Brandwatch is one of the world’s leading social media monitoring applications. We help customers from all across the globe discover, understand and respond to comments made about them on the web in real time.
We have built a team of the brightest developers and built our own web crawler, text analysis engine and web-based user interface. Continuing our rapid expansion we are looking for an NLP developer to join our Analysis team. Working closely with the rest of the team and other software developers, you will play an active role throughout the whole development process.
Your duties will include:
1. Design and implement accurate and efficient software applications for sentiment analysis and topic extraction 2. Analyse clients’ requirements and provide innovative solutions to extract and organise information from textual data 3. Maintain and enhance the performance of our existing NLP systems
You should have:
1. PhD (or equivalent R&D experience) in Computational Linguistics or Natural Language Processing 2. Good understanding of statistical approaches and machine learning 3. Good Java programming skills 4. Familiarity with Linux 5. Excellent communication skills in English
The following would be advantageous:
1. Experience with processing Web-scale data sets 2. Knowledge of other languages
Salary between £30k and £40k depending on skills and experience.
Perks
* Private health insurance * Monthly and yearly bonuses * Work on small projects of your choice every other Friday * Great offices in central Brighton, with free drinks and snacks
Start date: ASAP.
Interested candidates should send their CV and a cover letter, including salary expectations, to xinglong at brandwatch.com
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES
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Xinglong Wang Brandwatch (UK) International House Queens Road Brighton BN1 3XE United Kingdom
www.brandwatch.com