Technical Lead Big Data, H1B Visa, San Francisco, CA

Our client is looking for a Technical Lead to manage development of and assist in the design of Big Data and Information Processing systems. These systems involve information extraction, machine learning and natural language processing. You will act as a facilitator to both our experienced engineers and our Product Development team - managing the design, development, and delivery of our intelligent systems. You will be critical in turning our ambitious product roadmap into a reality and will be an innovative, motivated, communicative, and driven leader who thrives in a team environment. You will be involved with: Next-stage knowledge systems and technologies using emerging techniques. Solving some of the most interesting problems in “Big Data”. A very energetic, dynamic, and talented team. We will provide immigration sponsorship for qualified applicants. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Work closely with our VP of Data Science to refine high-level functional requirements into manageable implementation level tasks. Assist in research and design of next-stage Big Data systems. Help our team of experienced and talented engineers manage and execute on an ambitious product roadmap with many moving parts. Be an “expert” resource on a number of the many next-stages technologies being used by the team. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES Success in this role will depend greatly on: Strong knowledge of, and experience in, Java development in a server-side environment. Experience with, or at a minimum strong interest in, modern information extraction, categorization and inferencing systems. NLP, machine learning, data mining knowledge a plus. Strong desire to learn. Strong team management abilities. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE BS, MS in Computer Science or related technical field. Minimum of seven years of experience in Java development. Minimum three years of experience in a technical lead role. Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Speech Scientist, Boston, MA or San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA

Big Data Careers is currently looking for experienced speech scientists for one of our customers. Our client is the largest e-retailer company in the world. Candidates will provide analysis using a variety of modeling tools to improve speech recognition. The position requires at least a Master in CS or engineering or statistic or math or linguistics. A PhD is preferred. Further candidates must posses excellent object orientated software engineering skills in Java or C++ and scripting skills in Python or Perl. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: Seattle Washington, United States

NLP Lead, San Francisco,CA

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an NLP Lead, for one of our clients in the Bay Area. Our client is creating a consumer faced mobile healthcare company. This is a salaried position with substantial early-stage equity. They have a founding team with a successful startup track record and have a path to be on millions of consumer smartphones and tablets next year. Critical components of the platform are natural language-based, and your role will be to architect and prototype those components as part of a superb small team. This role will have great visibility and you will have access to the CEO, Board of Directors, and Investors. As a key member of a small team, you will: · create value as part of the team by bringing NLP expertise; Machine Learning; document parsing; machine translation; and related techniques to the product · evaluate technology options and recommend solutions. · participate in product architecture, design, prototyping and vision evolution. To be successful, you will have most of the following: · High energy level as appropriate for a small company planning to make a big impact on the industry. · Prior experience developing commercial products · Strong and obvious interest in one or more of the following: • Natural Language Processing • Information Retrieval • Machine Learning • Machine Translation • Document Parsing • Information Extraction • Voice Recognition · Solid competence in at least one of the following: • Python or PHP • C++ • Java • Degree in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: San Francisco California, United States

R&D Machine Learning Developer, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities: Design and implementation of state-of-the-art machine learning methods, including new/custom methods, drawing from all techniques of machine learning and statistics, as well as algorithms/data structures, optimization, linear algebra, computational geometry, graph theory, discrete mathematics, and parallel algorithms/data structures. Desired skills & experience: PhD or equivalent experience in machine learning, statistics, or other mathematical fields including computer science, pure or applied mathematics, electrical engineering, theoretical or applied physics, etc. Expert/research-level experience in designing, implementing, and deploying statistical/machine learning and computational methods, as demonstrated by publications in premier research conferences/journals and/or high-impact machine learning applications. Expert background in C/C++ and code development in Linux. Strong candidates will also have experience in the following: Experience in mid-sized coding projects with multiple developers and a set release schedule, using techniques/tools for bug tracking, code reviews, smoke testing, unit testing, and version control. High-performance computing, GPGPUs, and code optimizations. Experience in any of the following is desirable but optional: Other languages such as Java, Python, etc. Proficiency with data analysis platforms such as Matlab, R, etc. and real-world data analysis. Databases, ETL, OLAP, and data warehousing platforms such as TeraData, Oracle, Netezza, SAP, SAS, etc. Other big data and distributed computing models.

