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Greg,
It was a pleasure to meet you last night. The meeting was fabulous. I just moved into a new role at eBay and this was my first ACM Data Mining meeting. I’m looking forward to more.
Thanks,
Brian Johnson
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Recruiter: Mike Bacher mbacher@ebay.com
Position: Principal Software Engineer, Search Query Understanding
Education: Masters Degree or Equivalent
Primary Job Responsibilities
* Do you have what it takes to improve a world-class real-time search engine that serves millions of queries a day?
* Do you thrive on developing efficient data mining algorithms that pull needles out of large haystacks?
* Do you dream of having access to closed loop supply, demand, and transaction data?
* Do you know how to combine quantitative and qualitative data?
* Can you automate crowdsourcing to provide evaluation and training data?
* We are passionate about building the best search platform for the world’s largest online marketplace and are looking for top-notch software engineers.
* Collaborate with architects, engineers, QA and Operations teams to architect and develop strategic and tactical solutions.
* Lead and estimate engineering effort, plan implementations, and rollout applications with cross-functional impact.
* Must be able to independently design, develop and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex applications.
* Provide technical leadership and mentoring to other teams and team members.
* Implement proof-of-concept prototypes for data collection, analysis, and presentation.
* Technical lead for new and existing product initiatives, assist with definition of product direction
* Define, design, and implement software applications. Segment and design system layers to support componentized and layered application development.
* Work with other engineers, managers, Product Management, QA, and Operations teams to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to functionality, performance, reliability, realistic implementation schedules, and adherence to development goals and principles.
* Estimate engineering effort; plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
* Share engineering support, release, and on-call responsibilities.
Job Requirements
* MS in Computer Science or related field.
* 8+ years experience in requirements analysis, design, coding and unit testing of scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications in NT and UNIX environments.
* Expertise required in object-oriented design methodology and application development in Java.
* Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
* Excellent problem solving skills.
* Solid DB skills, data warehouse and data mining expertise desired.
* Familiarity with search/recommendation/classification applications and domains preferred.
* Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus in a high velocity, high quality environment.
Basic Qualifications
* MS in Computer Science or related field
* 8+ years software development experience
* 3+ years Java experience
* Information Retrieval (search/recommendation/classification) experience
Sr. Software Architect – Core Server
Looking for top 1% people for an early stage startup….
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sr. Software Architect will be a key contributor to the overall architecture, design and implementation of the software platform using cutting-edge Java technologies. The Sr. Software Architect will be involved in evaluating and researching emerging technologies, which contribute to the platform’s competitive advantage and comply with its top performance and security requirements.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
• BS or higher degree in Computer Science, CIS, IT, or related fields, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience in development in Java, J2EE and with Application Servers, such as JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
• Familiarity with C++ and good mathematical skills are a plus
• Experience with scripting languages, such as bash, Python, Perl
• Experience with XML technologies
• Focus on Quality and experience with Unit Testing frameworks, such as JUnit, XMLUnit, DBUnit
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent research & troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Linux/UNIX
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and works well both independently and within a team
Areas of Expertise
• Experience in design and implementation of a distributed server architecture
• Experience in development of enterprise-level applications complying with top performance & security requirements
• Experience in Rules, Workflow and Complex Event Processing (CEP), such as Drools, StreamBase, Oracle CEP, IBM InfoSphere Streams
• Experience with Distributed Caching technologies, such as JBoss Cache, GemFire, Coherence, Memcached
• Experience using JMS technology and Message Queue system providers, such as JBoss Messaging, ActiveMQ, WebSphere MQ
• Extensive experience in design and implementation of secure web services interfaces, such as CXF, Axis
• Experience with both SOAP and RESTful web services
• Experience with Hibernate, Hibernate Validator, JDBC
Contact Greg Makowski
Sr. Software Engineer – Core Server
Looking for top 1% people for a new startup …
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sr. Software Engineer will be joining a team of highly qualified individuals responsible for design and implementation of the software platform using cutting-edge Java technologies. The Sr. Software Engineer will be responsible for the development and testing of the core server’s components. He/she will be involved in the full life cycle of the development, from analyzing the technical requirements to ensuring that the software is ready for production.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
• BS degree in Computer Science, CIS, IT, or related fields, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience in development in Java, J2EE and with Application Servers, such as JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
• Familiarity with C++ and good mathematical skills are a plus
• Experience with scripting languages, such as bash, Python, Perl
• Experience with XML technologies
• Focus on Quality and experience with Unit Testing frameworks, such as JUnit, XMLUnit, DBUnit
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent research & troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Linux/UNIX
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and works well both independently and within a team
Areas of Expertise
• Experience in design and implementation of a distributed server architecture
• Experience in development of enterprise-level applications complying with top performance & security requirements
• Experience in Rules, Workflow and Complex Event Processing (CEP), such as Drools, StreamBase, Oracle CEP, IBM InfoSphere Streams
• Experience with Distributed Caching technologies, such as JBoss Cache, GemFire, Coherence, Memcached
• Experience using JMS technology and Message Queue system providers, such as JBoss Messaging, ActiveMQ, WebSphere MQ
• Extensive experience in design and implementation of secure web services interfaces, such as CXF, Axis
• Experience with both SOAP and RESTful web services
• Experience with Hibernate, Hibernate Validator, JDBC
contact Greg _ Makowski (at) yahoo dot com
Sr. Software Engineer – UI Development
Looking for top 1% people for an early stage startup…
