Senior Developer at Clark & Parsia LLC (Washington, DC 20001)

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Semantic technologies startup in downtown Washington, DC, seeks Senior Java Developer to join engineering team working on challenging problems in knowledge representation, AI, and related fields.

Qualified applicants will have

- BS in computer science or related field; MS or PhD, ideally;

- 5+ years of software development experience, including demonstrable Java expertise;

- very strong software development, engineering skills;

- background in logic, AI, KR, automated reasoning, automated planning, or related subfields, including machine learning, statistical inference; experience with Semantic Web standards, particularly OWL, ideal;

- good verbal & written communication skills;

- authorization to work full-time in the US, at our downtown DC office (telecommuting is a possibility but only in extraordinary circumstances).

A successful applicant must be comfortable with

- developing cutting-edge automated reasoning or automated planning systems; see Pellet (http://clarkparsia.com/pellet) or HotPlanner (http://clarkparsia.com/planner);

- reading CS and other literature and implementing algorithms to production-quality;

- working on bleeding-edge R&D projects -- i.e., think solving "DARPA Hard" problems;

- presenting complex ideas simply to colleagues & customers at conferences like SemTech, ISWC, DL Workshop, OWLED, etc.;

- familiar with open source development culture, methodologies, and process.

About Clark & Parsia

Clark & Parsia LLC is a bootstrap startup focusing on solving infrastructure-level problems in semantic web and related areas; we focus on automated reasoning, automated planning, information integration, and ontology-based information systems. We do advanced R&D in the semantic technologies area and, increasingly, are focused on commercializing our research into products.

We work in a relaxed, comfortable environment where good
communication, world-class coffee & espresso, great benefits, and competitive salaries rule the day.

Clark & Parsia LLC is an equal opportunity employer.

Interested? Email a CV and cover letter to inquiries@clarkparsia.com.