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  • [Photo] Corky Harris • December 21, 2010

    BACKGROUND

    SRA conducts, coordinates, and analyzes clinical and experimental studies to inform health research. This practice area addresses preventative, diagnostic, and therapeutic issues in a public health context, including research in cancer, asthma, allergies, diabetes, infectious diseases, genomics, nutrition, reproductive health, and environmental health.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    SRA's Global Health Sector is an international health services organization working across government and commercial markets, composed of three Strategic Business Units. These units provide professional services in a variety of areas, including drug development/clinical research (CRO); domestic public health services: laboratory sciences, epidemiology, health communications, disease surveillance, peer review, and information technology.

    We are currently recruiting a Information Retrieval Programmer, who will work with a small team of subject matter experts and software developers to respond to request and develop reporting information. Interaction with team members is critical for project coordination. This Information Retrieval Programmer will work closely with both scientists and informatics staff to perform information retrieval tasks and reporting.

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Ideally the Informational Retrieval Programmer candidate will have a strong understanding of information retrieval, data management knowledge, scripting languages and text processing
    • Experience with object-oriented software for Unix, Linux and MSWindows 9x/NT/2000 operating system environments is highly desirable.
    • Ideally, the candidate will also have experience with NIH grants administration process.
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills are required for working in this multidisciplinary environment
    • Degree: Bachelors
    • Skills: Works independently developing practical text mining solutions to important problems
    • One to two years of relevant professional experience. This requirement can be waived if the candidate is highly recommended by an academic advisor.
    • Expertise with SQL Server, Oracle or mySQL including experience with free text queries
    • Proficiency in software development in multiple high-level languages such as Java, C++, Perl, and Python
    • Understands lexical representation of text
    • Exposed to text-mining or natural language processing libraries

    PREFERENCES

    • Master's degree in computer science (or biomedical informatics) with mathematics coursework that includes at least integral calculus, probability and statistics, and linear algebra
    • Desired graduate coursework in mathematics that includes at least integral calculus, probability and statistics, and linear algebra

    TERMS

    FTE

    LOCALE

    Rockville, MD

    COMPENSATION

    TBD

    HOW TO APPLY

    You MUST go to http://www.sra.com/careers/search.php and enter 32064BR in the Requisition Number box. Also email Corky_Harris[at]sra.com

    DEADLINE

    ASAP

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