Akanoo: Sr. Software Engineer – Data Mining Scientist

Company: Akanoo
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Web: www.akanoo.com


Are you filled with ambition and ideas? You're looking to explore a dynamic, young business, work alongside bright minds and overcome new challenges every day? Akanoo is the place for you.

What you get to do:

• Explore millions of records, research and develop predictive models and optimize algorithms for behavioral on-site targeting
• Implement these models and algorithms, leveraging cluster computing
• Work with our Account Management and Sales teams to understand client goals, and work with Engineering team to turn research into products
• Opportunity to work in a uniquely high-scale business with millions of targeting opportunities a day to score for response prediction
• Ability to be a factor in a business where for a data scientist a 10% algorithm improvement can mean 10% incremental revenues

 
What you bring to the role:

• MSc minimum / Ph.D. desired in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations research or related fields and 1+ years experience in data mining and machine learning on large amounts of data
• Strong candidates with a BSc and relevant work experience are also welcome
• Understanding of targeting and personalization
• Background in Data Mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis with a minimum of 2 relevant projects in same
• Passion for large-scale data analysis and a talent for identifying key insights from data
• Hands-on experience with Machine Learning techniques, such as logistic regression, sequential pattern mining, clustering and decision trees
• Structured thinker that can articulate thoughts clearly, both written and orally
• Proficient software development and programming skills using Java and or Groovy/Scala and scripting languages

 
We hope to fill a full time position at a competitive salary starting immediately.

_Contact_:
Send your application to hi@akanoo.com