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Multi-modal Natural Dialog Engineer, Italian Language

Big Data Careers is currently looking for a Natural Language Understanding Engineer in the Italian language. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will be part of the team that will develop state-of-the-art multi-modal natural dialog system for mobile platforms (smartphone, and more). He/She will be building the most advanced natural dialogue applications for public consumer use cases. The candidate will be working with cutting edge technology and is expected to do exploratory work, improving and innovating, while focusing on delivering the required application features. The candidate will also work on challenging research problems that have a concrete impact on real-world applications. The main focus of this is to enhance our advanced dialog architecture so that it can allow application developers to author rapidly and intuitively, and tune systematically, highly performing, potentially multi-modal, natural dialog systems. Develop and support real-life advanced-dialog applications, systematically improving their performance and transferring know-how to application groups Improve existing dialog architecture so that; General dialog strategies such as corrections, choice navigation, error detection comes for free from the architecture instead of being programmatically added for each application Re-usability from previous applications is optimized Necessary application specific input/configuration are intuitive and centralized so that application development is quick and well-defined. Qualifications: Required: Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent), or Bachelors with 2 years experience. Preferred: Ph.D. or Masters plus 4 years of relevant experience. Strong algorithmic and software skills, especially in Java and in designing architectures that generalize well. Accomplished coder with ability to realize research ideas. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. AI and agent-based programming, speech, natural language processing, experience with Dialog systems, knowledge representation & ontology design, machine learning, data mining and keen interest in applied research are all preferred skills for this role. Degree in computer science, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or related experience required. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Anywhere

HPC Administrator Opportunities Nationwide

Big Data Careers is currently working with several clients nationwide on their HPC admin related openings. Experience in the following: parallel computing environments including LINUX clusters and SMP’s systems; various parallel and shared file systems (e.g. Lustre, CXFS, XFS, NFS and GPFS in particular are highly desirable); various Linux distributions: especially SUSE and RedHat; various system architectures including SGI-NUMAFLEX (Origin or ALTIX) and Intel based Linux clusters/systems (e.g. SGI ICE, HP, IBM x-series, SUN or Dell). Experience with LINUX/UNIX, LSF/PBS/SGE workload configuration, MPI, Apache, SSH/Rsync, Globus toolkit, OS-X, MS-Windows virtualization on VMWARE or ZEN is important. • Minimum of 5 years related experience and have expert Enterprise Architecture engineering knowledge of clustered Linux HPC environments. • 4+ years direct experience troubleshooting hardware architectures from a performance, scalability, reliability, and security perspectives in a clustered environment. • 4+ years direct experience configuring data center architectures and operations support for enterprise class applications. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Anywhere

Hadoop Administrator, San Francisco, CA

Big Data Careers is working with a client in San Francisco, CA on their search for an experienced Hadoop administrator. Responsibilities: Manage a fast growing population of Big Data clusters, using Hadoop, HBase and other NoSQL technologies Architect, build, and scale Big Data infrastructure to meet the needs of all data consumers at Hulu Develop and maintain operational best practices for smooth operation of Big Data clusters Collaborate with researchers, application engineers, and product managers in an open, creative environment Qualifications: Strong knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem and associated components - Hive, HBase, Zookeeper, Flume Strong knowledge of open source monitoring tools such as Nagios and Ganglia Strong knowledge supporting, installing, and configuring Linux based systems Strong knowledge of scripting with Unix shell, Python, Java Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Knowledge Engineer, Big Data, San Francisco, CA

Big Data Careers is currently working with a client in the Bay Area who are seeking an experienced knowledge engineer for one of our clients in the Bay Area. Our client is an information broker offering data to executives and human resource professionals. Main duties are to design new big data systems. Candidates will have Java development skills (server-side), NLP, machine learning, and data mining experience. Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Algorithm Developer for Speech recognition, Boston, MA