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sr. Software Engineer will be joining a team of highly qualified individuals responsible for design and implementation of the software platform using cutting-edge Java technologies. The Sr. Software Engineer will be responsible for the design and implementation of the system’s user interface ensuring best customer experience and great functionality. He/she will be involved in the full life cycle of the development, from analyzing the technical requirements to ensuring that the software is ready for production.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
• BS degree in Computer Science, CIS, IT, or related fields, or equivalent experience
• Extensive experience in development in Java, J2EE and with Application Servers, such as JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
• Familiarity with C++ and good mathematical skills are a plus
• Experience with scripting languages, such as bash, Python, Perl
• Experience with XML technologies
• Focus on Quality and experience with Unit Testing frameworks, such as JUnit, XMLUnit, DBUnit
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent research & troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Linux/UNIX
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and works well both independently and within a team
Areas of Expertise
• Extensive experience developing web 2.0 applications
• Highly proficient with cross-browser/platform UI using JSP, CSS, DHTML and JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, Ext/JS
• Experience with UI frameworks, such as GWT, Flex, Apache Struts, Spring
• Experience in Web UI Testing Frameworks, such as WebTest, Selenium
contact Greg _ Makowski (at) yahoo (dot) com
Sr. Software Engineer – Prediction Engine
Looking for top 1% people for an early stage startup…
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
The Sr. Software Engineer will be joining a team of highly qualified individuals responsible for design and implementation of the software platform using cutting-edge Java technologies. The Sr. Software Engineer will be responsible for the design and implementation of the system’s predictive engine identifying new patterns in the data that enable better prediction of results. He/she will be involved in the full life cycle of the development, from analyzing the technical requirements to ensuring that the software is ready for production.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
• Advanced degree in Statistics or Mathematics
• BS degree in Computer Science, CIS, IT, or related fields, or equivalent experience
• Extensive knowledge of Statistical Models and Machine Learning
• Experience in development in Java, J2EE and with Application Servers, such as JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat
• Experience in Statistical modeling, Bayesian techniques, data mining, neural networks, decision trees, etc
• Experience in developing systems using Behavior Analytics and Predictive Modeling engines
• Familiarity with C++ and good mathematical skills are a plus
• Experience with scripting languages, such as bash, Python, Perl
• Experience with XML technologies
• Focus on Quality and experience with Unit Testing frameworks, such as JUnit, XMLUnit, DBUnit
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent research & troubleshooting skills
• Experience with Linux/UNIX
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Highly motivated and works well both independently and within a team
contact Greg _ Makowski (at) yahoo (dot) com
Machine Learning Commando
Why work for a big company as another faceless cog tweaking an inconsequential feature to get people to buy more stuff they don’t need?
If you enjoy tackling awesome new problems and contributing your insights for the benefits of society and individuals, then you will love working together.
We are a small high-energy team who would greatly value your analytical horsepower. We aim to create products that are empirically sound and predictably robust.
We assure you your ideas will be implemented and fast!
Our start-up company needs a machine learning leader who is passionate about creating web-based platforms that enable human betterment and productivity.
We are building a platform that targets a large and growing market, with a compelling business model that has been vetted by top-tier VCs, Angels, and Silicon Valley veterans.
Our existing team has a top-shelf background (educational institutions, work experience, personal networks, passion, and common sense) to which your talents can add unique and complementary traits.
Our company culture: think of us as Hewlett and Packard back in 1960′s sans dorky glasses!
BTW, verbal and written proficiency in English is a must with clear US residency.
Note: Individual must be able to provide clearance & distance from any IP or non-compete restrictions from current or former employer.
Individual can be a current student who is looking to work on something cool and real for a start-up with a bullet proof business plan, large and deep market space and superior business leadership.
Qualities required:
• experience with data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis
• Lead, design and develop machine learning algorithms and solutions
• Computation and software programs such as R, Matlab, Java, C++
We expect this to be an equity-only role in the early stages. As we get the next round of funding, we will ask if you would like to continue in this journey with us on a full time role with the team.
We are excited about this opportunity and are interested in sharing it with someone who can bring immediate web-tech value.
We can share substantial information within a typical NDA/Non-Compete framework.
Please reply to Chirag@economistcapital.com
EconomistCapital is a stealth mode startup in Silicon Valley that helps companies manage and evaluate their risk profiles. We are supported by experienced VCs and respected Angels.
Become, Inc. is the fastest growing online comparison shopping engine and marketing services company in the industry with over 25 million visits per month to our worldwide properties. Our Company has raised over $37 million from investors including TPG, European Founders Fund, TransCosmos and Ron Conway; and we have just completed our fifth consecutive year of record revenues.
We have recently acquired two companies in Japan and Germany to accelerate our growth in the international markets, and as a result we are aggressively hiring for our Teams in Sunnyvale, CA.
Jr. Data Engineer – Information Retrieval
Become, Inc. offers competitive compensation packages that include health benefits, 401K, flexible health spending accounts, onsite food services and attractively priced pre-IPO stock options. Our Class AAA offices are located near CalTrain and the Sunnyvale Town Center.
Become.com is looking for energetic, talented, ambitious individuals to join our engineering team. Our ideal candidates will have a desire to learn leading edge technologies while working in a fast paced start-up environment.
We are focused on creating the next generation tools for comparison shopping and vertical search, applying innovative concepts for crawling, ranking, indexing and classification; to deliver the highest quality shopping experience for our visitors and merchants alike.
We are recruiting for Jr. Data Engineers to help us work on interpreting large data sets, A/B testing results and log files.
Requirements:
* BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
* Fluency in C++, Java, SQL and Perl.
