Language Processing Software Engineer

At ONMOBILE SA, an IT and Telecom VAS company, we hire at the earliest possible date an experienced natural language processing (NLP) software engineer for new research and development projects on automatic speech recognition, text processing, and multilingual question-answering systems.

We are looking for a software development engineer with NLP development or research background on either commercial or academic speech recognition systems. You will be familiar with and have practical experience in the following areas:

State-of-the-art NLP technologies (robust parsing, finite-state transducers FSTs, statistical language modelling etc.)

Semantic Web technologies like RDF, OWL, SPARQL

Ability to develop with Eclipse RCP

Strong programming skill with modern programming languages (C++, Java) and scripting languages

Expertise in speech recognition, acoustic modelling, and audio/video processing is a plus

You should have an engineer school or university degree in computer science or related disciplines. A PhD or an equivalent level of experience would be helpful.

An application-oriented perspective and a concern for customers with strong analytical and problem solving skills are required. You should be capable to work independently when needed.

Other skills: transparent behaviour, clarity of expression, ability to work in a multi-cultural team.

Languages: fluent in English, French

The position is based in Paris, France.

Contact by email to WenXuan TENG (

teng.wenxuan@onmobile.com)