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Job ID: BE235146

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining / Quantitative Analyst

Salary: $110-130k

Location: Southern California

Job Description:

Our client is seeking a highly intelligent, innovative, quantitative and technically savvy individual to analyze process complex data sets related to online advertising marketplace.

• Are you a pioneer looking to apply your skills to an emerging market?
• Are you innovative, driven and enjoy scouring data and a market to come up with better ways of doing things?
• Do you have intermediate to advanced programming skills in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)?
• Do you have experience working with extremely large data sets exceeding 1 TB?
• Do you have an engineering mentality, i.e. knack for figuring out what went wrong by taking apart and then putting back together again?
• Do you enjoy working with end results oriented team that likes to win?

If you said “yes” to all the above and you have a passion for the Internet industry, this may be the position you have been seeking.

Responsibilities:

• will assist in the success of our client
• will gather, understand and maintain Internet online advertising data
• will deliver insights based on underlying trends in the data to improve efficiency of our client’s strategies
• will ensure collected data is accurate and rapidly accessible
• will apply economic principles to datasets to develop and model media buying and selling strategies
• will optimize data collection process to scale to larger data sets
• will collaborate with others to test and refine strategies based on the data sets

Qualifications:

• must have a BS degree required or MS preferred in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, or applied math with an exceptional GPA
• must have 3 years professional programming experience in at least one high level language (Perl, Python, Java, Ruby or shell scripting)
• must have experience with Linux and related tools
• must have work experience manipulating large scale datasets via flat files and common database skills
• must have ability to apply a pragmatic financial or business outlook to daily work and long-term plans
• should have experience using statistical modeling packages such as SAS and interest to test emerging tools such as HADOOP
• should have experience in financial services or investment management, asset management, risk management • should have experience with machine learning algorithms
• must be highly intelligent, motivated, innovative, with ability to accept and give very direct constructive criticism for improvement in an ego-less manner
• must have high energy with strong work ethic and commitment, ability to operate with tight deadlines in a startup environment

Company Culture:

• One of the largest distributed media networks on the Internet
• Products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs
• Located in Southern California
• Mid-stage startup, launched in 2006

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