* Knowledge of Linux OS and Apache web services.
* Background in mathematics or data processing.
* 2 years of software development experience in a start-up environment is preferred.
* Experience with programming for eCommerce or other Internet applications is a big plus.
For immediate consideration, please send a Word or PDF version of your resume with subject “Jr Data Eng” to job.JrEng@become.com.
Director of Business Intelligence – Product Development
Los Gatos, CA
http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix3487
The Position:
Known for its technical innovation, cinematic wisdom and analytic prowess, Netflix is among the most sophisticated Silicon Valley companies when it comes to using data for strategic decision-making. In this data-driven culture, the Business Intelligence (BI) group is responsible for getting timely, accurate, and relevant data into the hands of decision-makers. The decisions facilitated by Netflix’s BI platform drive the company’s strategy, direction, and efficiency. The team faces new and exciting challenges on the cutting edge of BI. We are looking for the best and brightest in the industry to help to innovate new ways in applying data to our business.
The Role:
This position will challenge even the most experienced veteran. Working with the Product Development team, this role will drive the measurement of the Netflix streaming video products, partner devices, website, and content delivery networks. The need to think differently about business, architecture, and process is pronounced. Metric definitions need to be pioneered, traditional technologies challenged, and the development process made fluid.
We are looking for a guru that has spanned the full BI Stack, from ETL to Database Development to Reporting and Analysis. In addition, the individual will need to possess skills to help engineer data acquisition and instrumentation techniques. Leadership skills are imperative – the role will manage 5-8 senior-level direct reports. Yet, hands-on skills are also critical in order stay agile and connected with the team as well as the content of the data. Most fundamental will be the ability to communicate and interact with the business to truly evoke and digest requirements and goals and to design an appropriate solution.
Responsibilities:
• Recruit and build a team of Silicon Valley’s top BI talent.
• Extract, interpolate, and translate business requirements into cogent data models that reflect the business. When appropriate, question and challenge business teams to understand assumptions, requirements, goals, and priorities.
• Work with engineers in the Product Development team to design methods for effective data capture and instrumentation. Assist in defining the taxonomy for characterizing data elements and insuring integrity.
• Allocate resources to various initiatives, balancing short-term and long-term goals.
• Develop agile processes for fluid delivery of data, information, and analyses to the business.
• Provide expert decision-support to analysts, managers, and executives in the usage and interpretation of data. Facilitate statistical analysis and data mining studies when appropriate.
• Maintain a sustainable balance between enterprise needs and that of the specific business group.
• Evangelize the use of the BI platform for strategic decision-making.
Qualifications:
• Prior experience as a successful VP or Director of Business Intelligence, Data Mining, or Data Architecture.
• MS/BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years working in Business Intelligence. Experience in the dynamic environments typical of Internet companies is preferred.
• Persuasive communication to articulate both business and technical objectives is essential.
• Experience with Reporting/BI tools (Microstrategy strongly preferred).
• Solid knowledge of data warehousing concepts is a must.
• Experienced in ETL development and tools (Ab Initio preferred).
• Extensive experience with relational databases for analytic processing is a must. That is, you must be a SQL jockey (Teradata and Oracle preferred).
• Experience with newer analytic processing technologies is desired (Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce, …etc)
• Proficiency with application architectures, distributed systems, Amazon Web Services also desired.
A few more things to know
• You will need to be comfortable to working in the most agile of environments. Requirements will be vague. Iteration will be rapid. You will need to take smart risks and design to recover quickly from mistakes.
• We expect a lot – a hands-on leader that is diverse in technical skill… yet, someone so passionate about the business that he or she not only provides the data, but digests it as well.
• Our culture is a bit unique, and we tend to live by our values, so it’s worth learning more about Netflix at http://www.netflix.com/Jobs.
About TeleNav
TeleNav is the world’s leading provider of location-based services for mobile phones. For turn-by-turn directions, TeleNav’s core offering, the company powers the default navigation service (the private-labeled or TeleNav branded) for seven of the top nine mobile operators in the North America, including AT&T and Sprint, Bell Canada and Telcel. Globally, TeleNav is available in 22 countries on 12 carriers covering over one billion subscribers. Profitable and pre-IPO, TeleNav is looking for a technically gifted, highly motivated, software developer/engineer lead capable of making an immediate impact, contributing to the expansion and fulfillment of the team’s vision. For more information, visit http://www.telenav.com
TeleNav Achievements:
#1 fastest growing company in Silicon Valley – Deloitte
#1 handheld MRM product – Frost & Sullivan
Responsibilities:
* Lead the entire life cycle from concept, prototype, 3rd party product evaluation/integration, design and implementation of a performance-oriented, scalable and maintainable backend platforms to improve TeleNav infrastructure scalability.
* Collaborate with product management to refine and prioritize new requirements, collaborate with QA to review and enhance test coverage, collaborate within the team and work closely with Developers and architects to define interfaces and integration points.
* Refine business requirements into technical requirements – understand and communicate those effectively.
* Code daily using excellent coding habits, produce quality design documents, disciplined unit/integration testing and cultish commitment to code- and process- quality.
* Drive excellence and task delivery using agile methodology with local and offshore teams.
Requirements:
* Bachelors degree in Computers Science or related field, M.S or PhD preferred.
* Superior coding skills in data structures and distributed algorithms.
* 3+ years of direct hands-on experience in Java or C++
* 3+ years of architecture and design skills – OO analysis, Design Patterns in a horizontally distributed Linux-based production environment.
* Demonstrable experience in webservices, REST and SOAP.
