Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist Job Posting

Job Title:	Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist
Company:	iConvergence Solutions LLC
Position Type:	Contract
Pay Rate:	Negotiable
Date Posted:	Sep-07-09

Role:Principal Engineer / Applied Scientist
Duration: 6 months

Client is building a new team focused on using machine learning for merchandising and targeting with an initial charter to build a personalized merchandising system with near real-time feedback. If you are excited about building machine learning systems that serve a huge web audiences and advanced data mining solutions on petabytes of data -- then this role is for you!

About the Opportunity

This is a hands-on position with algorithm development and tuning responsibility for on line machine learning systems. The ideal candidate will be either a strong engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop machine learning algorithms and solutions.

• Design, train and deploy machine learning based models.

• Build, enhance and maintain various software components of the machine learning platform.

• Learn / understand marketing business problems and design creative and scalable solutions.

• Analyze large datasets -- built from Petabyte scale data -- to tune the models and algorithms for relevancy and targeting.

Skills

Requirements

• Experienced engineer with machine learning experience or a scientist with hands-on programming experience.

• Machine learning / information retrieval / large data mining /Text mining experience.

• Understanding of statistics, Bayesian probability.

• Expert level programming skills with one scripting language like Perl / Python.

• Strong programming skills specifically working with C/C++ or Java. Experience with large databases / files and in memory data structures.

• Large dataset experience preferably working with complex enterprise / web datasets.

Basic Qualifications

• BS / MS in computer science or related field and 7 to 10 years of related programming experience or PhD in computer science with 3 to 5 years of hands on programming experience.

• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications in a 'large data' environment is a must.

Location:	US-CA-San Jose
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Neeraj
Contact Phone:	425-956-3446
Contact Email:	425-956-3446
URL:	http://www.iconvergencesolutions.com