Working Student Human Language Tech

Job description

Primary Job Responsibilities

eBay Human Language Technology group is a team of researchers and engineers focused on innovative applications of natural language processing technologies to the e-commerce domain. With hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers, and hundreds of millions of live listings at any point of time, the HLT group provides an amazing playground for researchers and practitioners to work with data and conduct experiments at massive scale.

As a student worker at the eBay office in Aachen, Germany, you will collaborate with a team of researchers and software engineers leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to solve the most complex problems in natural language processing and text mining. In cooperation with the Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group at the Computer Science department of the RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Dr. Hermann Ney), you'll conduct research to improve current models and contribute to prototyping of innovative solutions. You will write algorithms with the goal to enhance HLT components (such as machine translation), will train statistical models, and test both your own and existing models and algorithms in various experiments.

Job Requirements

eBay Human Language Technology group is a team of researchers and engineers focused on innovative applications of natural language processing technologies to the e-commerce domain. With hundreds of millions of buyers and sellers, and hundreds of millions of live listings at any point of time, the HLT group provides an amazing playground for researchers and practitioners to work with data and conduct experiments at massive scale.

To support our team in Aachen we are looking for a

Working Student (m/f) Human Language Technology

(10 hours per week)

Your responsibilities:

As a student worker at the eBay office in Aachen, Germany, you will collaborate with a team of researchers and software engineers leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to solve the most complex problems in natural language processing and text mining. In cooperation with the Human Language Technology and Pattern Recognition Group at the Computer Science department of the RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Dr. Hermann Ney), you'll conduct research to improve current models and contribute to prototyping of innovative solutions. You will extract and prepare training data, write algorithms with the goal to enhance HLT components (such as machine translation), will train statistical models, and test both your own and existing models and algorithms in various experiments.

Your requirements:

·  Pursuing a Master's degree in computer science or related fields with a preferred specialization in natural language processing or machine learning
·  Experience with designing and training machine learning models
·  Proven ability to work independently and make good decisions with minimal direction
·  Strong communication skills (fluent English, both verbal and written, knowledge of German)
·  Experience working with complex and large text and web data
·  Programming skills (C++/Java, perl/python, bash command-line tools)

What we offer?

·  A comfortable working environment in a small, well-equipped office in the center of Aachen
·  Dynamic team, passion for languages and technology, professionalism and a good sense of humor
·  An international and fast-paced working environment with flat hierarchies and lots of flexibility
·  An attractive remuneration

Interested?

We are looking forward to your online application including your CV, cover letter and earliest possible start date via www.ebaycareers.com. For initial questions please contact Nadja Houdek

Education

BSCS or BSEE or Other Related 4yr Technical Degree

Job Title

Apprentice 1

Removal Date

12-Dec-2017