* Superior disciplined coding skills – Java expert level, ability to produce production ready code with least supervision.
* Strong database skills including schema and query design.
* Passionate about problem solving and coding.
* Superior interpersonal, communication, influence and negotiation skills and a no-whining attitude.
* Integrity in work and respect for everyone.
Specific skills:
* Languages: Java or C++
* Technologies: XML, SOAP, REST, J2EE, Apache Tomcat
* RDBMS: Oracle/MySQL and/or Berkeley DB
* IDE Tools: Eclipse, IntelliJ, NetBeans
* Source control: SVN, CVS and/or Clearcase
* Build tools: Ant, Maven
Pluses:
* Experience in telecom industry.
* Development using Hadoop framework.
* Development experience with mobile devices and mobile networks.
* Experience with architecture for multi-threaded, large scale real-time system.
* Development with Classification, Taxonomy and/or Clustering models.
* Experience or research interest in machine learning algorithms to solve classification problems to maximize object extraction identification and minimize false positives.
At TeleNav our employees are our greatest asset! The company has thoughtfully designed a competitive and comprehensive benefit program to protect employees and their family members.
TeleNav is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers competitive salaries and benefits packages including Health/Dental/Vision, 401K with company match, FSA, Group Life, LTD, Health Club Reimbursement and more. Please learn more about TeleNav at http://www.telenav.com.
Recruiter: Patricia Alvarez paalvarez@ebay.com
Position: Data Mining Engineer
Requisition No. 39103BR
Category Tech – Software Engineers
Work Location eBay San Jose
Shift Day
Primary Job Responsibilities:
Team
This position is part of the Trust and Safety (TnS) – Applied research group. We are responsible for applying advanced technology research to solve TnS business problems. TnS applications proactively prevent fraud, catch fraud, enforce eBay policies, as well as collect & mine data that will help build future Trust and Safety strategies. We build real time machine learning applications processing 100s of millions of transactions a day, learning from terabytes of historical data.
Responsibilities
1. Design and develop data preparation components and processes that extract and transform data across many DB tables and log files to prepare it for machine learning experiments.
2. Build high performance and scalable data mining processes to sort, merge, join and aggregate large data files.
3. Define complex SQL and other data extraction schemes to gather and filter needed data.
4. Build statistical analysis tools to validate and analyze the various data pulls.
5. Build high performance lookups for real time machine learning processes with appropriate indexing and memory optimization strategies.
6. Work with a large cross functional team consisting of scientists and engineers from eBay research and engineering teams, as well as analysts and business leaders from TnS and other business teams.
Job Requirements
1. MS in computer science or related field with 5 years of relevant experience. Or BS in computer science or related field with 7 years of relevant experience
2. A strong data analysis background with some exposure to statistical data analysis.
3. 3+ years of experience with large data set processing and data mining.
4. Strong programming skills (One or more of C/C++, java, perl, python with application to data mining)
5. 3+ years of hands-on SQL experience.
6. Good communication skills, ability to work with large cross functional teams.
Education Bachelors Degree Required
For consideration please forward a copy of your resume to paalvarez@ebay.com
Senior Software Engineer – Data Guru
Company Overview
Inadco is an online advertising start-up based in Palo Alto, CA. Inadco is offering engineers an early-stage opportunity to define and build the global platform for Cost-Per-Lead advertising.
Inadco’s innovative approach is transforming how media is bought and sold on the Internet. Inadco enables advertisers of all kinds to buy media on a Cost-Per-Lead basis and empowers publishers to sell inventory on a Cost-Per-Lead basis to earn more revenue than they can with impression or click-based advertising.
Inadco is led by experienced executives who helped start some of the most successful online advertising companies in the market today. Inadco is backed by Redpoint Ventures and successful Angel investors Mike Walrath (Right Media) and Matt Coffin (LowerMyBills.com).
Job Responsibilities
• Architect, implement and maintain a high-volume, high-availability hybrid (SQL + NoSQL) data processing infrastructure
• Design and implement a large distributed data warehousing and reporting solution
• Integrate 3rd-party business intelligence tools
Job Requirements
• MS in Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science
• Hands-on Java software development experience
• Expert-level mastery of Hadoop, particularly HDFS, MapReduce and at least one of the following: Pig, Hive, Cascading or Java MR
• Strong MySQL experience (coding & administration) and strong knowledge of RDBMS fundamentals
• Working knowledge of Machine Learning methodologies or other regression methodologies
Senior Software Engineer – Recommendation Algorithms
Los Gatos, CA
The Position:
At Netflix our goal is to help people find movies they love. Our small cross-functional recommendations team builds the algorithms and systems that predict members’ interest and enjoyment of each movie in our catalog. We fuel a personalized site for over 11 million members, striving to recommend the perfect movies for each person from a catalog of over 100,000 titles.
You have a passion for big data and big systems. You’ll bring algorithmic innovation to Top-N recommenders, consuming rich metadata, billions of movie ratings, and streams of member actions, to dramatically improve recommendation relevance for each member. In addition to devouring research publications and prototyping new directions, you’ll build the production systems that deliver this personalization on a massive scale in a cloud environment.
You are a seasoned C++/Java developer with the rare blend of both data mining and implementation excellence. You are an intellectually curious self-starter, and extraordinarily effective at building large-scale compute- and data-intensive systems. As a key member of the team you will be responsible for all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, implementation, tuning, testing, and monitoring of major systems.
Qualifications:
• 10+ years C++/Java development, preferably on UNIX, with BS or MS in Computer Science.
• Experience with personalization & data mining algorithms, statistical analysis and machine learning.