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced algorithm developer. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. The person will be part of an energetic team developing a cutting-edge speech recognizer in C++. She/He will help develop new algorithms and APIs, optimize code for speed and memory, and fix bugs. She/He will interact with clients in Research and Development. The person will be responsible for contributing to the on-going development of a multi-platform, multi-purpose speech recognition engine. She/He will write code to implement new features, analyze existing code, and correct, optimize and refactor it. She/He will help maintain and enhance systems that test the recognizer for correctness and performance. The person will also be responsible for fielding questions and requests from various in-house clients of the recognizer. Qualifications:2+ years experience. Good C++ software development skills, Excellent algorithmic and analytical skills. Understanding of speech recognition algorithms, Experience with large software development projects, Fluency in Python, Knowledge of Unix / MacOS, Additional background in Linguistics and/or Mathematics. Masters in Computer Science (or higher) or equivalent experience. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Boston Massachusetts, United States

Computational Linguist, Boston MA Visa sponsorship available!

Big Data Careers is currently seeking a computational linguist to work on a mobile automated assistant. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. The role is focused on the implementation of algorithms, text processing and analysis, and running experiments. Research Engineer Implement algorithms for information extraction and query classification Train, tune, and evaluate statistical classification models Produce and publish experimental results showing performance of models Analyze errors related to information extraction and classification Develop and manage scripting resources for new processes Number of Years of Work Experience: 2-5 Required Skills: Proficiency with scripting languages such as Perl, Python or similar Experience in experimental setup, execution, evaluation, and communication of results Strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot processes Self-motivated with a friendly personality and a can-do attitude Preferred Skills: Experience in information extraction, information retrieval, machine learning, or related field Education: Masters or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or related discipline Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Boston Massachusetts, United States

Sr. Research Engineer Language Modeling, Visa sponsorship available!

Big Data Careers is currently seeking an experienced researcher to focus on language modeling. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. The responsibilities of this position will include gathering and processing of appropriate text data, building and releasing statistical language models, evaluating emerging systems, and assisting with research experiments aimed at iterative improvements. This will be accomplished with the help of existing tools and technologies but will require customizations per application and data source along with the creation of new software. An LM Researcher will work closely with the LM Research Scientists, LM Linguists and LM Engineers on the team. They will leverage LM Linguist expertise to aid in processing, cleaning and conditioning data to be used for training and updating models. They will use tools provided by LM Engineers for general data processing and model building. The LM Research Scientists will provide guidance on the recipes to use for building models, variations that need to be evaluated and related experiments that need to be run and analyzed. It is expected that over time, LM Researchers will gain intuition in proper experiment design and that provided research specifications will require less fleshing out. Additionally they will gradually gain expertise in using our modeling toolkit. A LM Researcher will be working predominantly in a Linux environment making use of command line tools. They will create new scripts for processing data and for gluing together existing tool Number of years of work experience: 2 Required Skills: The qualified candidate should have 2+ years experience working in a UNIX/Linux environment and solid scripting skills (shell, Perl, Python). The candidate must be well-organized and responsible and capable of working efficiently as part of a group and independently with only moderate supervision Preferred Skills: Working knowledge of C/C++ is a plus Educations: Candidates should minimally have a bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; a master's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent industry experience preferred. A background, courses, and/or knowledge in the fields of statistics, machine learning, speech, corpus processing and/or linguistics are helpful. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Anywhere

Sr. Research Scientist, Language Modeling, Seattle WA, Visa sponsorship available!

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced Sr. Research Scientist, Language Modeling. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. Duties are: Responsible for conducting product-oriented research projects in the field of language modeling aiming at accuracy improvements as well as innovative features for mobile ASR applications, including literature research, assessment of alternative approaches, prototyping, experimental evaluation and productization support. Will collaborate closely with other researchers, engineers and linguists on the LM team and related research teams (e.g. NLU). Will report to LM Research Manager. Principal Duties: Conducting experiments to assess the quality of language models and study the effect of language modeling variants and ancillary natural language processing technology (e.g. compounding) on speech recognition accuracy. Analyzing field data in order to identify areas of possible improvement or enhancement of language modeling process, method, and NLP techniques. Implementation of improved training recipes and NLP prototypes utilizing programming skills in C/C++, Perl, and Python in a grid computing Linux-based environment. Enhancing techniques for rapid language development for new languages / domains. Research scientific literature, devise and assess novel language modeling and NLP techniques Discussing and presenting ideas and results within the team and/or larger research group, reporting progress on a regular basis and maintaining per project documentation. Investigation and resolution of problem reports related to released models Focus primarily on NVC applications. Number of Years of Work Experience: 0-7+ years Required Skills: Background in speech technology, statistical machine translation or natural language processing Solid programming skills (C/C++, Python) Experience using Unix/Linux and shell scripting Solid written and oral communication skills (English) Preferred Skills: Explicit (industry or academic) experience with large vocabulary speech recognition Expertise in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, statistical modeling, numerical optimization, data mining, algorithm design, software engineering, computational linguistics Education: Advanced degree (Master or PhD) in computer science, computational linguistics, applied mathematics, or a related field Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Seattle Washington, United States

