Research Area Manager in Natural Language Processing

As manager of a research area, the candidate will define research
directions in the field and drive a team of experienced
researchers. The candidate will contribute to XRCE excellence as a
leading research organisation at Xerox and will work in close
collaboration with the other areas of XRCE as well as the other Xerox
research centres at the USA and in India; Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), Xerox Research Center Webster , NY (XRCW) and in
Bangalore, India (XRCI).

Roles and responsibilities include:

    * Definition and leadership of the research agenda for the area
      which projects a 3-5 year vision of scientific directions,
      identifies the major scientific challenges to be addressed and
      describes the associated approaches, value of the research
      results targeted and the relevance to the business.

    * Managing a team of researchers (includes day to day guidance and
      support, definition and assessment of yearly objectives, regular
      reviews with the team and with management, etc)

    * Representative of the research area in customer and senior
      management visits and scientific communities including academic,
      industrial, EU, etc

    * Be an interface with Business Groups, understanding the
      challenges in terms of research, and defining projects to
      address those challenges

    * Lead the team for the definition and execution of projects to be
      delivered to European Union and/or French research/industry
      ministry

    * Empower and mentor project leaders and researchers

As Area Manager you will report to the lab manager and be a member of
the centre leadership team.

Directions for research agenda (to be discussed with the candidate):

Building upon the team expertise and leading edge unique technologies,
the challenges to address consist of strengthening our NLP
capabilities with extensions in two scientific directions:

    * Knowledge representation and inference, to generate new critical
      information enabling actions

    * Hybrid methods mixing symbolic and statistical approaches

Required Experience and /qualifications:

    * Ph.D. in a relevant field, or equivalent

    * At least 10 years of experience in research, with strong
      connections in the research community and with industry

    * Strong skills and experience in project management, involving
      multidisciplinary teams

    * Significant experience in managing people

    * Proven capability in communicating with senior management

    * Team player

    * Fully fluent in English, another language is a plus

Starting date November 2011 

Duration Permanent position


Application instructions

To submit an application, please send your CV and cover letter to both
xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com and michel.gastaldo@xrce.xerox.com.