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The PwC Center for Advanced Research (CAR) seeks an outstanding research programmer with extensive experience in text mining, summarization and feature extraction for a groundbreaking R&D project. CAR is a technology research and development organization charged with creating competitive advantage for PricewaterhouseCoopers by applying advanced technology and thinking to important practice problems. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley in the San Jose office, CAR thrives in a unique, collaborative, high performance environment with researchers, scientists and subject matter experts from all over the globe. We recruit self-motivated people who have a passion for innovation and changing the established order.

The successful candidate will develop powerful, scalable, and easy to use tools to extract features, topics and summaries from text documents. The tools will be embedded in a predictive data analysis application to be used by PwC personnel. The creativity and innovation of the new team-member will be central to the creation of a successful data analysis and prediction product.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and manage text mining, text summarization and feature extraction tools
• Develop and deliver long-term vision and architecture for text mining, summarization and feature extraction technologies and standards for the project; coordinate developments with research management and stakeholders.
• Work with the team to elicit, define, and refine requirements
• Design, develop, and test scalable Java applications
• Attend and contribute to design review and code inspections
• Interact with end users to validate and evaluate software
• Review and contribute to system documentation

• M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, or related field with at least 3 years of hands-on professional software development experience.
• Experience with text and data mining, text summarization, information retrieval, feature extraction, data modeling tools and technologies.
• Experience with the development and documentation of real-world applications.
• Implementation experience in Java/J2EE, preferably on IBM WebSphere
• Willingness to follow group coding standards and design
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills

• Exposure to Social Network Analysis and Machine Learning techniques
• Experience with Computational Linguistics Technologies
• Experience with Adobe Flex
• Experience with Database Technologies (Oracle, Lotus Notes, Trillium, Informatica)
• Exposure to .NET technologies
• Exposure to Agile Software Development
• Ability to function independently and as part of a team under aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment, convey a strong professional image, exhibit interest and positive attitude toward all assigned work, and strive for continued improvement. The successful candidate will enjoy the risk and opportunity of advanced technology development.

Travel Requirements: 0-20%

The position is based in San Jose, CA.

_Contact_:
Carly.Collins@us.pwc.com

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