Our team is looking for a Natural Language Processing Engineer:

SESAMm was founded in 2014 and is one of the most dynamic FinTech
startups in France and Luxembourg. SESAMm develops and commercializes
stock market forecasting tools based on social media and other textual
data sources. These products are used by banks and hedge funds. The
company provides financial trading indicators which have been created
using Big Data methods and allowing new approaches for trading
strategies. We develop many new products based on our clients' needs.

Our team is young, highly motivated and has several fields of expertise,
from computer science to stock market finance. We are all data geeks and
computer science enthusiasts!

SESAMm aims at becoming the international leader of Big Data
technologies for stock market professionals.

Job Goal: development of new text-analysis and sentiment analysis
methods to create financial trading indicators based on information from
social media.

Major Duties:
- Participate in existing and future research projects: analyze existing
  methods, develop original solutions and evaluate them, present results
- Identify relevant sources of information and extract data
- Filter and prepare data
- Develop NLP algorithms and computational sentiment analysis models
- Write analysis reports

Education Requirements 
- Engineering or university master: Computer Science, Natural Language
  Processing or similar.

Work Experience and Skills Requirements
- Work Experience: 0-1 year in NLP or computer science.
- Knowledge in NLP, Machine Learning would be a plus
- Demonstrate ability to create lexical semantic resources for NLP-based
  applications.
- Languages: native / near native English
- Programming Skills : Java and scripting languages

The applicant should be able to work in a team and show high
motivation. This job requires autonomy and curiosity toward a changing
environment. The NLP Engineer will contribute to the company's most
important technical decisions; thereby this job will be a high-level
entrepreneurial experience.

Working Conditions
- Percent Time: 100%
- Location: Metz (France)
- Duration: 6 months (CDD), starting in April 2016. A permanent contract
  can be proposed at the end of this period.


Join SESAMm, an innovative and ambitious FinTech startup with high
potential.
More information: www.sesamm.com
Please send your application to contact@sesamm.com
Application: resume, interview