Senior Data Mining Engineer Job Listing at Nuance in Montreal, Masovian

• Design and implement solutions for the language modeling data needs
• Increase bandwidth of our RSS spider
• Improve and automate process for data cleaning
• Web scraping
• Data mining
• Propose and create robust new text processing tools to solve research problems

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• first working experience
• Experience with web spiders (especially Nutch) and scraping tools (e.g. Firebug).
• Understanding how servers and browsers communicate; internet protocols
• Excellent software development skills in Perl /or Python, as demonstrated by 2+ years experience using these languages in a commercial software development environment.
• Extensive experience working in Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience with distributed/parallel processing (e.g. Hadoop).
• Familiarity with text encoding (UTF8 etc).
• Excellent analytical and diagnostic skills, quick learning.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated attention to detail; able to plan the details of accomplishing a given task, and to anticipate and prepare for future needs.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work within a multi-cultural virtual team.
• Very good written and spoken English

Preferred

• Experience with version control tools (e.g. SVN, HG) and ticket systems (e.g. Fogbugz).
• Practical web design experience (Java, HTML5).
• PHP and SQL working knowledge is preferred.
• Experience in a speech-related field (ASR, NLU, LM, MT, Information Retrieval).
• Knowledge about ontologies is welcome.
• Any foreign language is a plus

We offer a competitive compensation package and a casual yet technically challenging work environment. Join our dynamic, entrepreneurial team and become part of our fast growing track of continuing success. Nuance is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Nuance's Mobility Division builds innovative, intelligent and intuitive touch and speech interfaces to simplify and enhance the way people interact with mobile devices, applications, and services. Nuance Mobile solutions make mobile devices and in-car systems easier to use, automate customer self-service, and optimize the access and discovery of even the most advanced mobile applications and content - regardless of technical know-how, location, environment, or physical and literacy capabilities.