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Ornarose Inc. wishes to contract with one or two Research Software Developers based in the Chicago (Illinois) or Northern New Jersey area. This is a medium-term project (3 to 4 month) with an SBIR-supported startup company. Developer(s) will be responsible for implementation and testing of algorithms for fitting and applying novel statistical models. Work also includes data set cleanup, experimentation, and measuring resource demands of algorithms.

Requirements:

Ideally, we seek one highly skilled developer to satisfy both the following sets of requirements, but we are open to contracting with two people:

• Position 1: B.S. or advanced degree in computer science, operations research, statistics, or related field. Strong understanding of numerical optimization techniques, with 2+ years software development experience in this area.
• Position 2: M.S. or advanced degree in statistics, or equivalent knowledge of the major principles and modeling techniques used by statisticians. 2+ years software development experience in statistics, machine learning, data mining, or related technology.

• 5+ years professional software development experience,
• Experience with designing and running large computational experiments, ideally in machine learning, statistics, or data mining, is highly desirable. Experience with text processing and/or combinatorial/mixed optimization is also of interest.
• Proficiency in C. C++ and Perl proficiency is desirable.
• Experience with Unix/Linux is desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and communicate effectively when working from home. Able to meet weekly with project manager in one of Northern New Jersey or Chicago, IL.

David D. Lewis, Ph.D.
CEO, Ornarose Inc.
job2003a@ornarose.com