Research assistant in a world leading research lab in digital music/audio

Work closely related to Audio/Music/Multimedia in a Spanish Research Lab.

Mostly it's research support but if you prove that you can bring new ideas or valuable research _with practical results_ in the field, research is possible (if desired) in signal processing, complex networks, information retrieval and other areas, all of those directly or indirectly related to audio & multimedia...

The salary is not that high - ? 20-24K / year, but the work is fun... or so it's supposed to be... Other advantages include a fairly flexible working hours, team from all over the world, and working in _the leading_ reseach lab in the digital audio/music research lab.

Only for ex-students from MSU (VMK, MM, Phys) at the moment. Others may write, but the chances for response are much lower.

For initial contact use el_que@mail.ru -> will give the final contact email there.


===== Content-based Multimedia retrieval systems developer
You will help a team of researchers by developing and implementing a functional music information retrieval demo software system. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible system to provide the infrastructure for music search engines.
2. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo system itself.
- Profile:
1. Experience in developing content-based multimedia retrieval systems
2. Familiarity with some of the following: Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text); Matching and similarity search in multimedia databases High-Dimensional Indexing; Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing; Machine learning;
Representation models; Meta-data compression and transformation; Handling of very large scale multimedia database.


===== Information retrieval systems developer
You will help a team of researchers by developing and implementing a functional music information retrieval demo software system. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and implement a functioning, extensible system to provide the infrastructure for music search engines.
2. Test, debug and document the software design and the demo system itself.
- Profile:
1. Experience in developing information retrieval systems.
2. Familiarity with some of the following: Text Representation and Indexing, XML and Metadata, Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile Applications; Web IR, Intranet/Enterprise Search, Citation and Link Analysis; Digital Libraries;
Distributed IR; Collaborative filtering; Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR;
Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics

===== DB Designer and System Developer
You will help a team of researchers by architecting, designing, developing and testing functional music and audio content retrieval systems. Proposed tasks include:
1. Architect and develop backends that sustain significant load and should be highly scalable.
2. Test and document the software design and the systems.
- Profile:
1. +3 years of experience in designing and developing web applications.
2. Unix (Linux) experience
3. SQL, MySQL experience (Oracle and Postgres is a plus)
4. Shell scripting, Python, PHP, Perl experience
5. Familiarity with distributed systems, machine learning, information retrieval and/or experience with large data (over 100Gigabyte of data) is a plus.