If you are bubbling over with ideas; love and live technology; are self-motivated; enjoy a good spirited debate; are constantly thinking a few years ahead; want early access to cutting edge technology; have been called insatiably curious and articulate; and want to see your own ideas come to fruition you should be talking with us. We are Orange Labs San Francisco.

We are looking for a candidate that brings an entrepreneurial attitude, has a driven desire to be innovative, goes beyond simple task execution and have the deep desire to network in the valley through conferences, seminars, and other business means.

Orange Labs San Francisco is the Bay Area division of one of the world’s largest corporate research and development organizations. The San Francisco lab’s mission is to anticipate, develop, explore, and research technologies as well as business models coming from the Silicon Valley. The lab's projects are all focused on creating novel consumer services for the converged web, mobile, television markets, and Next Generation enterprise services, platforms & networks. The lab has a startup-like atmosphere with small teams working on innovative ideas.

Unlike many corporate research departments, Orange Labs San Francisco is charged with bringing ideas from concept to working prototype. Projects are engineering driven and proactively marketed internally to our business units for rapid implementation (trials and commercial deployments).

Job Description:

When you were choosing your PhD direction, if you chose topics like Cloud Computing, Augmented Reality, Semantic Web, or Real-time event processing over Storage, Parallel Computing, or Operations Research, we want to speak with you. We really want to speak with you if you chose Semantic Web (or if you would have if you could).

Due to the R&D context, the statements contained in this job description are not necessarily all-inclusive; additional duties may be assigned and requirements may vary from time to time.

Responsibilities:
(Bold typed are major responsibilities for this role)

• Detect new technology trends in enterprise software space (10%)
• Engage with academic and research institution in the area of next generation enterprise software, architecture & technologies (20%)
• Design & develop research projects (25%)
• Conduct analytical studies on research projects and present results to top management and external research institutions & organizations (10%)
• Actively participate in research community as a thought leader and publish research papers in research conferences & workshops (15%)
• Write patent proposal and file them with national and international patent agencies (5%)
• Identify and articulate new technology & research trends
• Write whitepapers on nascent technologies targeting top management

As a Future Enterprise Researcher ( Research Scientist) you are responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with the research community on future enterprise software, architecture, and usage. You will be identifying, conceiving, and proposing research ideas to R&D executive management and if all goes well, execute on these projects.

Requirements:

• Minimum ten years overall software research & development experience of which five years were spent researching emerging developments in the enterprise software space.
• PhD is mandatory with specialization in any one of the following fields – Semantic Web, Next Generation Enterprise Collaboration, Enterprise Augmented Reality, Cloud Services, Data Mining, and Visualization
• Ability to accomplish non trivial milestones on relatively unknown topics in short period of time
• Previous experience working in academic/university or enterprise research labs is a must
• Experience in private-public academic industry partnership and writing research proposals and getting grants from government institutions.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity & uncertainty with a degree of maturity
• Ability to take core research project ideas/concepts and sell them to product groups
• Outstanding communication skills, persuasion and ability to promote innovative service concepts to management and executive-level audiences
• Previous experience in filing patents and presenting research papers in conferences, seminars, and workshops
• Hands-on experience with Semantic Web technologies & tools – RDF, SPARQL, OWL, Microformats & protege – is a big plus.
• Development experience using C/C++, Java & XML, .NET, LAMP stack, and RDBMS.
• Knowledge of French a plus

No Relocation Package.

BENEFITS:
M/D/V/STD/LTD/Life/Bonus/401(k)

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