Textkernel is hiring: Data & Quality Assistant (16-24 hrs)

Are you looking for a part-time job while pursuing your education?

Textkernel is an innovative, fast-growing software company that specializes in multilingual information extraction, document understanding, web mining and semantic searching & matching in the Human Resources sector. Textkernel's software learns from examples how to perform complex document interpretation tasks using the state-of-the-art in machine learning and statistical NLP techniques. We are an informal and R&D-oriented company based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Currently we have a team of 40 people, largely at PhD and MSc level, from all across the world.

Read more about Textkernel at http://www.textkernel.com/.

Job Description

We are looking for a Data & Quality Assistant in addition to our Data & Quality Team. You will work together with the other team members, doing a variety of things: from simple data maintain tasks to more complex quality processes: you will work on different parts of our software and products.

Highly intersting for a student, to orient on a future job in a innovative Language Technology company. Besides, you can manage most of your working hours yourself, allowing you to combine studies and work easily. This is a great opportunity to put your education into practice and the job comes with several opportunities for growth within our company.

Desired Skills & Experience

- Intermediate scripting skills (for example perl, python);
- Basic knowledge of XML, MySQL, Excel (or: OpenOffice Calc);
- English and Dutch, (plus German and/or French would be a plus)
- Show initiative and good communication skills;
- Willing to learn-on-the-job

The company culture is results driven, innovative, and informal. We are an international team with lots of ambition. Personal development is stimulated and we like working with new technologies. We have a good team spirit that is celebrated with drinks on Friday.

Come meet us in our great loft-like office that is located between a historical yacht harbour and a park in Amsterdam North. It's on biking distance from the city centre and there are good public transport connections.

Contact

Don't hesitate and sent your resume to:
Monica Haga-Schoonhoven - Team Lead Data Quality
Mail: schoonhoven at textkernel.nl
Phone: 020-4942496 (ask for Monica)