Stanford University is looking for a hardcore Web Developer/hacker.
Our project:
Stanford University is building an Intellectual Property Clearinghouse. The goal of the project is to create publicly accessible database of all Intellectual Property documents and build a specialized semantic search engine on top of it.
- Project will help to improve US patent system and facilitate technology transfer
- The project will benefit individual inventors, high-tech and bio-tech companies involved in technology transfer, patent policy makers and legal professionals
- CS Professors Chris Manning and Hector Garcia-Molina are technical advisors
- We perform cutting-edge research in Machine Learning and NLP on our Intellectual Property Corpus
- This database of intellectual property documents has never been created before
- Cisco, Oracle, Intel, SAP, Genentech and other tech companies are funding the effort
Responsibilities:
- Architect, build and maintain rapidly evolving Web site
- Connect Web site to the back-end which supplies machine learning, natural language processing, search and data-mining functionality
- Help with the development of the machine learning, natural language processing, search and data-mining modules (mostly with the interfaces and data I/O).
Benefits:
- Challenging, fun and startup-like environment at Stanford University
- Exposure to the cutting edge Stanford Computer Science research
- Opportunity to learn data-mining, machine learning and NLP, if desired
- Opportunity to improve US Patent system and change the world
- There will be an opportunity for commercial spin-offs (startups)
- Industry competitive salary and full benefits (medical, dental, etc
)
Required Qualification:
- Hardcore individual
- Expert Python skills for web development, database access
- Expert knowledge of Python Web Development frameworks
- Expert Java skills for web development, database access
- Expert knowledge of Java Web Development frameworks (JSP, JSF, Shale, etc
)
- Expert HTML and CSS skills with cross-browser compatibility
- Expert Java programming skills, OOP, design patterns
- 7 8 years of development experience or equivalent skill level
Additional Qualifications:
- Good JavaScript skills with AJAX experience
- Knowledge of open-source Java technologies, especially from Apache
- Basic understanding of open source search and data-mining technologies (Lucene/Solr)
- MySQL administration
- Linux administration; bash scripting
Positions:
1. We will hire an exceptional developer immediately full-time.
2. We could offer an opportunity for 1.5 2 months contracting with possibility of full-time hire afterwards
3. We could offer 1.5 2 month contract if someone is looking for a short-term engagement only
Our technical environment:
- We develop in 3 languages: Python (front end), Java (back end), and JavaScript (AJAX on the browser)
- You get to decide on the best architecture/framework for the Python Web front-end
- We build a large and computationally intensive Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing back-end in Java.
- We build a large Search and Data-mining back-end in Java, mostly from open source components
- Linux 64-bit x86 servers
If you have any questions, please contact:
George Grigoryev
Information Retrieval + NLP Project Lead
Stanford Intellectual Property Clearinghouse
Stanford University
george.grigoryev AT stanford DOT edu
Further details at Open Source Experts Python
