Careers at Knexus
Working Environment
Knexus Research provides a supportive, flexible, and cutting-edge research and development (R&D) work environment for creative, technically-sophisticated and diligent individuals. Our members work on multiple projects involving Intelligent Systems research topics such as AI in games, machine learning for image understanding, and multi-agent architectures for question-answering systems.
We offer a competitive compensation package that includes retirement and health benefits and three weeks of paid leave.
Openings
Programmer/Computer Scientist (AI Applications and Evaluation)
Knexus Research Corporation, an intelligent systems research company is looking for a Programmer and Computer Scientist to develop software tools and applications for applied research in artificial intelligence (AI). The position will be located at our National Harbor offices in Maryland. We provide a flexible and casual environment for creative and motivated individuals who thrive on intellectually challenging research and development projects. We offer a competitive compensation package that includes health and retirement benefits.
The successful candidate will develop software for applied AI research and system evaluations. We are looking for exceptional candidates with a solid software development/programming experience in web-based and standalone systems with a background in AI topics such as system evaluation, machine learning, games, planning or natural language processing. The candidate must be comfortable working in a team; independently with minimal direction. S/he must have good written and oral communication skills.
This position will give you the opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research and support the development of new and exciting technologies. You will be a supporting member of a small team dedicated to a research topic, and part of a larger intellectual community through which you will be exposed to ongoing applications research.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Interact with supervisor and clients to understand research requirements
- Create, modify, integrate software for AI applications software and performance evaluation
- Create rich stand-alone and web user interfaces for prototype applications
- Support AI systems evaluation with test data preparation, applications configuration and deployment, evaluation runs, and performance data collection and analyses
- Contribute to technical publications and presentations
Required Experience
- Experience programming in a high-level language (e.g., Java, C, C++, Python)
- Experience with Enterprise Java development and deployment
- Web Services and Java Server Pages (JSP)
- Relational Databases such as MySQL
- Installing and configuring web servers (e.g., Tomcat)
- Packaging and deploying web applications
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and Javascript
- Experience developing desktop application user interfaces (e.g., Java Swing, docking frameworks)
- Experience with data preparation and simulation experiments
Bonus Experience
- Experience developing data annotation systems using Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Object persistence with Hibernate
- Experience developing games and simulations with AI technology
- Experience developing software prototypes for DoD research
- Experience using scientific and statistical packages (e.g. MATLAB, R, SAS)
Qualifications
Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field with 3-6 years of research support experience
Master’s in Computer Science or related field and 0-3 years of experience
Other
Work location: The candidate will work at our offices in National Harbor, MD.
Citizenship: This position requires U.S. citizenship.
Interview and selection: Applicant should be prepared to discuss their software experience and relevant projects. Candidate will be asked to participate in a software development test.
Application: Please send a resume and cover letter to programmerscientist@knexusresearch.com.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or Vietnam era, or other eligible veteran status, or any other protected factor.
Release Date: September 16, 2011