Language Modeling Research, Burlington, MA; Seattle, WA; Aachen, Germany or Montreal, CN

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced research engineer to work on a language modeling. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. The responsibilities of this position will include gathering and processing of appropriate text data, building and releasing statistical language models, evaluating emerging systems, and assisting with research experiments aimed at iterative improvements. This will be accomplished with the help of existing tools and technologies but will require customizations per application and data source along with the creation of new software. An LM Researcher will work closely with the LM Research Scientists, LM Linguists and LM Engineers on the team. They will leverage LM Linguist expertise to aid in processing, cleaning and conditioning data to be used for training and updating models. They will use tools provided by LM Engineers for general data processing and model building. The LM Research Scientists will provide guidance on the recipes to use for building models, variations that need to be evaluated and related experiments that need to be run and analyzed. It is expected that over time, LM Researchers will gain intuition in proper experiment design and that provided research specifications will require less fleshing out. Additionally they will gradually gain expertise in using our modeling toolkit. An LM Researcher will be working predominantly in a Linux environment making use of command line tools. They will create new scripts for processing data and for gluing together existing tool 2 years experience (or PhD) Speech and/or language processing background (in research and/or industry) Good analytical and diagnostic skills Proven programming and scripting skills Experience with C/C++, Python, Perl and Linux environment Strong communication skills Experience in large-scale distributed software development Experience in speech recognition, NLP Interest in languages Education: PhD or Master's Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, comp. linguistics, or equivalent Research Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Aachen Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Sr. Language Modeling Researcher Burlington, MA; Seattle, WA; Aachen, Germany or Montreal, CN

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced research engineer to work on a language modeling. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. - Conducting experiments to assess the quality of language models and study the effect of language modeling variants and ancillary natural language processing technology (such as auto-punctuation) on speech recognition accuracy. - Collecting, cleaning, processing and conditioning training data. - Analyzing field data in order to identify areas of possible improvement or enhancement of language modeling process, method, and NLP techniques. - Implementation of improved training recipes and NLP prototypes utilizing programming skills in C/C++, Perl, and Python. - Discussing and presenting ideas and results within the team, reporting progress on a regular basis Background in speech technology, statistical machine translation or natural language processing solid programming skills (C/C++, Python) experience using Unix/Linux and shell scripting solid written and oral communication skills (English) 2 years experience (or PhD) Speech and/or language processing background (in research and/or industry) Good analytical and diagnostic skills Proven programming and scripting skills Experience with C/C++, Python, Perl and Linux environment Strong communication skills Experience in large-scale distributed software development Experience in speech recognition, NLP Interest in languages Education: PhD or Master's Degree in computer science, electrical engineering, comp. linguistics, or equivalent Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Boston Massachusetts, United States

