Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Machine Learning Jobs

Various JOb posting for ML , this gives an Idea what companies are looking for in ML .


Hunch ML:  - ebay bought Hunch for this one.
StumbledUpon Info graph  , Info graph company

good Hadoop info. on Web:
Future of Hadoop - Deck

Software Engineer, Machine LearningPalo Alto, CA (Facebook )

Facebook is seeking a machine learning engineer to join our engineering team in Palo Alto, CA. The ideal candidate will have industry experience working on a range of classification and optimization problems, e.g. payment fraud, click-through rate prediction, click-fraud detection, search ranking, text/sentiment classification, collaborative filtering/recommendation, or spam detection. The position will involve taking these skills and applying them to some of the most exciting and massive social data and prediction problems that exist on the web.

Responsibilities

  • Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules based models
  • Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create effective feature roadmap
  • Code deliverables in tandem with the engineering team
  • Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)

Requirements

  • B.S. Computer Science. M.S. or Ph.D. a plus
  • A minimum of 5 or more years experience in one or more of the following areas: Fraud prevention engineering, machine learning, large-scale data mining for analytics.
  • Proven ability to translate insights into business recommendations
  • Experience with Hadoop/Hbase/Pig or Mapreduce/Sawzall/Bigtable a plus
  • Expert knowledge developing and debugging in C/C++ and Java on *nix
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Perl, Python, PHP, and shell scripts
  • Experience with filesystems, server architectures, and distributed systems

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    Sr. Machine Learning Engineer  (Akraya consulting )

    Category : Sr. Engineer
    Location/City : CA - San Jose


    Position Title: Senior Machine Learning Engineer  

    Job Type: Full Time

    Job Location: San Jose, CA



    Primary Skills:

    • Primary Responsibilities:
    • Developing algorithms to match offers to products
    • Taxonomy discovery
    • Improving classification precision
    • Developing recommendation algorithms
    • Identifying and extracting features for various ML tasks
    • Data mining
    • Research and implementation of cutting edge ML and NLP algorithms

    Qualifications:

    • Candidates should have a strong sense of good software engineering techniques and preferably be able to code in Python.  A proven ability to parallelize your code as evidenced by an open source or other public project would also be a plus.
    Skills in the following areas are desirable:
    • Postgres/pgsql
    • Python
    • OOP
    • Python web frameworks
    • Web user interfaces
    Education Background:
    • Bachelors /Master's degree in Engineering/Machine learning/Researces


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