• Track-record building fast, reliable, large, multi-threaded scalable server systems.
Nice to have:
• Java middle-tier and web code experience.
• 64-bit application experience.
• Perl, SQL and emacs experience.
QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH ANALYST – MACHINE LEARNING
THOMSON REUTERS
Description
Thomson Reuters is the leading source of intelligent information for the world’s businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. Through its more than 50,000 people across 93 countries, Thomson Reuters delivers this must-have insight to the financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and media markets, and is powered by the world’s most trusted news organization. More information about Thomson Reuters and its financial performance can be found on http://www.ThomsonReuters.com.
StarMine, a Thomson Reuters brand, is a global leader in research analytics and is recognized as the Gold Standard in performance measurement (and investment process improvement). StarMine’s research and quantitative stock selection models are extensively used by both quantitative and fundamental portfolio managers at more than 550 of the top asset management firms around the world. StarMine products help them to more efficiently research companies, monitor their holdings, and generate investment ideas. We are known for “analyzing the analysts,” predicting earnings surprises, and intelligently filtering sell-side research. The quant research team is gearing up to embark on research on new models in both the equity and fixed income arenas. The models will make use of novel and sophisticated techniques to build predictive models from textual data – data sources that have traditionally been underutilized in quantitative models because of the difficulty in generating quantitative signals from textual data.
We are adding a Quantitative Research Analyst to Thomson Reuters StarMine’s Quantitative Research team in San Francisco on a contract basis. This is a 12-18 month contract position. The Analyst will participate in the initial research of one or more new models. You will join a team of top-notch quants and actively participate in the research process: reviewing academic literature, developing and testing hypotheses, becoming intimately familiar with large data sets, running analyses to test hypotheses, and gaining insights from research findings. If you are passionate about quantitative finance, have strong programming skills and knowledge and experience in sophisticated machine learning or text mining algorithms, are eager to learn, and excited about creating novel and robust quantitative models, then this is the job for you!
Primary responsibilities
• Review academic literature pertaining to quantitative modeling effort
• Participate in developing research hypotheses
• Gain familiarity with large research data sets and manipulating them
• Perform analyses to test hypotheses and formulate insights
• Present and communicate results and ideas clearly and concisely to other members of the research team
Qualifications
• B.S., preferably Master’s or Ph.D, in engineering, mathematics, sciences, computer science, economics, or finance
• Strong and significant programming experience in Python and R. Proficiency in a Unix or Linux environment.
• Top notch quantitative aptitude including knowledge and experience in applying sophisticated machine learning or text mining algorithms.
• Strong interest in finance
• Ability to think creatively and communicate complex concepts clearly and concisely
For consideration send a copy of your resume to ryan.roser@thomsonreuters.com with the subject “Machine Learning Contractor”
Thomson Reuters employees take pride in providing our customers around the world with information that is timely, accurate, unbiased and trusted. We have a profound respect for the professions and customers we serve and define our success in terms of their success. Our work environment is dynamic, innovative and entrepreneurial. We have a result-oriented culture that demands excellence, agility, and the desire to move quickly and precisely to seize opportunities. Our environment is both challenging and supportive – we give employees the opportunity to develop their skills and do their best work.
Thomson Reuters values diversity of culture and thought and seeks talented, qualified employees in all its operations around the world regardless of race, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age or any other protected classification under country or local law.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Member of Technical Staff – Relevance & Categorization
About Kosmix
Kosmix (www.kosmix.com) is your guide to the Web. We are a 65-person company made up of some of the brightest and most passionate minds in the areas of search engineering, web application development, product management and user experience. Kosmix is near profitable; we are very stable financially and with our emergence as a key player in real-time search space are on the cusp of major growth over the coming years.
Kosmix was founded in 2005 by Internet pioneers Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman (both Stanford CS alumni who also founded and sold Junglee to Amazon.com for $ 250 Million in 1998), and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an office in San Francisco, CA. Kosmix has raised $ 55M in funding from Time Warner Investments, Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dag Ventures, as well as private investors including Jeff Bezos, Jonathan Miller, and Ed Zander.
The Relevance/Categorization Team
Relevance & Categorization engineers at Kosmix develop the secret sauce that powers our site. We build the algorithms, applications, and systems that drive the success of our core Categorization and Topic Engines and have huge impact on user satisfaction.
We work on unique solutions to understand topics our users are looking for and providing them with high quality content. For this we use a variety of Problem Solving, Machine Learning, and Statistical Methods. We work on large automated taxonomies and on interesting solutions to problems like understanding and organizing web content, search ranking, entity extraction, disambiguation, synonyms etc. We are also deeply involved in understanding and presenting content generated by various social media sites.
We are all engineers who believe in solving real world problems and building large scale systems for millions of users and terabytes of data. We believe in new ideas and are closely involved with the product development teams.
We are leaders in web categorization and have a large impact on our product. We have a passion for impacting the experience of millions of consumers…and we have a lot of fun doing it!
The Opportunity:
• You will apply your strong combination of interest and experience in algorithms, consumer applications, and systems to analyze, design, build and evolve the core of Kosmix’s Categorization and Topic Engines
• You will be challenged to create and update semantic graphs using semi-structured and unstructured data, as well as develop innovative new applications on top of it
• You will invent new techniques to present the most relevant and timely information on any topic, and apply rigorous methods to measurably improve information relevance on an ongoing basis
• Design large scale production systems involving semi-structured and unstructured data.
