Semantic Technology Specialist

As a key member of Primal Fusion's research team, your design, development, and leadership skills will be used to the utmost limits. You must have a thorough command of Semantic Web technologies and knowledge representation. You have experience working with Internet-scale, distributed data systems. Your ability to think abstractly lets you understand complex problems and create solutions. Your foresight and experience help you anticipate design consequences before implementation. You are a hands-on leader and an evangelist able to support a community of internal and external professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance in the evaluation, design, integration, and interoperability of XML schema based on Semantic Web infrastructure, including RDF/S, OWL, and SPARQL.
• Provide access and support across large-scale, distributed, non-relational data stores.
• Syndication technologies and schema, RSS, Atom.
• Coordinate evaluation, integration, and interoperability across a number of open XML schemas such as FOAF, SKOS, and Microformats.
• Evaluate and develop ontology and taxonomy.
• Support and integrate related tools.
• Evangelize and conduct outreach to external communities of development in ontology and metadata initiatives.
• Provide input into overall application and platform architecture.
• Consult with feature designers and project planners to determine feasibility, approach, and timelines.
• Conduct detailed code reviews to ensure compliance and completeness.
• Ensure that defects found during functional and regression testing are corrected.
• Seek and advocate improvements in Primal Fusion's software development practices.

Requirements

• Strong background in computer science, software engineering, or knowledge engineering.
• Advanced technical degree or equivalent professional experience or training required.
• Outstanding technical and non-technical communications skills.
• Strong background in knowledge representation and acquisition.
• Strong background in data architecture and data modeling.
• Familiarity with ontology development, querying tools, and languages.
• Exceptional commercial software track record building Internet-scale applications and multi-tier distributed business applications, with a design focus from the ground up. Experience with service-oriented architectures a plus.
• Solid experience in building scalable open-source technologies with a demonstrated understanding of Java, XML (FOAF, SKOS, Microformats), XSLT, RDF/S, OWL, and SPARQL.
• Experience with the .NET Framework, C#, and related technologies, with awareness of WCF, WF, EDM, and LINQ a plus.
• Thorough understanding of common design patterns, agile development methodologies, and best practices.
• Excellent leaderships skills, consensus-building, adaptable, and influential.
• Positive attitude and a results-oriented work ethic.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Ability to self-monitor progress against project goals and to employ corrective actions.