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The Department of Computer Science is looking for a research engineer to contribute to the Wallenberg's research arena for Media and Language. The employment is full-time with entry on May 1st or by agreement with a possible prohibition period.
Umeå University is one of Sweden’s largest institutions of higher education with over 34,000 students and 4,000 faculty and staff. We are characterised by world-leading research in several scientific fields and a multitude of educations ranked highly in international comparison. Umeå University is also the site of the pioneering discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9 genetic scissors – a revolution in genetic engineering that has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
At Umeå University, everything is nearby. Our cohesive campus environment makes it easy to meet, collaborate and exchange knowledge, which promotes a dynamic and open culture where we rejoice in each other's successes.
The Department of Computing Science is a dynamic institution with approximately 120 employees from more than 20 different countries. We provide education and research in a broad spectrum of the computer science field.
The purpose of the Wallenberg research arena for Media and Language (WARA Media and Language) is to build a world-class research community around Artificial Intelligence for Media and Language that cuts across scientific disciplines and industry segments. The main task of the advertised positions is to set up and maintain a distributed environment for collaborative projects in machine learning (ML). The work involves collecting and processing data, setting up and configuring development environments, and providing services for benchmarking, i.e., standardized performance measurement of new algorithms. To meet these needs, we are now looking for a research engineer. The employment is permanent and fulltime with a possible prohibition period.
The main responsibilities of the announced positions are to:
The project offers the opportunity to:
As a Research Engineer in WARA Media and Language (WARA M&L), your primary duties are to design, implement and host a Machine Learning platform for the research community within WARA M&L. The platform will be supported by the resources provided from WARA Common, a sister arena within WASP and HPC2N (high performance computing cluster). The work covers all aspects of the platform construction: Interviews with partners from academia and industry, elaboration of needs, design and implementation of the system, management of data sets, hosting and sharing of data, providing data annotation services, benchmarking machine learning challenges and user support.
The work also involves providing technical support for the annual GENEA challenge and Online VOT benchmark. Apart from benchmarking challenges, you will also be working on the annual WASP Summer school event, where you will be implementing and developing student projects on multimodal modelling of human communication.
You need:
We also require the following soft skills:
Experience in/of any of the following is considered a merit:
A complete application must contain:
The application must be submitted via the Varbi e-recruitment system no later than 2022-04-24. Further information can be obtained from Johanna Björklund, 070 603 94 59, e-mail johanna.bjorklund@umu.se.
Type of employment | Permanent position |
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Contract type | Full time |
First day of employment | As soon as possible, by agreement |
Salary | Monthly pay |
Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 100 % |
City | Umeå |
County | Västerbottens län |
Country | Sweden |
Reference number | AN 2.2.1-486-23 |
Published | 14.Mar.2023 |
Last application date | 24.Apr.2023 11:59 PM CEST |