Software Developer

This place is part of the Non-Educational Workers Affiliation (NASA).

This place has a time period size of 2 years with the opportunity of an extension and gives a complete advantages package deal which might be considered on our Advantages Overview web page .

Location

This function is hybrid with a mixture of distant and in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus Edmonton .

Working for the College of Alberta

The College of Alberta acknowledges that we’re situated on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all First Peoples of Canada, whose presence continues to counterpoint our vibrant neighborhood.

The College of Alberta is teeming with change makers, neighborhood builders, and world shapers who lead with objective each day. We’re residence to greater than 40,000 college students in 200+ undergraduate and 500+ graduate packages, over 13,000 school and workers, 260,000 alumni worldwide and have been acknowledged as one among Canada’s Greenest Employers for over a decade.

Your work may have a significant affect on a captivating cross-section of individuals—from our college students and stakeholders to our famend researchers and innovators who’re fairly actually curing illnesses, making discoveries and producing options that make the world more healthy, safer, stronger, and extra simply.

Working for the Linguistics Division, School of Arts

The Alberta Language Expertise Laboratory (ALTLab ) is a analysis lab based by Dr. Antti Arppe and primarily based within the College of Alberta Linguistics division. Our lab focuses on analysis and improvement of language know-how, with a selected deal with Indigenous languages, to assist language studying, literacy, and language sustainability.

Place Abstract

The university-community Partnership “twenty first Century Instruments for Indigenous Languages ”, a mission funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Analysis Council (SSHRC) of Canada, is searching for a dynamic particular person as a full-time Software program Developer so as to add to its crew within the Alberta Language Expertise Lab (ALTLab ) on the College of Alberta.

This Partnership goals to develop computational fashions of the sound, phrase, and sentence construction (phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis) of Indigenous languages in Canada and North America to create software program functions that assist their continued use in day by day life by each audio system and learners. These embrace clever digital dictionaries, keyboards, spell-checkers, linguistically analyzed collections of written or spoken texts, computer-aided language studying instruments, in addition to fundamental speech know-how and optical character recognition, amongst others. Present variations of a few of these instruments might be discovered right here: https://21c.instruments/sources/ – our flagship utility is itw êwina : https://itwewina.altlab.app/

Duties

• Software program improvement of language technological functions, instruments, and sources (see above) for each internet and cellular platforms (80%), with the assist of the lab’s interns and college students
• Participating with our nationwide and worldwide Companions and Indigenous end-user communities (15%)
• Taking part within the dissemination of the outcomes of our work (5%)

Minimal {Qualifications}

• A Grasp’s or Bachelor’s diploma in Laptop Science or Software program Engineering
• Data of the grammar of a language aside from English
• Vital (2+ years) expertise in software program improvement in Python utilizing fashionable tooling, strategies, and methodologies
• Vital (2+ years) expertise in software program improvement in JavaScript and/or TypeScript utilizing fashionable instruments, strategies, and methodologies
• Expertise managing Linux/UNIX servers, together with expertise in UNIX command line instruments
• Vital (2+ years) expertise utilizing the git model management system with GitHub and/or different on-line repository internet hosting platforms
• Demonstrable understanding of test-driven improvement, unit testing, and integration testing in Python and front-end JavaScript
• Expertise performing code evaluations

 Most popular {Qualifications}

• Expertise working with production-level Django and/or Django REST
• Expertise working with containerized companies, corresponding to Docker
• Expertise working with cellular improvement software program, Android and/or iOS; data of Kivy and/or buildozer is an asset
• Expertise working with audio processing and/or speech applied sciences (automated transcription or synthesis) is an asset

On the College of Alberta, we’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring course of for all candidates. If you happen to require lodging to take part within the interview course of, please tell us on the time of reserving your interview and we’ll make each effort to accommodate your wants. 

Be aware: On-line functions are accepted till midnight Mountain Customary Time of the cut-off date.

We thank all candidates for his or her curiosity; nonetheless, solely these people chosen for an interview will likely be contacted.