Job description

The Role

You’ll be a key driver for the development of our discovery service and be working alongside a small multi-disciplinary team including service design, backend and frontend developers and our QA team. The discovery service will eventually include 100+ million full-text articles that need to be indexed automatically to enable the end users an outstanding user experience for accessing research literature, including intelligent searches, advanced browsing through subject categories and get highly relevant recommendations on what to read and whom to collaborate with, based on their search and navigation behaviour on the platform.

To deliver excellent solutions, you should be able to think out of the box and pro-actively elaborate new creative solutions to the challenges researchers and students are facing. It is also important that you stay up-to-date with latest trends and technologies in related areas, like NLP, AI, Machine Learning and Big Data as well as within the research and publishing domain.

You Are

Passionate about working with big data and making sense out of it for the end users by applying artificial intelligence and machine learning tools and techniques.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Excellent programming skills to ensure elegant solutions with high performance, with proficiency in Clojure.

Ability to work with handling large volumes of data, including parsing, ingestion and indexing

Fluent in English

Desired Extras

University degree, for example in Computer Science

Experience with ElasticSearch, Apache Spark, and growing data-mining and search algorithms on large-scale datasets