Job Opening: Open Positions for Research Assistants in Music Information Retrieval

Open Positions for Research Assistants in Music Information Retrieval

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The Music Technology Group of the Pompeu Fabra University
(http://mtg.upf.edu) is seeking full-time senior engineers, developers
and system integrators. The proposed posts are part of a number of new
European and industrial projects in collaboration with world-leading
companies and institutions. We target the development of both
theoretically and practically robust solutions to further extend and
leverage our existing technologies and on-going research efforts in
the domain of music information processing, management and retrieval.

Candidates are expected to have experience in Software development in
a subset of the following: music and audio processing, machine
learning, multimedia information retrieval or databases. The positions
are:

. GUI / SW Developer and Integrator
. Multimedia signal processing software developer
. DB Designer and System Developer
. Content-based Multimedia retrieval systems developer
. Information retrieval systems developer

The working language in our Lab is English. If you are interested in
this position, please contact Salvador Gurrera (sgurrera (at)
iua.upf.edu) or check http://www.iua.upf.edu/mtg/pages/join.

The Music Technology Group, MTG, of the Pompeu Fabra University of
Barcelona, specializes in audio processing technologies and their
music and multimedia applications. In recent years a big effort has
been devoted to MIR research; efforts that range from basic research
(e.g. EMCAP http://emcap.iua.upf.es/) to applied research (e.g. SALERO
http//www.salero.eu).

===== GUI / SW Developer and Integrator
You will help a team of researchers by developing and implementing
functional music information retrieval prototypes. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible applications
based on an existing infrastructure for music search and management of
music assets.
2. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo
applications.
- Profile:
1. Excellent C++ programmer skills with interest in developing
music management software and with experience in object-oriented design.
2. GUI development experience.
3. Design specifications, test, debug and document the software
design and the system itself.

===== Multimedia signal processing software developer
You will help a team of researchers by designing, developing,
implementing and assessing fully functional music and audio content
description algorithms. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible demo system to
provide the infrastructure for music processing.
2. Extend and optimize an existing toolbox for content-based music
analysis by implementing existing approaches and developing new
algorithms.
3. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo system
itself.
- Profile:
1. Excellent C++ programmer skills with interest in developing
music software, with experience in object-oriented design and
Unix/Linux scripting languages (Perl and Python).
2. Familiarity with speech recognition, music/audio signal
processing theories or pattern matching techniques.
3. Experience with algorithm implementation (coding) of multimedia
(music) analysis.

===== DB Designer and System Developer
You will help a team of researchers by architecting, designing,
developing and testing functional music and audio content retrieval
systems. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and develop backends that sustain significant load and
should be highly scalable.
2. Test and document the software design and the systems.
- Profile:
1. +3 years of experience in designing and developing web applications.
2. Unix (Linux) experience
3. SQL, MySQL experience (Oracle and Postgres is a plus)
4. Shell scripting, Python, PHP, Perl experience
5. Familiarity with distributed systems, machine learning,
information retrieval and/or experience with large data (over
100Gigabyte of data) is a plus.

===== Information retrieval systems developer
You will help a team of researchers by developing and implementing a
functional music information retrieval demo software system. Proposed
tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible system to
provide the infrastructure for music search engines.
2. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo system
itself.
- Profile:
1. Experience in developing information retrieval systems.
2. Familiarity with some of the following: Text Representation and
Indexing, XML and Metadata, Performance, Compression, Scalability,
Architectures, Mobile Applications; Web IR, Intranet/Enterprise
Search, Citation and Link Analysis; Digital Libraries; Distributed IR;
Collaborative filtering; Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR;
Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics

===== Content-based Multimedia retrieval systems developer
You will help a team of researchers by developing and implementing a
functional music information retrieval demo software system. Proposed
tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible system to
provide the infrastructure for music search engines.
2. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo system
itself.
- Profile:
1. Experience in developing content-based multimedia retrieval systems
2. Familiarity with some of the following: Multimedia indexing and
retrieval (image, audio, video, text); Matching and similarity search
in multimedia databases
High-Dimensional Indexing; Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing;
Machine learning; Representation models; Meta-data compression and
transformation; Handling of very large scale multimedia database

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For more information please contact:
Salvador Gurrera (sgurrera@iua.upf.edu)
Music Technology Group - Pompeu Fabra University
Ocata 1, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
http://mtg.upf.edu
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