Scientific Engineer

Company: Rocket Fuel Inc.
Location: Redwood Shores, CA
Web: www.rocketfuelinc.com

Rocket Scientist - Scientific Engineer

Rocket Fuel Inc operates an ad network based on rocket science -- high-performance algorithms and reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. We are hiring scientific engineers who can implement scalable machine learning algorithms on terabytes of data and billions of rows to discover correlations and patterns that become a part of our ad server.

This is a hands-on role perfect for someone who is truly both a scientist and an engineer, and wants to be able to tell their parents that they write code that makes banner ads more relevant and less annoying for web surfers, and more effective for advertisers like BMW, Skype, and Disney.

Job Functions:

• Scientifically analyze campaign performance data, hypothesize factors that correlate with our success, and test
• Engineer new features for our automated modeling based on these results
• Conduct experiments to validate superiority of new approaches versus benchmarks
• Implement selected machine learning or optimization algorithms in production, using streaming & Hadoop computing infrastruture
• Implement in a metadata-driven, configurable, automatable fashion so you can take vacations :)
• Create & maintain back-testing and online testing and monitoring frameworks

• MS or Ph.D. in CS (with emphasis in data mining/ machine learning/ artificial intelligence/ mathematics / stastics)
• 3+ years industry experience analyzing online ad response data
• Structured thinker, effective communicator
• Excellent programming skills & experience with (Java or C) and (Ruby or Python)
• Superior understanding of algorithms & data structures relevant to machine learning at large scale

• Broad and current knowledge in machine learning / statistics (beyond logistic regression :)
• Experience in online recommendation systems
• Experience with map-reduce frameworks such as Hadoop
• Experience with cloud computing such as Amazon's EC2
• KDD-CUP or Netflix participation

Rocket Fuel ignited in May 2008 with a significant series A financing led by a top-tier venture capital firm. Our founding team members have been through three IPO's and helped create companies worth billions of dollars. We're now working together to disrupt online advertising, an industry with global revenues of $80 Billion in three years. Rocket Fuel has run campaigns for an amazingly large number of top brands who trust us to deliver effective results with our optimization technology. Our CEO was a machine learning researcher once upon a time, so this is a company where you'll never get frustrated at management's inability to see the value in advanced technology.

We're still small (under 50 people) so this is an opportunity to come in, excel, and grow with the company.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Principals only.

_Contact_:
If interested, you are welcome to contact: Mark Torrance
CTO, Rocket Fuel Inc. torrance@rocketfuelinc.com

and we'd appreciate it if you could also submit your resume at

rocketfuelinc.com/submit_resume.html