Hi There! I would like to get the word out about a Sr Machine Learning Scientist position with a successful, small company. We are scheduling interviews now and I would love to talk any interested scientists Lisa Wood: lisa at stafftopia dot com OR 208 788 3064

We are looking for a PhD who has experience in machine learning and data mining within very large data environments. We are looking for someone who also has experience who has experience with Java development and any experience with large data frameworks loke hadoop, mapreduce, pig, hive, etc is a great plus. This is an incredible opportunity to join a company that is still small but one that has achieved fantastic traction. Please see the description below and let me know when we can discuss this in greater detail. The Director is ready to interview strong candidates now so please let me know if you are open to hearing more. Also, I am offering a $1000 referral fee for successful referrals...please keep this in mind if you happen to know someone as well.

We are a fast growing, well funded internet startup, currently developing the largest data exchange in the advertising world, focused on identifying consumer intent. Our executive team is comprised of well seasoned veterans of companies like Revenue Science, Right Media and Yahoo.

We created the first online data exchange designed with consumer transparency and control in mind. By aggregating valuable shopping and research activities across the Internet, we are building the world's largest marketplace for intent. Unlike ad networks, we do not sell ads or impressions, it simply provides data on-demand for marketers, ad networks or publishers to boost the quality and scale of ad targeting initiatives. We have already achieved scale with over 400 MM unique per month and ~600MM interactions per day, as well as a large client and partner base. We are looking for an amazing scientist to join the Analytics team and help us bring additional focus to data quality as well as data-driven products, analysis, and insights.

Qualifications:
* Incredible critical thinking and creative problem solving skills

* Applied machine learning, data mining, optimization experience

* Algorithms as second nature, mathematical thinking, and applied statistics

* Experience in analyzing and modeling very large datasets

* Excellent communication skills

* A plus: experience with cloud computing, map reduce, hadoop, pig, ec2

* Strong engineering skills and strong coding skills (java, python, sql etc)

* Focused, well-organized, articulate and possessing a superb work ethic.

* Ph.D. degree in Machine Learning

The position has the following responsibilities:
* Analyze and model tens to hundreds of terabytes of data at a time

* Assess, quantify, and improve data quality on the our Exchange

* Design and implement scalable intelligent algorithms for analytics products

* Translate business needs into metric design and implementation, data modeling, product and reporting analytics

* Build and optimize data processing tools that allow robust and efficient * access to data for on-demand analysis

* Productize research and analytics components

To the right candidate, our company provides many advantages:
* a small, highly proficient and motivated team

* a data-centric business that is very amenable to scaling optimization

* a rich problem space with opportunities for designing and implementing data mining and machine learning algorithms in a massively parallel environment

This is an immediate hiring need.