• The position offers a breadth of challenges involving consumer product, algorithms and scalable systems engineering
• This is not just a classic algorithms position; it requires a passion for consumer experience, a willingness to go the last mile, and a desire to take on very new and sophisticated technical challenges
The Desired Skill-set:
• Programming wizardry in C/C++ and scripting (Perl, Python). Ruby On Rails/Java/HTML/Javascript a plus
• Strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies
• Strong algorithm background, awareness of time and space complexity
• Extensive Linux system and network programming experience
• Background in one or more of search relevance, machine learning, text mining a big plus
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field
• Most important, we want self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through their creations!
If you are interested in this opportunity, please follow the link below and submit your resume or if you have any questions, please email me at boris@kosmix.com. We will get back to you asap for consideration.
http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?m=nG2NFfwU&j=oLHiVfwp
Senior Algorithms Engineer/ Senior Statistician
Sunnyvale, CA
Efficient Frontier is a leading provider of cross channel performance optimization platform across search and display advertising. Efficient Frontier currently manages over $900 million in annual advertising spend for hundreds of top advertisers. Underpinning our service is a body of mathematical and computational algorithms developed by some of the brightest minds in this field. We employ these algorithmic techniques to identify advertisement opportunities for our clients, manage large online advertising campaigns, and maximize our customers return on advertising.
Efficient Frontier is looking for Senior Algorithms Engineer/ Senior Statistician with strong command of statistical modeling and machine learning concepts, along with experience in online advertising, to develop, and deploy large scale online ad targeting system.
Responsibilities
• Architect and implement ad targeting models that use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques
• Develop and implement algorithms that work with large scale data for forecasting and optimizing return on display advertising spend
• Build and deploy real time online ad targeting system that leverages these models and algorithms
Requirements
• Strong analytical quantitative and problem solving ability
• Must have solid understanding of statistical modeling/machine learning/ data mining/ recommender systems concepts demonstrated through work with real-world online advertising problems
• Strong preference for candidates with experience in building systems for ad networks, DSPs and ad-exchanges
• Experience with architecting, building and deploying reliable algorithms-based ad optimization systems that work at scale
• Demonstrated ability to model and deal with very large, sparse datasets
• Command of C/C++, Python, R and Unix/Linux
• Knowledge of databases and their structure (Oracle, Postgres or MySQL)
• Excellent communication and relationship skills and a strong team player
• MS/PhD in CS, EE, operations research, statistics, physics or math desirable
Efficient Frontier is an equal opportunity employer.
Please send your resume to jobs@efrontier.com. Efficient Frontier is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.
Software Engineer/ Algorithms Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA
Efficient Frontier is a leading provider of cross channel performance optimization platform across search and display advertising. Efficient Frontier currently manages over $900 million in annual advertising spend for hundreds of top advertisers. Underpinning our service is a body of mathematical and computational algorithms developed by some of the brightest minds in this field. We employ these algorithmic techniques to identify advertisement opportunities for our clients, manage large online advertising campaigns, and maximize our customers return on advertising.
Efficient Frontier is looking for Software Engineer/ Algorithms Engineer with knowledge of statistical modeling concepts to develop and deploy large-scale online ad targeting system.
Responsibilities
• Implement ad targeting models that use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques
• Develop and implement algorithms that work with large scale data for forecasting and optimizing return on display advertising spend
• Build and deploy real-time online ad bidding system that leverages these models and algorithms
Requirements
• Strong analytical quantitative and problem solving ability
• Must have solid understanding of statistical modeling/machine learning/ data mining/ recommender systems concepts
• Experience with architecting, building and deploying reliable algorithms-based ad optimization systems that work at scale is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with very large datasets
• Command of C/C++, Python, R and Unix/Linux
• Knowledge of databases and their structure (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL)
• Excellent communication and relationship skills and a strong team player
• MS/PhD in computer science, operations research, statistics, physics or math desirable
Efficient Frontier is an equal opportunity employer.
Please send your resume to jobs@efrontier.com. Efficient Frontier is headquartered in Sunnyvale CA.
Data Engineer (Analytics) @ Meebo (Perm in Mountain view, CA.)
Meebo is seeking an empirically-minded groundbreaker to join its ranks. We love instrumentation, A/B testing, and take delight in uncovering the unexpected. We’re seeking our next team member who will build a world-class product-oriented data system that will serve as the compass for nearly all strategic company decisions. This individual should have a deep desire to work with very large data sets to guide product decisions and to strengthen the end-user voice within Meebo.
In this role, your responsibilities will include:
* Design and deploy Meebo’s core product data analysis framework that includes A/B testing, real-time log processing, segmentation capabilities, and surfacing moving metrics to the most relevant teams
* Create tools, web interfaces, and visualizations to allow product teams and partners to access real-time usage statistics
* Instrument JavaScript and C/C++ codebase to collect usage behavior data
* Proactively recommend metrics for understanding product health and user satisfaction
* Collaborate with the Operations team to design and deploy Meebo’s next generation distributed data system
To be most effective, you will have:
* BS or MS in Computer Science with an emphasis in Information Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, or related field
* Expertise in MapReduce programming models such as Hadoop and other parallel computing implementations for processing and generating large data sets
* Scripting skills including HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Python, and SQL
* The product and business savvy mindset to pinpoint what metric matters most and the communication skills to convey those thoughts to others
You will be measured by your ability to:
Work with a diverse team to cultivate ideas, foster user-centric thinking, and positively influence product direction Listen deeply to team product and business issues and make data and research suggestions that will best inform strategic-thinking Build a world-class stats infrastructure that is accessible company-wide that will serve as the groundwork for all future stats projects at Meebo
If interested, please send resumes directly to Kiko@meebo-inc.com.