Natural Language Understanding Engineer, UK English

Big Data Careers is currently looking for a Natural Language Understanding Engineer, UK English. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will be part of the team that will develop state-of-the-art multi-modal natural dialog system for mobile platforms (smartphone, and more). He/She will be building the most advanced natural dialogue applications for public consumer use cases. The candidate will be working with cutting edge technology and is expected to do exploratory work, improving and innovating, while focusing on delivering the required application features. The candidate will also work on challenging research problems that have a concrete impact on real-world applications. The main focus of this is to enhance our advanced dialog architecture so that it can allow application developers to author rapidly and intuitively, and tune systematically, highly performing, potentially multi-modal, natural dialog systems. Develop and support real-life advanced-dialog applications, systematically improving their performance and transferring know-how to application groups Improve existing dialog architecture so that; General dialog strategies such as corrections, choice navigation, error detection comes for free from the architecture instead of being programmatically added for each application Re-usability from previous applications is optimized Necessary application specific input/configuration are intuitive and centralized so that application development is quick and well-defined. Required: Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent), or Bachelors with 2 years experience. Preferred: Ph.D. or Masters plus 4 years of relevant experience. Strong algorithmic and software skills, especially in Java and in designing architectures that generalize well. Accomplished coder with ability to realize research ideas. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. AI and agent-based programming, speech, natural language processing, experience with Dialog systems, knowledge representation & ontology design, machine learning, data mining and keen interest in applied research are all preferred skills for this role. Degree in computer science, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or related experience required. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: Montreal Quebec, Canada

Natural Language Understanding Research Engineer

Full-Time

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced Natural Language Understanding Research Engineer. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will help develop exciting natural language applications for consumer devices, primarily smart phones. The main focus of this position will be the development of models for a statistical natural language understanding system. The aim is to provide results which reflect a deep understanding of the intent and which support a useful, conversational interaction with an increasingly intelligent backend. Develop and support NLU technology for advanced spoken language applications. Build and maintain experimental infrastructures. Write grammars and heuristic reasoning engines, train statistical models and improve underlying software pipelines. Process user data to improve the performance of statistical NLU systems. Do error analysis and creatively find solutions to accuracy issues. As a senior member, you will be required to come up with innovative ideas, to demonstrate initiative and possibly coordinate the work of more junior team members. Number of Years of Work Experience: Minimal: PhD or MSc + relevant experience in Computer Science, EE, Computational Linguistics (with coding skills) Required Skills: Software (java), scripting with python or perl. Linux. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. Preferred Skills: machine learning, statistical and rule based language NLP, language skills, multi-linguism Education: Degree in computer science, Computational Linguistics, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or related experience required.  

Location: BostonMassachusetts, United States

Business Intelligence Analyst Data Architect (SSRS, SSAS, SSIS)

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an experienced data architect with 7+ years of experience in the business intelligence field who will be lead architect for the its Business Intelligence & Analytics team. This team delivers BI reporting and analytics. Our infrastructure provides a mix of traditional BI data warehouse and Big Data sources that deliver key insights from usage statistics, performance metrics, and other mission critical data This is an opportunity to build our new data warehouse from the ground up. Delivery focus is a key attribute for this role. Other essential skills include: consensus building, team management, project management, and negotiation skills. Hands-on involvement to resolve issues is regularly required and this architect should be adept in navigating a mission critical fast-paced environment. This role reports to Manager of Business Intelligence within Mobile Connected Services. Principal Duties and Responsibilities: Design and document conceptual and logical data models for the data warehouse architecture to scale out for billions of transactions monthly Execute entire components of large BI & Analytics projects from start to finish leading the development teams, mitigating issues, and communicating status to stakeholders Ensure best practices across the BI team for development and architecture Ensure optimal database performance and availability Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to document and explain the Data Architecture to technical and business audiences Qualifications: Number of Years of Work Experience: 7 + years Required Skills: •Proven experience designing and managing a large data warehouse reporting infrastructure •Proven experience in designing and implementing scalable reporting solutions •Advanced knowledge of best practices in data warehousing and business intelligence •Advanced experience with MSSQL BI stack including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS •Advanced SQL expertise with T-SQL and stored procedures as well as MDX •Advanced RDBMS experience designing and modeling star/snowflake schemas in an analytic/reporting environment Preferred Skills: MCSE for Data Platform or Business Intelligence a plus Solid understanding of NoSQL technologies/products like Hadoop, HBase, or Cassandra a plus Proficiency with MS Excel – advanced features like pivot tables Product marketing experience, with a good sense of the key business drivers in the mobile and telecom ecosystem Education: B.S. Computer Science or equivalent

