Director of Research Engineering

Location, location, location!

At Fwix, we are developing a system to find, organize and analyze online content about physical places. We geotag the web - we are working to automatically identify physical locations referenced in online content. Our solution utilizesour geotagging to create a location graph powering our analytics engine allowing us to create products that offer views into everything from location aware streams of content to local business insights.

We have a constantly growing system that needs to be real time and scalable, while slicing and dicing data in ad-hoc ways. You'll help us figure out how to do that. Our system is python, with some java and C/C++ thrown in. We use MySQL, gearman, membase, memcache, mongodb, sphinx, elastic search - we've used redis, rethinkdb, cassandra, we are thinking about using rabbitmq and hadoop. And we are building a data mart of information across the 50 million points of interest in our database.

Our large data and cloud system form the center of our geotagging technology - determining the physical locations in or referenced by a piece of content - and the relational graph behind our ever growing stream of data.

We are looking for someone who can apply rigourous methods to pull apart a problem, organize and identify issues, measure results, and come up with creative solutions to solve them. You will discover new ways to process our data, and derive insights that will drive our products. Above all you will have a passion for applying your ideas and techniques into actual products, and you'll want to be in the trenches developing and coding along side your team.

Our problems range from NLP issues (entity extraction, summarization, search, sorting) to being solved with machine learning (training data, models, local features, genetic algorithms). You'll be given a datastore of hundreds of millions of pieces of content to work with, and you'll be tasked at using your ingenuity to create ways to structure unstructured data and pull out relevant and related information to our 50 million+ place database - and then bring it to life in Fwix's platform.

Fwix is a well funded startup, and we provide benefits, competitive salaries and equity. We are located in downtown San Francisco in SOMA, always have 2 beers on tap in our office, free ping pong :), and a group of extremely smart and talented engineers. If you are looking for you next big challenge, contact us!

The ideal candidate has:

• PhD or 4+ years experience in a related area
• solid understanding and demonstrability of algorithms and datastructures
• background in ML/NLP/Algorithms
• ability to create measurable process
• disambiguation techniques and entity linking background a plus
• knowledgebases
• search background a plus
• experience in one of Python/Java/C/C++
• solid programmer
• large scale systems background a plus
• database experience a plus (MySQL, PostGres, NoSQL)
• experience with functional/unit testing a plus
• top notch analytical skills
• independent thinker
• previous startup experience a plus

About Fwix:
Fwix is a well funded, venture backed start-up founded in 2008. We are a small team of 20 people located in South of Market in San Francisco.