Software/Research Engineer
Clearance Required: Active Top Secret with Polygraph
Location: Emerson (Laurel, MD)
Anticipated Start Date: Spring 2018
PCI is actively interviewing candidates for several upcoming positions on a new Delivery Order on our
Prime contract, supporting the Research Directorate of our IC customer.
This team is tasked to perform research, development, and operations support in areas of
Human Language Technology (HLT), natural language processing (NLP), computational linguistics,
computer vision (CV), and machine learning.
Scope/Description of Work:
This delivery order addresses the increasingly broad spectrum of integrated analytics for multimedia content exploitation encompassing image, video, audio, text, and cross-modal information correlation. This is a large delivery order that will staff up to forty-five (45) researchers and engineers in multiple areas.
Imagine a world where you can set up a video camera in a conference room and record everything that happens. From there, the video/audio file is analyzed to translate the language recorded into the language you speak, provide a transcript complete with specific entity identification (eg, person1, person2, etc.), scrape the text off the slide deck from the video and translate them too. After you’ve imagined that, come to PCI to develop that system.
Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) includes technologies to provide for a variety of language-based processing, including language identification and translation from audio, video, and text-based sources. In addition to word-for-word translations, also included is ‘concept’ translation which requires additional machine learning and statistical model building. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech also fall under the purview of NLP. Computer Vision (CV) seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do. This includes understanding digital video/images for scene reconstruction, event detection, object recognition, OCR, etc.
Specific Languages and Technologies:
· Java, C/C++, Python, Golang (Go), Kotlin, JavaScript, Scala, Ruby
· Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes,
· AngularJS, React, HTML5
· Cloud processing (Hadoop, Map/Reduce, Accumulo, Big Table
· Relational and/or non-relational database experience (eg, MySQL, Oracle, Accumulo, MongoDB, HDFS, etc.)
· Statistical Machine Learning, deep learning, neural networks (eg, TensorFlow, Caffe, etc.)
· Elasticsearch
· Speech recognition (eg, Pyspeech, Mozilla DeepSpeech, Kaldi, CMUSphinx)
· OpenCV, dlib, OCR
If you don’t have them all, this is the team to work on to learn them!