Location: Boston Massachusetts, United States

Natural Language Understanding Engineer, Chinese

Big Data Careers is currently looking for a Natural Language Understanding Engineer, Chinese. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will be part of the team that will develop state-of-the-art multi-modal natural dialog system for mobile platforms (smartphone, and more). He/She will be building the most advanced natural dialogue applications for public consumer use cases. The candidate will be working with cutting edge technology and is expected to do exploratory work, improving and innovating, while focusing on delivering the required application features. The candidate will also work on challenging research problems that have a concrete impact on real-world applications. The main focus of this is to enhance our advanced dialog architecture so that it can allow application developers to author rapidly and intuitively, and tune systematically, highly performing, potentially multi-modal, natural dialog systems. Develop and support real-life advanced-dialog applications, systematically improving their performance and transferring know-how to application groups Improve existing dialog architecture so that; General dialog strategies such as corrections, choice navigation, error detection comes for free from the architecture instead of being programmatically added for each application Re-usability from previous applications is optimized Necessary application specific input/configuration are intuitive and centralized so that application development is quick and well-defined. Qualifications: Required: Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent), or Bachelors with 2 years experience. Preferred: Ph.D. or Masters plus 4 years of relevant experience. Strong algorithmic and software skills, especially in Java and in designing architectures that generalize well. Accomplished coder with ability to realize research ideas. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. AI and agent-based programming, speech, natural language processing, experience with Dialog systems, knowledge representation & ontology design, machine learning, data mining and keen interest in applied research are all preferred skills for this role. Degree in computer science, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or related experience required. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Boston Massachusetts, United States

It Security Manager

Big Data Careers is currently seeking an engineering manager to focus on web application security, mobile security, and IT infrastructure. Our client is a leader in the worldwide leader in user reviews and recommendations of top restaurants, shopping, nightlife, entertainment, services and more. They are looking for a security-oriented engineering manager. Coding is a requirement. Not only will you be asked to code in your role but you’ll also be responsible for compliance, application security, and training for our growing engineering team. From setting security policy, to helping detect XSS exploits, this position will cover a wide range of responsibilities. You’ll help our client ensure that user PII is safe, that financial transactions meet regulatory requirements. Responsibilities: Ensuring that engineering systems being designed are analyzed for security vulnerabilities Training new engineers on best practices in web and mobile application security Managing complex technical projects and a small team of software engineers Participating in the hiring process Responsiblitly for the security of Yelp (web application, mobile security, and IT infrastructure) Doing code and design reviews for fellow engineers Writing code (primarily for security infrastructure) Requirements: A deep understanding of web security best practices Knowledge of PCI and related compliance specifications Previous experience as a technical lead and/or manager Command of your favorite modern programming languages with a preference towards Python programmers Comfortable working in a Unix environment Willing (and able) to roll up your sleeves and code alongside the team Enjoy providing frequent and constructive feedback Able to coach and mentor junior team members and new college graduates.

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Director of Engineering

Big Data Careers  is looking for an individual that can help lead, motivate, and manage our client's software engineering team. You will be in charge of cultivating that culture and making sure that it stays. You will be a cornerstone of our organization responsible for setting strategic directions for the teams you manage, help guide engineering decisions, and develop the engineers and engineering managers on your teams. An ideal candidate has shown themselves to excel in almost any situation, learn from their mistakes, and admit them. If you want to be part of a world-class engineering team, we recommend you apply. Requirements: BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience Be a proven leader and manager Must have experience with backend, web, or data-mining development Must be a builder and have a proven record of building in the past (meaning experience as a software engineer in your career) Must be okay with getting your hands dirty when needed: “read the source, Luke.” Excellent written and verbal communication skills High amounts of emotional intelligence Ability to filter large amounts of information and distill the important kernel of information Experience with different programming languages like: Python, C, C++, etc... Must have an excellent eye for engineering potential/talent Enjoy building teams Self-aware to the point of understanding your own strengths and weaknesses, technical and nontechnical Responsibilities: Managing the growth of engineering managers and individual contributors Growing the engineering team as a whole Raising your hand when we’ve made a mistake and taking ownership Working with product teams to make sure we’re hitting deadlines and building amazing products

