Jobs

The mission of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research is to create competitive advantage and industry leadership for the firm by applying advanced technology and thinking to important practice problems. Its people are curious, eager to learn, passionate to contribute their ideas, accepting of criticism and suggestions, and willing to constructively confront difficult problems and situations in order to provide dramatic innovation.

We have several positions available for Project Connection Machine, an R&D effort to apply techniques of AI and Knowledge Management to locate experts and expertise within a global, 120,000-employee company.

People-centric Knowledge Management - Researcher and Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement knowledge workflow and incentive scheme for expertise locator application.
• Assist in the development of user modeling algorithms and similarity metrics for application area.
• Interview pilot users and analyze and document the knowledge acquisition, utilization, maintenance and feedback workflows in selected application domain as needed.
• Analyze the impact of user characteristics and various incentive schemes on these workflows.
• Analyze vocabulary and support development of knowledge representation method in application domain.

• Ph.D. / MS in CS or similar with strong background in people-centric knowledge management, social networks and usability studies.
• Hands-on experience with web application development in a J2EE environment required.
• Experience in knowledge representation (ontologies, semantic nets, domain modeling etc.), personalization, and data mining in industrial environments as well as Lotus Notes development experience highly desired.
• Previous experience in a professional services organization beneficial.

To apply for any of these positions please email a cover letter and resume to the recruiter handling this search for the Center at PwC_CAR@Yahoo.com.