Semantic Intelligence Engineer

Company: Benefitfocus
Location: Charleston, SC
Web: www.Benefitfocus.com

Job Description:
Benefitfocus is the leader in software and services for the healthcare benefits market by providing employers, insurance carriers and consumers a single Web-based platform for shopping, enrolling, managing and exchanging benefit information. Since its founding in 2000, Benefitfocus has been a growing company solidly positioned in the 2 trillion dollar healthcare industry.

About this Opportunity: Benefitfocus is rapidly evolving from the direct access data services to a more semantically rich health data space environment. Our users will see new compelling experiences that allow them to find answers rather than links and actually complete their tasks without leaving our Platform.

Building these system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, data analysis, multi-Petabyte storage systems, high-performance, high availability computing, and efficient graph traversal algorithms. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team! The candidate must be able to contribute to the overall architecture of our product and take individual ownership of large components of the system. The candidate is expected to hit the ground running, be able to communicate clearly with partners and peers, and be self-directing in a very dynamic environment.

Assignment Description: As a Semantic Intelligence Engineer this position will focus on writing software for aggregating health benefits data from distributed sources via raw, linked data or other techniques; managing one or more stores of aggregated RDF data for distributed indexing, analysis, and visualization; and creating frameworks that will operate over massive distributed RDF stores. You will apply algorithms and modeling tools to a variety of data assets, and develop critical solutions for multiple areas of business. You will work with a dynamic and passionate team of experienced scientists and other professionals.

Experience and Skills:

Responsibilities include:

• Analyze, evaluate, and create programs and web services in Java and related language(s) to support distributed, cluster-based indexing and replication of data included or referenced in a network of Resource Description Framework (RDF) databases
• Provide programming support to enable and enhance automated and semi-automated searching, processing, and reasoning using the indexed data and metadata
• Creation of a large scale Ontology
• Keep up to date on new and emerging technological tools, standards, and methods in order to take advantage of them where feasible
• Develop customized software solutions with a special emphasis on human computer interface, knowledge management, semantic search, and dissemination techniques that maximize efficiency and minimize cost
• Develop or customize indexing and metadata schemas, ontology, and workflow procedures
• Prepare technical specifications, progress reports, and white papers describing goals, methodology, and accomplishments to share with other development teams, project managers, technical advisory board members, and NIH staff members

• M.S. in computer science or other relevant discipline, and minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, B.S. with 5 years experience
• Strong Java programming skills and experience developing data-driven Java web applications and web service
• Experience building applications that function in a cross-platform, multi-browser and multi-client environment
• Experience with development tools such as JIRA, Subversion, Ant, and Eclipse
• Deep experience with Semantic Frameworks including direct experience with the following: SPARL, SWRL, Jena, Pellet, Protégé, Top Braid and/or creation of algorithms related to these tools and frameworks

• PhD in Computer Science with direct emphasis on semantic and natural language systems and Entity Extraction Algorithms
• Apache Hadoop or other similar systems (Cassandra, Big Data®) using the Map Reduce processes
• RDF stores for large-scale databases