INSPIRE Job Postings
Operational Web Developer*, SLAC, USA
Location: Menlo Park, California, USAJob Requisition #: 601
# of openings: 1
Description
The operational web developer will be responsible for a variety of day-to-day duties necessary to the ongoing management of an internationally utilized information resource. These include, but are not limited to: new feature development on the Invenio repository management platform, production deployment, maintenance programming, systems automation and test. At SLAC, the operational web developer will be part of a small, multidisciplinary team. As part of the INSPIRE collaboration, the web developer will communicate effectively and work in a highly collaborative, multicultural community.
Background
Operated by CERN (Geneva), DESY (Hamburg), Fermilab (Chicago), and SLAC (Stanford) and built on the Open Source Invenio digital library software, INSPIRE serves 1 million records to 50,000 High-Energy Physics researchers worldwide. INSPIRE, in production at http://inspirehep.net, provides fast metadata and full-text searches, author disambiguation, citation analysis, and is expanding its content and services in a community-centric approach, in addition to journal publications and other scientific contents. We anticipate users will soon be submitting scientific documents, and large scale recovery of historical OCR'ed material will take place, with hundreds of thousands of documents from 3 to 300 pages long. Further, we will explore and expand initiatives for figures and tables extraction from the text, as well as contextual information on references. Finally INSPIRE is heavily involved in Data Preservation initiatives in the HEP field and author ID initiatives in scholarly communications in general. For more information on INSPIRE see http://projecthepinspire.net.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Physics, or related field
- Strong ability to develop, test, and monitor performance of application code; to respond quickly to staff and user needs; and to produce accurate and reliable results in a dynamic, time-sensitive and high-visibility environment
- Experience with Unix/Linux and one or more of the following: Python, JavaScript, Perl
- Experience in web management, system administration, or operations.
- Ability to work and communicate effectively with others in a highly collaborative, multicultural community.
Requirements:
- Experience with LaTeX, XML/XSL, git, Lucene/SOLR/Other search engines, digital document repository systems (Invenio, DSpace, etc)
- Experience with scholarly publications, search engines, information retrieval
- Experience with scientific research
- Experience in logfile analysis, data mining
- Experience with lightweight development methodologies such as agile or scrum
Desired Skills:
* If the successful candidate has extensive experience in both the required and desired skills listed above and can perform the full range of responsibilities independently, hire at the 4P3 level.
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