Research Assistant Position in DERI

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    Research Assistant Position in DERI
    Contract duration: 15 months, starting in March 2012
    Salary scale: 24,000-30,000 euros per year depending on expertise and skills
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    The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is among the largest research organizations working in Semantic Web technologies.
    DERI offers a stimulating, dynamic, multi-cultural research environment with excellent ties to research groups and Industry worldwide. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the transition of state-of-the-art research into industrial practice, in the specific context of the ongoing collaboration between DERI and Cisco.
    Given the high relevance of this position for a successful adoption of highly competitive research results into concrete industry products, the applicant will take the lead in the implementation and/or integration of client/server components, web services, semantic web applications and alike, as a proof of concept for enterprise data management.
    This development activity may partially include a general understanding of DERI's core research on advanced and efficient techniques for ontology mapping and alignment, query processing, data integration, semantic data mining, semantic annotation, social semantic web, text mining and natural language processing.


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    Essential Skills
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    - Strong background in C++ and Java programming
    - Familiarity with Unix/Linux systems


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    Bonus Skills
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    - Experience with Semantic Web technologies, esp. RDF/SPARQL
    - Familiarity with XML and SQL
    - Familiarity with XMPP protocol


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    The Candidates
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    - Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
    - Motivated and proactive, with a strong desire to learn and be flexible, taking initiative in all work assignments
    - Proven history of delivery in a Software Development environment
    - Product Feature Requirements analysis and solution definition.
    - Lead in solution architecture development and prototyping
    - Documentation including writing Functional Specifications, Detailed Design documents, Test Specifications and Unit Test documents.
    - Unit test, diagnostics development, bug-fix and problem resolution reporting and documentation.
    - Leading interactions with peer R&D teams and technical primes across industry partners
    - Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
    - Creative Thinking


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    Application procedure
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    Informal enquiries about these positions may be made to:


    alessandra.mileo@deri.org


    When applying, please use the same email addresses and put "RA position - DERI" in the subject line of emails.
    Candidates are requested to submit a cover letter and CV (both in PDF format).


    Closing date for receipt of applications is Feb 5, 2012. We expect
    the successful candidates to start at the earliest possible date,
    ideally in March 2012.

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