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Hadoop Architect

Big Data Careers is looking for an experienced full-time architect to design and implement our first generation, mission critical applications for our client. This individual will work with product management and engineering to design scalable, secure, functional, maintainable and easy-to-use systems for users. Responsibilities: Lead the strategic development of new features and products as well as the overall architecture of the site. Collaborate with senior management and product management to understand system requirements and map out and validate product features. Develop long- and short-term recommendations regarding overall system architecture, including technology choice, implementation concerns, and performance and scalability considerations. Serve in a lead role for major design and development projects. Act as subject matter expert for a variety of technologies and development tools. Work with engineering and product management to build a product backlog and schedule estimates. Monitor the overall technology landscape, and surface relevant changes in technology trends as well as new and potentially useful software. Participate in pre-release, demo events and other company events. Mentor junior developers. Minimum Candidate Qualifications: BS in computer science/engineering with a minimum of 10 years software development experience using multiple commonly used computer languages. Demonstrated experience architecting and developing systems. Knowledge of and expertise in one or more languages commonly used to build large scale data processing applications (e.g. Scala, Erlang, Java). Proven experience building Internet-scale systems and delivering them in a 24x7, high availability production environment. Solid understanding and practical experience in object-oriented design and programming, design patterns and the software development life cycle. Comfort in a start-up environment where innovation and change are the norm. Ability to work with peers in marketing and product management to determine product requirements. Additional Desired Qualifications: Experience building text search applications at scale with commonly used libraries and tools (e.g. Lucene, Solr). An understanding of how to architect and build ‘Big Data’ applications based on commonly used tools and frameworks (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Hive, etc.). Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL data stores at scale. Expert knowledge of the security considerations that apply to networked applications. Experience building systems that scale to service hundreds of requests per second from millions of clients.

Location: Anywhere

Backend Java Engineer - Big Data

You’re a backend Java developer that enjoys the challenge of building amazing, large-scale commercial server products. You’ve built core technologies from the ground up in past gigs, and can do it again if necessary. You know the value of applying the right algorithm to the job and the chops to implement it in a performant and extensible way.  In our role, you will collaborate with other top-notch developers to build a new and unique way of analyzing, visualizing and understanding large amounts of data via our distributed, cutting edge system. You’re also of the mind that software is written for use, and know that it’s no use to build something that has no purpose; your software should be improving someone’s life.  In fact, you like the idea of potentially getting involved with solving some customer issues, and maybe traveling to meet with them, as long as it doesn’t take over your ability to code regularly. Key Skills Java, Scala, backend, distributed systems, data processing, algorithm, extensible, data visualization, enterprise software

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Sr. Data Scientist

Big Data Careers is looking for an experienced data scientist for one of our clients. Duties:  

• Collaborate with Linguists, Designers, and Engineers to develop disruptive Speech tuning methods
• Convert data into intelligent strategies used to drive product development
• Apply creative solutions to challenging problems and applied research initiatives
• Design and implement experiments related to user perception and behavior analysis
• Code and maintain associated tools and components
• Contribute to ongoing deep-text analysis development efforts related to TTS
• Collaborate on advancing statistical modeling techniques

• Strong background in applied machine learning and statistical analysis
• Demonstrated experience with crowdsourcing platforms and technologies (Mechanical Turk, Microtask,etc.)
• Experience in programming languages such as C++, HTML5/CSS3, JSP, Python, etc.
• An advanced understanding of various speech technologies (ASR, TTS, NLP)
• Master’s degree in Linguistics, CS, or Human-Computer Interaction (PhD strongly preferred)

Location: Sunnyvale California, United States

Data Scientist

Big Data Careers is currently working with a client in Seattle, WA who is looking for an experienced data scientist to join their team. Key responsibilities: - Analyze behavior patterns to produce insights from large-scale data that can inform data driven decision making - Work with user interaction data to understand and measure user intent, utility to users, and user satisfaction - Design and analyze experiments using rigorous statistical methods to answer business questions, evaluate product options, and improve ad performance - Proactively monitor and analyze complex systems to understand, diagnose and continuously improve business and operation parameters - Strategic analysis, modeling and projection for new monetization strategies, products and business directions Basic Qualifications - B.S. degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science or a similar quantitative field - 3+ years of work experience in a relevant field - Experience using SQL to analyze data in a database or data warehouse and ability to use a major programming language (e.g. Java/C) and/or a scripting language (Perl, Unix shell) to process data for modeling Preferred Qualifications The ideal candidate will have experience in the following areas, with deep expertise in one or more areas: - Statistics - Machine learning - Data mining - Predictive and decision modeling - Algorithms and optimization - Theory and practice of online advertising In addition, the ideal candidate will possess - A PhD in a relevant field of Computer Science or related discipline such as Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Finance - 5+ years of industry experience - Experience with large data sets, experiment design and analysis - Superior verbal and written communication skills; ability to convey rigorous mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts - The ability to distill problem definitions, models, and constraints from informal business requirements and to deal with ambiguity and competing objectives