Thanks,
Kiko
Kiko@meebo-inc.com
Hiring for Senior Director or Risk Analytics at CashEdge
user 12294389
San Francisco, CA
Post #: 1
I spoke about this position at the last meet-up in Palo Alto. We are looking to hire at the Director level, to lead the analytics group and improve the modeling of fraud detection for online money transfers.
Here is the description of the position and a link to the website:
http://www.cashedge.c...
Senior Director of Risk Analytics & Policy
Job Description:
The Senior Director of Analytics & Risk Policy will be responsible for day-to-day management and supervision of risk management department. The position will be responsible for the risk management architecture as a business owner. The position also requires the incumbent to manage fraud losses to agreed upon plan.
The Director is required to monitor the quality of risk and fraud prevention controls; investigate new tools and techniques. The Director will also devise test and control strategies to evaluate for implementation competing risk mitigation strategies. Furthermore, this position works with Product Development, Client Integration and Engineering Development in the development on new funds transfer and payment services.
Responsibilities:
* Management and development of predictive models for the management of risk in funds transfer and payment services.
* Design, develop and implement sophisticated tools and reports to assess, manage, predict and prevent fraud and operational losses arising from funds transfer and payment activities.
* Maintain accuracy of key databases including development of performance databases.
* Evaluate and recommend external data sources for risk management.
* Perform ROI for various risk strategies.
* Lead and provide guidance to other staff in the development of loss prevention policy and processes.
* Prepare statistical reports to assess ACH activities, exceptions and monitor daily limits.
* Identify/recommend continued enhancements and efficiencies in the processes surrounding risk and payment processing.
* Respond to customers inquiries on matters relating to payment operations and risk mitigation.
* Presentation of risk policy to clients and internal stakeholders.
Qualifications Requirements:
* Ideally candidate should 7 – 10 years of experience in the development of policies for transaction risk management.
* Proven experience estimating and deploying linear models (factor analysis GLM) and classification trees (w/ boosting, bagging), familiarity with machine learning techniques (KNN, SVM, neural networks).
* Solid knowledge of SQL, SAS & R and Unix systems and scripting; prior experience coding in Java is desired but not required.
* Prior experience deploying models using XML/PMML or interfacing with online servers would be ideal but not required.
*Successful prior managerial experience and ability to motivate and develop staff is critical as the position oversees other staff members.
* Should be able to understand and summarize data mining methods and articles and present to non-technical audience.
* Must possess excellent written and oral communications skills, since the position interacts with clients.
Reports to:
Senior Vice President and Chief Risk & Payments Officer
Location:
Sunnyvale, California
Compensation:
Highly competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package commensurate with experience and qualifications
To Apply:
Please send Microsoft Word version of resume to Claudia Fuentes cfuentes@cashedge.com
CashEdge is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.
If you have questions or would simply like to get more information about career opportunities at CashEdge, please feel free to email us at cfuentes@cashedge.com
Technical Pre-Sales Engineer
Company:
KXEN provides next generation business analytics software to drive better corporate decisions for Customer analytics and Predictive Business Intelligence. KXEN’s unmatched speed, ease of use and scalability enable leading companies around the world to expand the use of predictive analytics and enhance corporate performance. Based on breakthrough mathematical theory, KXEN’s products offer reliable predictions and deep insight for achieving critical business goals. The company partners with leading systems integrators and software vendors to integrate advanced analytics into enterprise applications and business processes.
Responsibilities:
KXEN is looking for a Technical Presales Consultant to join our US operations. Based in San Francisco, you will be responsible for technical pre-sales support for the KXEN Sales team.
Technical Presales:
Be regarded by the client as a thought leader and advisor
Participate in sales conference calls and prospect visits.
Lead discussions discovering and defining customer requirements.
Conduct product demonstrations using prospect data
Tailor communications with clients to address their specific business needs
Develop proposals and project plans addressing how our technical team and KXEN technology can support the client’s specific business requirements
Work with Sales Personnel to provide product, business and technical knowledge in support of technical sales activities
Support Marketing
Liaison with Product Managers and Development to understand details of product direction and design and communicate information back to sales organization
Work with Product Management to develop and deliver training on business problems, products, and messages for new pre-Sales team members
Develop presentation proposals for speaking events at conferences
Give conference presentations and deliver webinars which pull together industry experience and product knowledge
Requirements:
5+years of work experience in software technical sales, pre-sales, or consulting, with 2+ years driving revenue in a presales role.
Experience with and comfort in discussing to role of analytics in customer lifecycle analytics and campaign management applications
Knowledge of data mining, machine learning, and pattern analysis techniques.
Knowledge of commercial data mining and statistics software.
Experience in RDBMS packages (Oracle, DB2, Teradata, MS-SQL, etc.)
Experience as a project leader or manager.
Able and willing to travel up to 50% of the time
Must work well independently and also as member of a team
The ideal candidate will also have:
The ability to break down and discuss complex subjects at a wide variety of levels – from CEOs to scientists, from marketing managers to IT managers.
Excellent communication skills (speaking and written).
The judgment and balance to manage several tasks simultaneously.
The desire to work in a fast-paced, small software company.
A graduate degree in a social science, statistics, or computer science
A passion for creatively solving ill-defined and difficult problems.
Experience with Perl, C++, Java, & VB
Experience with a commercial software engineering lifecycle (MRDs, PRDs, functional specifications, etc.)
