Open position: NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

The "Health On the Net (HON) Foundation" in Geneva is announcing an opened position in:

NLP, IR, AI, Web Development

Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Type: fulltime

HON is offering at wide range of services to citizens, medical professionals and health care providers. The HON web development team makes HON services available to millions of users in order to access health websites respecting a set of quality criteria: the HONcode. The team combines software development, system administration expertise in a cloud environment to run multilingual services available in 102 countries. We are looking for a web software developer with the extensive knowledge in Natural Language Processing to contribute to major development in a multidisciplinary team.

Key responsibilities:

• manage a large scale crawling robot and search engine dedicated to health sites
• NLP research and development, from research to production
• develop and implement collaborative platforms
• act as software support on various projects (CMS, log analysis etc.)

Essential qualifications:

• Master degree in computer science or related field with a background in NLP, with at least 2 years of experiences, or provable very strong programming achievement (any open source contribution is a plus).
• Problem solving skills and ability to think laterally;
• Look for opportunities to improve or optimize systems;
• Managing time and priorities in a rapidly changing, flexible environment;
• Participating in code reviews and support of peers in a collaborative agile environment (SCRUM, JIRA);
• Creating and maintaining user and developer documentation;
• Communicating, training, sharing knowledge and ideas as well as, issues and training/resource needs with others;
• Unit testing of code to deliver projects of robust quality; 
• Applied Agile methodology experience & continuous testing/integration;

Frontend development qualifications:

• programming language: Groovy/Grails.
• Ajax/jQuery/Javascript

Backend development qualifications:

• Java, Perl
• Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence
• Knowledge in Solr/Lucene;

You are responsible and organized; creative and proactive.

You are fluent in French with a very good knowledge of written and spoken English, German is a plus.

Please submit your CV, letter of motivation, and salary expectations toHON-Job@healthonnet.org