documented ability to understand written Swedish.

Additional qualifications sought:

• Practical experience of modifying, extending and maintaining existing software on Linux or Unix platforms will be considered a merit, in particular experience of development of large and complex systems under a long-term perspective.
• Practical experience of work on LT-based research infrastructures or/and R&D projects will be considered a merit, in particular experience of large-scale LT-based text processing.
• Practical experience of multiple programming paradigms will be considered a merit.
• Contributions to open-source software development will be considered a merit, in particular LT applications.

Employment

Type of employment: Permanent
Extent: 100 %
Location: The Department of Swedish, University of Gothenburg
First day of employment: 2021-11-01 or by agreement

An initial trial employment period is normally applied.

For further information regarding the position

For more information regarding the employment please contact Markus Forsberg (director of Språkbanken Text) or Lars Borin (director of Nationella språkbanken), through the email address <sb-forestandare@svenska.gu.se>.

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Closing date: 2021-10-18

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