Contact:
Laura Squier, Laura.Squier@kxen.com
From Advanced Decisions (Shelton, CT)
A client of ours in Connecticut – a nimble, progressive and exciting company – is seeking a Software Developer for a contract position in southern Connecticut. This individual will be responsible for key modules of the production software throughout the development cycle, ranging from specifying functional requirements by working with multi-disciplinary teams, providing detailed design specifications, outlining testing effort, to implementing the software and executing the testing steps to qualify the product, etc.
The engineer will work closely with the team leader, the project management and other developers to create robust software that offers advanced architecture and fulfills the business needs. We are seeking someone with a Bachelors Degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
We are seeking someone with three – to five years of overall software engineering experience focused on embedded system programming . . .
Candidates must have excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, excellent communication skills, a minimum of three years of C/C++ programming experiences with an emphasis on embedded system programming, a minimum of three years of Unix programming experiences – preferably on Solaris or Linux, experience or proven ability in technical specifications, experience or proven ability in designing complex software architecture, experience in Python and Clearcase – are pluses.
If this position is of interest and closely aligned with your background / experience, please email me your resume at your earliest possible convenience.
If the position isn’t of interest to you professionally, but you can suggest others with whom I might network, I would really appreciate that.
Thanks.
Karla
Karla Hammond
860-267-2690
karlahammond@sbcglobal.net
YuMe (www.yume.com)is hiring and has various openings in our Redwood City, CA office. Current positions include (but are not limited to):
Architect – Data Analytics
Senior Algorithms Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Senior User Interface Architect
Yume is a video advertising technology company that makes it easy for publishers to make money from their video content and for advertisers to reach audiences in a powerful way. Our clients are adverstisers (such as AT&T, JetBlue, and FedEx) and publishers (including MSN, Fox News, IDG Entertainment and MTV Networks). YuMe was recently chosen as a winner of the TiE50 Award. TiE50 Winners represent the most enterprising companies worldwide in five sectors that are driving today’s economy: Internet, Software, Wireless, Cleantech, and BioSciences. Selected from among nearly 4,000 nominees, and after almost 100,000 votes, YuMe was chosen as a winner in the Internet sector.
YuMe is a privately held company headquartered in Redwood City, CA and backed by Accel Partners, BV Capital, DAG Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Menlo Ventures. This is a rare opportunity to be part of an organization that is shaping the future of digital media!
For a full list of our current openings, please visit our website:
http://www.yume.com/about/careers.php
I am building a data mining team for my group at CashEdge
http://www.cashedge.com/careers/company-careers-ca-100726.php
Risk Forecasting Analyst
Job Description:
The Risk Management group is responsible for policies to control risks associated with daily ACH/EFT Internet transactions. The group also provides consulting assistance to client financial institutions in establishing and monitoring their own risk criteria. The Risk Forecasting Analyst will be responsible for providing data mining support on risk management initiatives.
Responsibilities:
* Extracting data and manipulating databases in developing analytical models for fraud detection and quantitative risk assessment.
* Building and monitoring the effectiveness of risk models, assessing their adequacy for different portfolio segments and clients, and determining when model modification/redevelopment is necessary.
* Investigating new data sources and analyzing predictive variables.
* Helping design, implement, and test new risk management strategies to optimize profitability while controlling risks.
* Participating in the design and development of new products/services, especially in regards to identifying and quantifying associated risks.
Qualifications Requirements:
* Demonstrated experience in risk management of 5 years in payment or funds transfer operations. Must have fraud risk policy and model development experience. Credit card experience is acceptable.
* Candidate should ideally possess 3-5 years of experience in the development of risk management policies / models / data mining for transaction risk management and resulting investigations.
* Fluent in SAS (Base, Stat, Macros) and SQL. Experienced in putting models in production or working with others to run your production models.
* Candidate must possess excellent written and oral communications skills; ability to work with other members of the team, strong interpersonal and communication skills to a non-technical audience. Are you a “geek that can speak?”
* The successful candidate will be analytical, organized, dependable, self-motivated, and able to work with minimal supervision.
* Applicant must be results oriented; shown proven leadership; and Must have ability to multi-task and handle deadlines.
* Proficiency in MS Office Applications
* Masters or advanced degree preferred (Statistics, Econometrics, Computer Science, Management Science / Operations Research), although more years of relevant experience, patents or publications can demonstrate maturity of experience.
Qualification Pluses:
Helpful experience can include some of:
* Experience with data mining algorithms (decision trees, SVM, clustering, fuzzy rules, Bayesian networks, boosting, bagging, L1 regularization, a-priori/AR, outlier detection…)
* Oracle PL/SQL
* Java
* R
* Internet advertising models (or experience on other problems of a low target rate, non-stationary, changing nature).
Reports to:
Director, Risk Policy and Analytics
Location:
Sunnyvale, California
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience.
To Apply:
Please send Microsoft Word version of resume to USAcareers@cashedge.com
CashEdge is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.
If you have questions or would simply like to get more information about career opportunities at CashEdge, please feel free to email us at USAcareers@cashedge.com.
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To apply, please include a cover letter addressing the qualifications. Any relevant past case studies in the form of a Problem-Solution-Result (PSR) would be helpful.
For info on my background, see
http://www.LinkedIn.comm/in/GregMakowski
TO COMPANIES THAT ARE HIRING:
The next ACM Data Mining Camp will be on Sat, Nov 13, at eBay – the same place as last time.
We are considering setting up a recruiting area, to post job openings, and to have tables for company representatives to meet with prospective employees.
I am currently recruiting sponsors for either the event, or annual corporate sponsors for the SF Bay ACM. Let us know how our non-profit group can be of service to the computing community.