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Join the Leader in Computational Performance Marketing

Founded in 2004, Adchemy is a next-generation online marketing startup. We are focused on delivering superior results to our pay-for-performance customers through a proprietary platform that integrates highly scientific, algorithmic approaches from various disciplines, including statistical machine learning, combinatorial optimization, information retrieval, and experimental design. We call our overall approach Computational Performance Marketing, and, to date, we have achieved profitability within 4 months of launch and grown revenues by 60% month over month.

We are backed by August Capital, a top-tier VC firm whose track record includes Microsoft and Intuit. Our early investors included Rajeev Motwani, a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University who was the co-author of the PageRank paper that led to the founding of Google. The management team consists of veterans of several online advertising, marketing, and search giants such as Shopping.com, Advertising.com, and Yahoo!. The research team includes several Ph.Ds and faculty members from leading universities such as Stanford and Cornell. We are currently located in the heart of downtown Palo Alto, CA, but will be moving to an expanded location in Redwood Shores, CA, at the end of August.

We are looking for a high-powered scientist/researcher to join our core research team and play a critical role in enhancing and building out our technology platform. The ideal candidate is a smart, productive self-starter who has had startup experience and understands the demands of creating, developing and implementing algorithmic solutions in a startup environment. He or she has the ability to learn new systems quickly, the persistence to retrieve data from a variety of sources to inform analyses, is able to work independently with minimal supervision, and has the enthusiasm and eagerness to contribute to a positive work environment.

Title: Research Scientist

Required qualifications/education:

1. Minimum 3 years of industry experience, ideally in a consumer internet or online advertising related setting

2. Experience in areas such as experimental design, statistical modeling, data mining, optimization, natural language processing, analysis of very large data sets

3. Experience with statistical modeling techniques such as logistic regression, decision trees, neural networks or other pattern recognition, machine learning statistical/mathematical modeling algorithms or techniques

4. Experience with statistical software packages (R, S-Plus, Matlab, SAS or similar)

5. Strong communication and collaboration skills

6. MS or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Econometrics, or related field (PhD preferred)

Experience in one or more of the following areas are plusses:

1. Search engines and information retrieval
2. Java and/or C/C++
3. Scripting languages such as Perl, Python and PHP
4. Design and use of databases
5. Intermediate to advanced skills in Excel
6. Start-ups

Contact:
Richard Chatwin, richard@adchemy.com