Ruby/Rails Programmer needed at UAlberta

[Abram Hindle]

Here's a position that's available at UAlberta:

Seeking Research Programmer

I am looking to hire a full-time research programmer, to work with me and my team on a variety of projects.

The ideal candidate would be...

• familiar with machine learning techniques, especially high-dimensional data
  (eg, Microarray, SNPs, …)

• good math skills, in general

• capable programmer -- in …

• Matlab / R / SciPy
• Java, Ruby-on-Rails
• various tools for developing phone-apps, including IBM Worklight

• sys-admin savvy: know Linux systems (RedHat, Ubuntu), and be able to manage web servers, do system updates, etc.
• team-player

• able to work effectively with a range of colleagues,
  including medical collaborators as well as ComputingScience colleagues
• willing to do whatever is needed for a successful project

• very good communicator, in both written and spoken English
• interested in medical informatics projects

• (Knowledge of biology and/or medicine is useful, but is not required.)

• able to effectively time-share many different tasks, both large and small

• developing/extending PSSP
• developing/extending IDM/EASI
• See also other systems;  research in general

If you qualify and are interested, please email

• a cover letter, summarizing your qualifications, and your preferred starting data,
• a current resume, and
• a list of names of references

to rgre...@ualberta.ca

with subject line: “Research Programmer”

This position is available immediately.