WEB INTELLIGENCE AND VISUAL ANALYTICS

Researchers and Software Developers

Position Announcement ? Jan/Feb 2015

www.weblyzard.com/jobs

Participate in award-winning international researchprojects and become part of a dynamic and interdisciplinary team. Closelyworking together with other researchers with a passion for developing novelsolutions to challenging technical problems, you will collaboratively advancethe state of the art in one or more of the following disciplines: WebIntelligence, Information Visualization, Big Data, Semantic SearchTechnologies, Distributed Computing and Linked Data.

The Department of New Media Technology of MODULUniversity Vienna and the Research Institute for Computational Methods ofVienna University of Economics and Business offer R&D and PhD Candidatepositions, part- or full-time. Innovations from our research projects (www.weblyzard.com/research) enablenovel showcases such as the Media Watch on Climate Change (www.ecoresearch.net/climate) andthe semantic search of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (www.weblyzard.com/climate-resilience)

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS

o Strong Analytical Skills and Software DevelopmentExperience (preferably in Python, Java, or JavaScript)

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS, FOCUS AREA 1 :: Big Data andDistributed Architectures

o Information Retrieval and Semantic Search(Elasticsearch) o Relational Data Modeling and PostgreSQL Optimization oDeployment and Monitoring of Distributed Architectures (Docker, Nagios) o LinuxServer Administration, Network and Server Security (Ubuntu)

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS, FOCUS AREA 2 :: Metrics andVisual Analytics

o Dashboards for Information Exploration and WebIntelligence Applications o Dynamic Web Technologies (JavaScript, jQuery,  HTML5) o Information Visualization (D3.js,WebGL) o Decision Support and Communication Success Metrics

The positions remain open until filled. Salary levelsfollow the guidelines of the Austrian Science Fund (www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs).MU Vienna and VUEB are equal opportunity employers and encourage qualifiedwomen to apply. Please send your application including cover letter, curriculumvitae and academic transcript to maximilian.lang@modul.ac.at(in English or German; preferably as a single PDF file not exceeding 8 MB).

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Prof. DDr. Arno Scharl

MODUL University Vienna

Department of New Media Technology

Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria

(email) scharl@modul.ac.at

(web) www.modul.ac.at/nmt

(twitter) @weblyzard