Scientific Engineer

Company: Struq
Location: Soho, London, UK
Web: www.struq.com

Struq is leading the revolution in Personalised Retargeting - personalising ads to increase the relevance of ads to users and deliver unrivalled performance to advertisers.

We are actively seeking a scientific engineer, someone with a passion for analysing vast amounts of data, finding hidden patterns and relationships, and implementing scalable machine learning and statistical algorithms to improve upon our value-to-user and value-to-client. This is an ideal role for someone with both the experience and desire to blend research-grade analytics with Internet-scale engineering.

Job Functions:
Analyze large amounts of transactional and behavioural data, using data mining and machine learning techniques, to uncover new business opportunities and build products to address them.

• Apply probabilistic, machine learning and data mining techniques to build models to improve targeting and revenue
• Work closely with colleagues on the engineering team to put your research results into action
• Dive deeply into the data to understand and apply patterns while maintaining a sense of the big picture
• Understand business strategy and translate theoretical and experimental results into usable, scalable applications Requirements:
• Demonstrated ability to independently design / develop and test large and complex applications.
• PhD in computer science, statistics, mathematics, data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence or equivalent.
• Superior understanding of algorithms & data structures relevant to machine learning at large scale
• Expertise and hands on experience in using machine learning /data mining techniques - decision trees, SVMs, neural networks, ensemble methods, clustering, matrix factorization for recommendation systems, etc. - on large data sets

• Broad and current knowledge in machine learning / statistics (beyond logistic regression :)
• Hands-on programming experience with languages such as C/C++, C#, Java or Python
• Experienced software / research / data engineer with expert-level database and distributed systems skills (SQL, data modelling, Hadoop, MapReduce).
• Large dataset experience, preferably working with complex enterprise / web logs datasets
• Practical knowledge of Internet Marketing and Advertising optimization systems is a big plus
• Experience with large-scale data mining, machine learning, optimisation algorithms or predictive modelling in industry/production.
• Past experience in one of the following areas - Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Text Analysis or Machine Learning. Fit:
• Desire to be a strong contributor and a vital part of a rapidly expanding team and company.
• UK and EU residents

• Struq works with leading brands and advertisers such as John Lewis, Swiftcover, WeBuyAnyCar and many more.
• Struq is a Finalist for Brand Innovator of the Year at the Marketing Week Engage Awards
• Struq is a Smarta 100 winner - The top 100 most exciting and disruptive new business
• Struq is a Top 100 Media Tech Company as voted for by The Guardian, PWC, Microsoft and Europe Unlimited

_Contact_:
jos.barnett@struq.com our Operations Director for more information or to apply for the role