Associate Pre-Sales Consultant job

SAS are seeking an Associate Pre-Sales Consultant (Graduate Training Program) for SAS Academy commencing July It is a great career opportunity for a recent bilingual Graduate with a degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or related field. 

They're looking for a person passionate about technology with a technical & analytical focus. So if you fancy a 6 month global training program in SAS HQ, North Carolina US starting mid-July & returning to Dublin in November as a permanent member of the Pre Sales team. Flights, accommodation, salary, bonus & benefits provided

Check out the link for more info and get in touch. They're interviewing now!! All candidates must be eligible to work in Ireland & not require sponsorship.  http://bit.ly/saspresales

Data Analyst/Taxonomist - Contract

Research and Markets is the World’s largest market research store with a selection of over 1,500,000 market research reports and business information products. Over 400 of the Fortune 500 buy their research from us!

We strive to offer our clients an exceptional user experience. As such, we are currently working on improving how we tag our products with a view to offering our clients additional functionality and to dramatically improve the overall user experience on our website.

In particular, we have been working on improving how our products are categorised by greatly extending our existing taxonomy and implementing rules to automatically categorise new and existing products.

We are looking for a smart and meticulous person to assist us with this project. As a data analyst/taxonomist you will help shape the Research and Markets product taxonomy. You will help build an intuitive and comprehensive navigation structure that optimises product discovery on our website. You will also be responsible for the creation of the rules that will tag products within this navigation structure.

This role is for an initial three month contract with the possibility of this being extended.

Responsibilities:

• Help to develop our product taxonomy to organize our extensive product selection for our customers globally.
• The creation and testing of rules for the automatic tagging of new products and the retagging of existing products within this taxonomy.

Requirements

• An understanding of catalog and classification systems
• The ability to gain insight in to a diverse range of complex topic areas so as to
• understand how to ideally organise products within each
• Detail­oriented, decisive and self­motivated
• A strong desire to improve customer experience
• A strong focus on project delivery

The role is based in Dublin 8. For more information on working with Research and Markets please visit our Careers page.

Applications should be made by email to hr@researchandmarkets.com including a cover letter, CV and salary expectations.

Temporary Position with Irish Times - Semantic Content Enrichment

The Irish Times have a temporary (8-12 weeks) role for an individual interested in the data mining/ semantic web / natural language processing/document classification space.

This will be part of a large project in which t the system that produces the newspaper and the system that produces the website will be replaced with an integrated CMS. They are also installing a Semantic Content Enrichment system called Temis into theeditorial workflow.  Temis will perform entity-extraction services over unstructured article data sets and suggest people, places, companies, organisations, stock-tickers and categories.

The role to train the Temis engine is in two parts:

1)     Load up as many dictionary terms we can find , particularly relating to Irish localisation

      e.g. Dail, Taoiseach

2)   The more involved task of training the engine to recognise Irish Times articles and

      categorise them as per an agreed Irish Times topic list e.g. Articles about the Central

      Mental Hospital in Dundurm should be categorised under Mental Health.


      Here are some links to the Content Enrichment’s website:

            http://www.temis.com/index.php?id=95&selt=1

            http://www.temis.com/index.php?id=235&selt=1

If you are interested email the project manager, Claire McMahon (claire.mcmahon@gmail.com)

Positions available - Dublin Institute of Technology

There are currently a number of vacancies with DIT which may be of interest to some:

http://www.candidatemanager.net/CM/micro/joblist.aspx?mid=YAZCXGT&sid=EVWEV&a=Bqp8Yhelzn4%3d

School of Computing Google Group - Job Opportunities

If you haven't already done so I'd encourage anyone looking for employment to join the School of Computing Google Group that Mark Deegan set up:

https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dit-soc-graduates

He regularly posts some great opportunities to this group.

GradPool.ie

This site might be of interest to those currently job seeking. A slightly different focus to other sites - focusing on graduate  level positions and internships

http://www.gradpool.ie/

Employer Presentation - Riverland Solutions

On Tuesday 25th October. David Dempsey, Managing Director of Riverland Solutions GmbH will host a presentation to FINAL YEAR/POSTGRADUATES in Computer Science courses. Basically those who will be looking for job opportunities in 2012. This is the ideal opportunity for students to hear how their careers can turn out and he will also talk about what kind of jobs are out there etc.   This presentation/question and answer session will be held in Room KE 2008 from 13.00-14.00approx.

Graduate and Intern Recruitment - Cisco

Cisco are recruiting for graduate and intern positions.

Details are given below.

Students who wish to apply for the above positions should click on the following link: http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/HVExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mHvexternal.showJobCategory

Candidates need to look either under Full Time Engineering or Intern Engineering and follow the instructions.

