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Jobs

From: NP
Date: 26 Oct 2009
Subject: Sunnyvale, CA: Statistics Engineer at Efficient Frontier

Efficient Frontier (www.efrontier.com), a leading SEM solution provider, is looking for a statistics engineer to maintain and enhance models and algorithms in Sunnyvale, CA, office.

Responsibilities

  • Enhancement of currently defined models and heuristic applications
  • Development of customized models
  • Programming predictive modeling algorithms
  • Assessing the statistical significance of performance differences between models; e.g. hypothesis testing to compare a model with new features to an already deployed model.
Requirements
  • Master's degree (Ph.D. preferred) in quantitative discipline: statistics, econometrics, applied math, computer science, machine learning
  • Comprehensive understanding of some of the following quantitative methods: multivariate regression, classification, cluster analysis, simultaneous equation models, decision trees, hypothesis testing, neural nets, SVM, time series, outlier identification, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms, Monte Carlo simulations etc.
  • Proficiency in R/ SAS/ SPSS and SQL
  • Experience with large data sets
  • Exposure to operations research/ linear and non-linear optimization concepts is a plus
Efficient Frontier is an equal opportunity employer.

_Contact_:
Please e-mail your resume to: jobs@efrontier.com.


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