Want to build the "Siri for Education?" Cognii's mission is to transform education with the help of artificial intelligence technologies. We are seeking bright and talented team members for engineering, business development and product marketing positions.

Cognii's award winning Virtual Learning Assistant technology provides automated assessment of students' open-response answers and AI based virtual personalized tutoring that guides students towards conceptual mastery. As education moves online, assessment and feedback have been identified as the main challenges to making online education successful. Cognii team has developed the conversational AI and Natural Language Processing technologies optimized for the education market and has already shown successful market traction.

The engineering and research team works on natural language processing and machine learning technologies for educational assessments. You will have the opportunity to work with the experienced team towards developing compelling products and solutions for our growing customer demand.

As a member of our research engineering team, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Design and implement NLP algorithms for educational assessments
• Semantic modeling of textual data
• Write scripts and tools for performance analysis
• Maintain and update the system
• Contribute to technical documentation of system modules and results

You should have experience and background in following areas with a strong commitment to developing practical applications

• natural language understanding
• statistical machine learning
• syntactic and semantic analysis
• textual entailment and assessment
• large scale data modeling
• information extraction and filtering
• educational technology experience is a plus

Cognii provides the opportunity for research and development of some of the most challenging problems in natural language processing and computer science. If you feel that writing programs to process a few words long input is boring and want the challenge of extracting meaning from a paragraph length input, then Cognii would love to talk to you!

Desired Qualifications:

• MS or PhD in computer science or related discipline
• Strong background in statistical modeling, NLP and machine learning
• Proficiency with C/C++, Java, Ruby/Python, Matlab/Octave, Shell scripting
• Familiarity with SQL, Git, AWS EC2
• Experience in analyzing data using statistical/psychometric techniques
• Demonstrate a willingness to learn and apply a wide range of technologies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills