Core Technology Scientist
Position Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Singapore or Boston, MA
To apply, send your resume and cover letter to careers@scanscout.com.
Key responsibilities
You'll be part of a world-class team of scientists collecting and making sense of massive amounts of data to improve user experiences of ad supported media. Your work will be a critical component of a platform that leverages data to deliver the right branding experience to the right user at the right time. If you have the relevant experience, and you are truly excited by the idea of applying your research experience to build innovative commercial applications, this job is for you. You will:
- Develop innovative ways to create and optimize data sets and nodes for statistical classifiers
- Configure, run, and iterate on experiments to optimize performance
- Develop global and individual models of user behavior
- Work closely with algorithm team to improve core algorithms
- MS or PhD in Computer Science/Mathematics/Statistics, 3+ year experience
- Expertise in at least one of the following
- statistical modeling (GMM, SVM, etc)
- statistical natural language processing (LDA, LSI, etc)
- signal processing (audio and/or visual)
- machine learning
- data mining
- Experience building/optimizing data sets and nodes for building statistical classifers
- Experience with crawlers
- Research track record that demonstrates strong experimental technique
- Proficient in Unix, Perl, and Java
- Self-motivated to meet aggressive goals, to solve problems, and to make an impact
- Excellent communication skills
- Working knowledge of J2EE technologies and a RDBM (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
- Start-up experience