Jobs

Natural Language Processing Engineer

Reference: LD_CL_BB_201001
Department: Linguistic Resources
Location: PARIS La Défense, FRANCE

Job Description, duties and responsibilities:

SYSTRAN is seeking to hire a highly-qualified computational linguist to join an international team working to develop MT resources. This person must have strong knowledge and skills in corpus-based NLP methods and corpus development and maintenance, and must also have deep interest in extending and enhancing the capabilities of machine translation.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Extraction of mono- and bilingual corpora from the Web, and development of tools for their exploitation
• Training of statistical translation models and models to improve text analysis
• Dictionary database management and maintenance
• Implementation of linguistic procedures according to specifications

Skills:

The ideal candidate must also meet the following requirements:

• Strong skills in statistical NLP and corpus-based computational linguistics (machine translation, syntactic analysis, word sense disambiguation)
• Thorough knowledge of mySQL (development and administration)
• Significant programming experience in C, Perl, XML and Linux tools
• Fluency in English and French; native competence in other language is a strong plus
• Strong communication skills and able to work as part of a team

Education and Experience:

• Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Sciences (Masters or PhD), and 2+ years experience in an industrial or academic NLP environment

English Computational Linguist

Reference: LD_CLEN_BB_200812
Department: Linguistic Resources
Location: PARIS La Défense, FRANCE

Job Description, duties and responsibilities:

We are currently looking for a highly qualified computational linguist with native competence in English to join an international team for the development of MT corpus and dictionary resources. Primary responsibilities are:

• Corpus-based dictionary development for our European language pairs involving English
• Linguistic support, training and application of statistical models for client projects
• Improvement of English analysis and automatic dictionary coding resources
• Integration and testing of linguistic resources

Skills:

The ideal candidate must have strong interest in developing and enhancing the capabilities of machine translation and meet the following requirements:

• Native competence of English and French
• Experience in developing and applying statistical and corpus-based methods to NLP applications
• Thorough knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods in general
• Strong skills in English and French morphology and syntax
• Good working knowledge of Perl and other scripting languages
• Fluency in other European languages is a plus
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Education and Experience:

• Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Informatics, Linguistics or Translation Studies (Masters or PhD), and 2+ years experience in an industrial or academic NLP environment

Dutch Computational Linguist

Reference: LD_CLNL_BB_200809
Department: Linguistic Resources
Location: PARIS La Défense, FRANCE

Job Description, duties and responsibilities:

We are currently looking for a highly qualified Dutch computational linguist to join an international team for the development of MT corpus and dictionary resources. Primary responsibilities are:

• Corpus-based dictionary development for Dutch language pairs
• Linguistic support, training and application of statistical models for client projects
• Improvement of Dutch analysis and automatic dictionary coding resources
• Integration and testing of linguistic resources

Skills:

The ideal candidate must have strong interest in developing and enhancing the capabilities of machine translation and meet the following requirements:

• Native competence of Dutch and high fluency in English and French
• Profound knowledge of computational lexicography and NLP methods in general
• Experience in developing and applying statistical and corpus-based methods to NLP applications
• Strong skills in Dutch, English and French morphology and syntax
• Good working knowledge of Perl and scripting languages
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team

Education and Experience:

• Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics or Translation Studies (Masters or PhD), and 2+ years experience in an industrial or academic NLP environment

German Computational Linguist

Reference: DEVLING07_DE
Department: Linguistic Development
Location: Paris La Défense, France

Job description:

In this position, under the direction of the Lead Computational Linguist, you will be responsible for the linguistic code of the German components of our machine translation systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain German modules of existing language pairs (German<->English, German<->French).
• Contribute to the development of new language pairs involving German (German<->Spanish, German<->Italian, German<->Portuguese).
• Further develop and improve the German components.
• Interface with the Lexicography department and with SYSTRAN's software development team.

Skills:

• Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science (Masters, PhD).
• Computational linguistics syntax formalisms.
• Very good C/C++ and Perl programming skills.
• XML technologies.
• Native German speaker.

Experience:

• Previous experience in German computational linguistics projects.
• Experience in Machine Translation is a plus.

Other Requirements:

• Fluency in English, speaking and writing.

English Computational Linguist

Reference: DEVLING07_EN
Department: Linguistic Development
Location: Paris La Défense, France

Job description:

In this position, under the direction of the Lead Computational Linguist, you will be responsible for the linguistic code of the English components of our machine translation systems.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain English modules of existing language pairs.
• Contribute to the development of new language pairs involving English.
• Further develop and improve the German components.
• Interface with the Lexicography department and with SYSTRAN's software development team.

Skills:

• Advanced degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science (Masters, PhD).
• Computational linguistics syntax formalisms.
• Very good C/C++ and Perl programming skills.
• XML technologies.
• Native English speaker.

Experience:

• Previous experience in English computational linguistics projects.
• Experience in Machine Translation is a plus.

Other Requirements:

• Fluency in another European language.

Java Software Engineer

Reference: XL_LD_JSE_200510
Department: Product Development
Location: PARIS La Défense, FRANCE

Job description :

In this position, under the direction of project manager you will be responsible for writing server-side code for web-based applications. You will be responsible for developing Java code for client-server SYSTRAN's application. We are looking for well-rounded developers who know how to create robust high-volume production applications, and who can rapidly develop prototypes.

Skills :

• Good understanding of and practical experience with, Java web application development
• Strong Java programming skills and object oriented design experience
• Working knowledge of J2SE and J2EE libraries, design patterns, JSP and servlets
• Knowledge of session management, object relational mapping and multithreading
• Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community

Experience :

• Undergraduate or equivalent
• Strong Java programming skills and object oriented design experience
• Working knowledge of J2SE and J2EE libraries, design patterns, JSP and servlets
• Knowledge of session management, object relational mapping and multithreading
• Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community

Other Requirements :

• Fluency in English, speaking and writing

Software Engineer - Research Scientist

Reference: SD_RS_JS_200801
Department: Research and Development
Location: United States – San Diego, CA

Job Description, duties and responsibilities:

We are currently seeking experienced Software Engineers - Research Scientists to join our R&D team in San Diego to develop machine translation systems.

The ideal candidate must have a combination of research and implementation skills, including significant programming experience. Strong experience with machine translation, text classification, statistical techniques for NLP, information theory, or a related field is highly desirable.

Responsibilities include software development, experimentation, analysis of results, and building systems that combine linguistics and statistical language models for machine translation covering several languages.

Skills:

• Strong background in statistical modelling required.
• A combination of research and implementation skills.
• Significant programming experience in C++.
• An exceptional individual interested in transforming the capabilities of machine translation systems.
• Fluent in English and at least one additional language.
• Solid background in linguistics.
• Excellent academic background and demonstrated academic achievement.
• Superior oral and written communications skills.
• Evidence of mature, flexible, and innovative approaches in previous work experience.

Education and Experience:

• PhD in Computational Linguistics or relevant field.
• 3+ years work experience.