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Description:

The Academic data science and engineering team has an immediate opening for a Research SDE 3 focused on data engineering.

This project will focus on helping the team build a very large, strongly connected graph of Academic data (papers/publications, authors, affiliations, journals, conferences, topics, etc.) for use in multiple production applications. We’re looking for someone who has a strong background in data mining, information retrieval, document understanding and NLP and is passionate about working on hard problems with some of the best talent in the world.

Responsibilities

· Quickly ramping up and understanding the scope and challenges of building a large connected graph responsible for powering production applications

· Design, implement and integrate proof of concepts for manipulating data in large connected graph

· Fast prototyping of different ideas for manipulating data to generate high quality results

· Working closely with data scientists to gather and iterate on feedback and requirements

· Building and maintaining data pipelines which process petabytes of data on a daily basis



Requirements

· Solid understanding of CS fundamentals and mastering of statistical concepts

· Good understanding of database fundamentals and concepts

· Programming experience with C++/Java/C#

· Enjoy working with large-scale data and possess a mixture of software engineer and data scientist mindset

· Excellent communication skills and desire to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary environment

· Ability to work independently and ramp-up to new areas quickly



Nice-to-haves

· Experience with Microsoft COSMOS platform and Scope scripting language a HUGE plus

· Experience with SQL and/or any Big Data platform

· Experience with information retrieval, document understanding and NLP