Research Scientist

Company: OpenX
Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
Web: www.openx.org

Description:
The research team is responsible for investigating, designing, prototyping, and reviewing analytic solutions in support of OpenX's Ad Server, Market, and other offerings. This charter covers a wide range of challenging technical problems including revenue optimization, forecasting and scheduling, behavioral classification, and fraud detection. We strive for state-of-the-art solutions, which may be assimilated from any field including: structured and unstructured data mining; game theory; numerical optimization; signal processing; statistics; and economics.

The research scientist will be responsible for one or more analytical assignments within a supportive environment. The position will require close collaboration with product management, data management, and software development teams to build end-to-end solutions for deployment. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with strong problem solving skills, a solid data mining background and a willingness to learn new technologies, who can apply these skills and knowledge creatively to devise practical solutions to the problems at hand. Strong written and oral communication skills are a plus.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics)
• Solid UNIX/Linux background
• Experience with one or more statistical software packages (R, SAS, SPSS, etc.)
• Hands-on experience working with large datasets and/or high speed data streams, containing millions or more high-dimensional records
• Demonstrated success in solving real-world analytical problems: predictive model development, numerical optimization, pattern recognition, etc.

• Industry knowledge, specifically within the online display advertising space
• Experience with SQL, Hive
• Proficient in Perl, Python, C/C++, or Java
• Track record of innovation or research

About OpenX:
OpenX's purpose is to help businesses worldwide grow by providing compelling, open online advertising products and services that drive revenue. OpenX operates at the intersection of advertising technology, advertising business model innovation and open-source communities.

Today OpenX's primary product is the world's leading open-source ad server, which is used by over 30,000 publishers on more than 100,000 web sites in order to configure ad space, manage and optimize ad inventory and serve ads. More than 200 billion ad impressions run through OpenX's software every month. OpenX is used by web sites in over 100 countries and has been translated by its community of users into over 20 languages. OpenX is rapidly building out a world-class team to build and execute a compelling, differentiated commercial strategy on top of OpenX's significant existing asset base.

OpenX is led by CEO Tim Cadogan (former SVP Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! and early core team member at GoTo/Overture) and Chairman Jon Miller (former CEO and Chairman of AOL, now CEO of Digital Media at News Corp). OpenX is backed by Accel Partners, Index and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures among others.

OpenX is headquartered in Pasadena, CA with offices in London, New York and Poznan (Poland).