The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international
context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language
Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill an
immediate vacancy for Technical Engineer/Scientist (Project Manager)
position, specialized in Speech and Multimodal technologies.

Technical Engineer / Scientist (Project Manager) in Speech and
Multimodal Technologies

Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the
Technical Engineer/Scientist include designing/specifying language
resources, setting up production frameworks and platforms, carrying
out quality control and assessment. He/she will be in charge of
renovating the current language resources production workflows. This
yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated
candidates wishing to participate actively to the Language Engineering
field. He/she will be in charge of conducting the activities related
to language resources and Natural Language Processing
technologies. The task will mostly consist in managing language
resources production projects and co-ordinating ELDA's participation
in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever required by the
development team.

Profile :

    PhD in computer science, speech, audiovisual/multimodal technologies

    Experience and/or good knowledge in speech data collection,
    expertise in phonetics, transcription tools

    Experience in speech recognition, synthesis, speaker ID and the
    well-used packages (e.g., HTK, Julius, ...) and the tools to
    produce, collect and assess quality of resources and datasets

    Experience and/or good knowledge of the Language Technology area

    Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects,
    collaborative projects within the European Commission or other
    international frameworks

    Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular
    the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team

    Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different tasks

    Good knowledge of Linux and open source software

    Proficiency in C++, PhP, Java, Django is a plus

    Proficiency in French and English

    Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country

Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The
position is based in Paris.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to :

Khalid Choukri

ELRA / ELDA

55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin

75013 Paris

FRANCE

Fax : 01 43 13 33 30

Mail : job@elda.org

ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of the
European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of
Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data
necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and
multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and
terminology. The role of this non-profit membership Association is to
promote the production of LRs, to collect and to validate them and,
foremost, make them available to users. The association also gathers
information on market needs and trends.

For further information about ELDA/ELRA, visit :

http://www.elda.org
http://www.elra.info