The Role:

The R&D Knowledge Engineering group at Bloomberg is looking for an experienced C++ software engineer to join one of the company's fastest growing teams. We are responsible for understanding the content of millions of news stories each day, and using this knowledge to drive intelligent modeling of market activity, including the generation of multi-lingual content based on trends and user needs. Ideal candidates have exceptional core software engineering skills, experience with Natural Language Processing, and a familiarity with Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling techniques. A desire to learn, and a strong motivation to succeed are an integral part of our team, and we expect everyone to be a force for shaping the long term direction of our products.

The team is primarily engineering-focused, but participates actively in research collaborations with world-class institutions, attends and presents at conferences, publishes papers, and releases open-source software to push forward the state-of-the-art. We believe in each engineer owning the full product life-cycle, from research to implementation and maintenance.

Current projects include:

Machine Translation;

Syntactic Parsing, NER, WSD, Morphological Analyzers;
Open Information Extraction;
Natural Language Generation;
Knowledge Graph/Ontology Population;
Low-latency NLP;
Table Extraction/Detection;

Qualifications:

• A minimum 3+ years of experience writing industry-level, robust C++ code, STL familiarity
• Experience with NLP, OIE, or MT
• A desire to help grow the group, share knowledge, and be an advocate for an ambitious, coherent product vision
• Probability and statistics background a strong plus

The Company:

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.