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Company Description
Conductor is an emerging leader in natural search solutions, helping organizations manage information for greater search engine visibility developing Conductor's analytics platform is centered on providing a clear insight into the science of search, tracking, reporting, ROI analysis, recommendations and predictions of natural search efforts. Conductor's link building community includes Fortune 500 companies, some of the world's most prestigious publications, and serves many of the leading search engine optimization agencies.

Based in Chelsea, Manhattan, the company was founded in 2005, and has rapidly been growing to become one of the fastest growing companies in New York. In 2008, the company has been selected as an AlwaysOn OnMedia 100 Winner, as a category winner of the Global250, and included in Silicon Alley Insider's 'World's Most Valuable Digital Startups.�

Position Overview
Conductor's Research & Development group is seeking results-oriented Researchers/Engineers at all levels who want to solve real problems and have a direct business impact. This individual enjoys formulating problems based on customer needs, selecting, modifying and/or building appropriate tools or methodologies, and providing true end-to-end solutions for diversified challenging research and development projects. The individual would own and develop state of the art machine learning algorithms for conductor's Search analytics platform.

We encourage our team members to stay abreast of novel academic work and seek patents when appropriate. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your research and development skills in machine learning to large amounts of data which Conductor collects every day. As a member of our R&D team, you will invent and improve technology that shapes the next generation search analytics products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Play a critical role in the group as a creative research scientist/engineer working to solve complex algorithmic and machine learning problems.
• Architect and build machine learning components, systems, and applications
• Directly design and implement production quality code for critical Search analytics components
• Be able to see a project through the entire software engineering cycle, from the design stage to the finished product

• M.S. in Computer Science or related field. PHD a plus but not required
• C/C++/Java programming experience/knowledge
• Hands on skills in coding, integration and implementing large scale systems
• Strong algorithmic problem solving skills
• Good understanding of Unix-like systems (FreeBSD, Linux)
• Experience with large datasets and/or scalable systems
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Education or experience in one or many of the following scientific areas: data mining, information retrieval, search engines, machine learning, statistics, probability theory, scientific computing

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