Cisco Engineering Organization: Graduate Software Engineer

Location: Galway, Ireland

The Opportunity

It’s an exciting time to work at Cisco. Our software is lighting up Unified Communications and breaking new ground in the area of Virtualization. We seek Graduate Engineers for the Software Engineering Team within the Cisco Collaboration & Communications Group to help us create the next generation of Unified Communications software and services.

A Graduate Software Engineer will be part of the Agile Software Development team contributing to some or all aspects of the Software Development Cycle from Product Definition and Architecture through software coding, build, test, solution deployment, customer rollout and post deployment support.

Primary Responsibilities, Skills and Attributes of successful candidates include:

• Deliver world-class, globally deployed Unified Communications Products.

• Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and be flexible

• Problem solving skills across multiple technologies and environments with strong investigation and troubleshooting skills

• Strong teamwork and communication skills, both written and oral in a highly collaborative Agile environment

• Software Development and Coding mainly in Multi-Threaded C++ on Windows and Linux.

• Additional coding skills in some or all of C/JSP/Java/JavaScript/HTML/Python

• Hands on testing of applications with a strong emphasis on Automation.

• Object Oriented Design methodologies and Software Design Principles delivered via an Agile process environment

• Demonstrate practical application of these attributes via project or intern work

Knowledge of the following areas would be an advantage:

• Experience on a Linux or cross-platform development environment

• Experience with TCP/IP based networking

• Cisco Certification and product knowledge

• Microsoft Certification and product knowledge

• Skills in one or more of the following scripting languages: Perl, Python, Shell, Bash, Ruby, Tcl

• Unified Communications protocols

• AJAX, JavaScript and web application development

• Virtualization technologies

• Knowledge of Browser Plug-ins

• Video Technologies

Education Requirements:

B.Sc. / B.Eng / M.Sc / M.Eng or equivalents in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Computer Networking, Electronics or other equivalent disciplines with an emphasis on Software Design practices.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Graduated with undergraduate or graduate level degree within 24 months of start date

• Legally entitled to live and work in European Union

• Must be fluent in English

Start Date: Flexible depending on academic schedule with opportunities available for Summer 2012

To apply please complete the online application for a Graduate Software Engineer (Galway) at http://www.universityconnection.ciscoeos.com/

Please join our Facebook community: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/35880077360/ (Cisco Graduate Recruitment – European Markets – UK and Ireland)

Cisco Engineering Organization: Internships (2012) – Software Engineering

Location: Galway, Ireland

The Opportunity:

It’s an exciting time to work at Cisco. Our software is lighting up Unified Communications and breaking new ground in the area of Virtualization. We are seeking talented students to work as interns in the Software Engineering Team within the Cisco Collaboration & Communications Group. This is an opportunity to help us create the next generation of Unified Communications software and services.

A Software Engineering intern will be part of the Agile Software Development team contributing to some or all aspects of the Software Development Cycle from Product Definition and Architecture through software coding, build, test, solution deployment, customer rollout and post deployment support

Job Title: Software Engineering Intern

Cisco is looking to recruit for Software Engineering Intern positions.

Core Competencies:

 Good communication skills, both written and oral.

 Be self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and innovate.

 Have a passion for leading edge technologies.

The successful candidate will have some of the following skills:

 Knowledge and experience on Microsoft Windows™, Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems.

 Knowledge of Networking and/or Communications protocols (IP, HTTP, SIP)

 Intermediate to advanced coding skills in some of Java, C#, JavaScript, C++, C, Perl, TCL

 Knowledge of Web Technologies e.g. HTML, Javascript, XML

 Object Oriented Design methodologies and S/W Design Principles.

 Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Information Systems (s/w and h/w).

 Strong investigation and troubleshooting skills.

 Experience with VMWare

The successful candidate will participate in a team of engineers and responsibilities may include:

 Hands on coding in Java, C#, C++, Javascript.

 Assist in software architecture development, prototyping, debugging and testing.

 Reviewing Product Feature Specifications and creating design documentation and Test Plans

 Installing and troubleshooting test environments (s/w, h/w and network infrastructure)

 Scripting and coding of test cases

 Creating and running test cases, finding defects and documenting test results

 Lab support including server installation, backup and replacement.

Education Requirements:

Students in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Computer Networking, Electronics or other equivalent disciplines with an emphasis on Software Design practices.

Eligibility Requirements:

 Applicants must currently be enrolled in a relevant technology undergraduate or postgraduate program

 Ability to live and work in the EU with no additional sponsorship from Cisco

 Must be fluent in English

Start Date: Flexible depending on academic schedule, ideally seeking candidates requiring a work placement as part of their degree program

To apply please complete the online application for a Software Engineering Intern (Galway) at http://www.universityconnection.ciscoeos.com/

Please join our Facebook community: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/35880077360/

(Cisco Graduate Recruitment – European Markets – UK and Ireland)