Michael Carney of Pando Daily reports, “The last few years have been good to the Los Angeles tech scene, with more money, more talent, and more recognition coming to the community… After explaining why the critical infrastructure elements and culture of entrepreneurship have reached a critical mass that has never been the case before, the response tends to be one of qualification: “But LA doesn’t build real technology.” I believe this comes partially from the basic human need to categorize and explain things. In LA, that can be difficult, because the market is as diverse as any in the world… It’s a myth that LA doesn’t build hardcore technology, but to set the record straight, below are seven venture-backed LA companies of various sizes and stages with talented engineering teams building ‘deep tech’.” Read more

Zynx Health is looking for a Staff Data Scientist in West Los Angeles, CA. The post states, “Do you want to get your hands on mountains of healthcare data and create new decision support products that save lives? Do you know enough about information retrieval, natural language processing and machine learning to turn data into gold? Are you ready to ship production code that gets used by thousands of physicians? Do you say: ‘the more data the better!’ If your answer is yes, then this job is for you. As a Staff Data Scientist, we will get you in touch with our data platform. You will work closely with our engineering teams to build and ship statistical models. You will design and analyze experiments to drive our data collection efforts. You will work closely with product management to analyze usage data to drive the creation of new products.” Read more

A collaborative initiative by the three University of California campuses in Southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego, and Irvine) has been announced. UCLA, UCSD, and UCI are coming together for the first time to form a semantic Computing Consortium. The intent of the consortium will be to ally Semantics from both the Industry/Commercial and Academic Perspectives, not only to promote the technology, but also to create an infrastructure usable to all participants, in addition to stimulating the interest of this still nascent, but extremely powerful technology.

The existence of the Semantic Computing Center will undoubtedly have a powerful and positive impact on the Southern California community in general, as well as facilitate significant advancement and progress in the Arena of Semantic Computing, from both an academic and commercial prospective. Having such a powerful consortium here in Southern California is an extremely exciting prospect and will facilitate in defining/creating Southern California as a high tech strip with respect to Semantic Computing.

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Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is looking for a Lead Data Systems Engineer in Los Angeles, CA. According to the post, “The Lead Data Systems Engineer’s (LDSE) develops software systems for integrating, processing, and managing clinical data for research purposes. Communicates with project managers, data analysts, clinical researchers, physicians, software engineers, software architects, computer scientists. Possesses the abilities and qualities of a Data Architect for data system design, Software Architect for software system design, and Software Engineer for daily programming. Designs and builds systems for data storage or processing. Develops strategies for data management. Integrates various data sources to meet organizational requirements.” Read more

Semantic startup OrangeDog is looking for an OWL/SPARQL /RDF Semantic Expert in Los Angeles, CA. According to the post, “We are looking for an expert in semantic technologies — OWL, RDF, SPARQL, SWRL etc. Your role will be threefold. First, to act as a technical consultant for the other engineers in the team ensuring that all our products and code meet the technical requirements of such semantic technologies. Second, to develop innovate applications of reasoning, rules, etc. for new products. And finally, to potentially develop a new OWL reasoner (we have some applications in mind where current OWL reasoners are not ideal).” Read more

Zynx is looking for a Data Architect in Los Angeles, CA. According to the post, “The Data Architect at Zynx will apply semantic technology and algorithms and work with  modeling tools and  Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) in order to develop innovative solutions which improve cost and quality outcomes around the delivery of Clinical Decision Support content and services.” Responsibilities include: “Own the overall data models that drive the company’s products. Define the scope of enterprise and domain ontologies based on business requirements. Design and develop best practices and guidelines to develop, validate, use, maintain, and extend the ontologies. Provide expertise in designing and developing ontology-driven applications. Elucidate the value of semantic technologies and applications to alternative approaches to non-technical management.” Read more

Prosum is searching for a Solutions Architect – Semantic Web in Los Angeles, CA. The post states, “The Solution Architect at will be responsible for technical design and execution of a multi-national SaaS for clinical decision support by translating business goals and requirements into technical product concepts and architectures, workflow and abstraction models, and data lifecycle and federation strategies.” Read more

Amazon is looking for Software Development Engineers, Semantic Web & Information Retrieval in Seattle, WA. According to the post, “Amazon.com’s External Content Team is looking for exceptional software engineers who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. As a member of the team, you will have a great opportunity to build platform level features and systems for integrating with authoritative content like Wikipedia, IMDB, DPReview, etc, extracting semantic information and mapping them to products on Amazon.com. In this role, you will be driving the analytics and mining of content so that we can surface them in the most relevant way on the site as well as build algorithms to match Amazon destinations (e.g. products, entities, search queries) to the content.” Learn more and apply here. Read more