Location: Seattle Washington, United States

Teradata DBA Consultant

Responsible for verifying and implementing the detailed technical design solution to the problem as identified by the Project/Technical Manager. Often responsible for providing a detailed technical design for enterprise solutions. Is often the Principal Consultant who analyzes and develops enterprise technology solutions. · Regularly leads in the technical assessment and delivery of specific technical solutions to the customer. Provides a team structure conducive to high performance, and manages the team lifecycle stages. · Coordinates implementation of new installations, designs, and migrations for technology solutions in one of the following work domains: networks, applications or platforms. · Provides advanced technical consulting and advice to others on proposal efforts, solution design, system management, tuning and modification of solutions. Provides input to HP strategy moving forward. · Collects and determines data from appropriate sources to assist in determining customer needs and requirements. Responds to requests for technical information from customers. Develops customer technology solutions using various industry · products and technologies. · Engages in technical problem solving across multiple technologies; often needs to develop new methods to apply to the situation. · Owns and manages knowledge sharing within a community (e.g. team, practice, or project). Ensures team members support knowledge sharing and re-use requirements of project. Contributes significant knowledge to job family community. · Proactively encourages membership and contributions of others to professional community and coaches others in area of expertise. Regularly produces internally published material such as knowledge briefs, service delivery kit components and modules, etc. Presents at multi-customer technology conferences. · Creates and supports sales activities. Manages bids, or major input into the sales lifecycle. Manages activities and provides qualitative and quantitative information for successful sales. Produces complete proposals for smaller engagements within area of expertise. Actively grows HP portfolio with existing customers through new opportunities and change management. Assists with multiple customers. Leads and/or provides expertise to functional project teams and may participate in cross-functional initiatives. Sustained and consistent contribution at the work group level. Qualifications Education and Experience Required: 8+ years of professional experience and a Bachelor of Arts/Science or equivalent degree in computer science or related area of study; without a degree, three additional years of relevant professional experience (11+ years in total). · Teradata with 5-8 years of experience in midsized multiple location Teradata instances · 5 + years of end-to-end solution architecture for DW / BI solutions in a Teradata MPP environment. · 5 + years experience in implementation of data warehouse architecture and systems architecture. · Experience in providing guidance and leadership to ETL and Reporting teams for Teradata architecture and performance. · Experience in providing HW/SW oversight (selection, sizing, configuration recommendation & execution). · Experience in leading performance tuning / optimization. · Experience in Teradata Load utilities · Experience in Golden Gate is a Plus Knowledge and Skills Required: · Has sufficient depth and breadth of technical knowledge to design and scope multiple deliverables across a number of technologies. · Has demonstrated innovation and communication of new deliverables and offerings. Has led team in the delivery of multiple deliverables across multiple technologies. · Ability to develop solutions that enhance the availability, performance, maintainability and agility of a particular customer's enterprise. Has contributed to the design and application of new tools. Ability to re-use existing experience to develop new solutions to take to market. · Possesses an understanding, at a detailed level, of architectural dependencies of technologies in use in the customer's Information Technology (IT) environment. Frequently uses product and application knowledge along with internals or architectural knowledge to develop solutions. A recognized expert in one or more technologies within own technical community and also at regional level. Holds a vendor or industry certification in at least one discipline area. · Able to communicate with internal and external senior management confidently and demonstrate the professionalism of the job family. · Ability to work in a multi technology environment with the ability to diagnose complex technical problems to their root cause. In addition to troubleshooting skills and consulting skills, has ability to summaries prognosis and impact at practice lead level. Ability to adapt a consulting style appropriate to the situation and can identify up-sell opportunities. · Be able to demonstrate a broad understanding of market dynamics, an industry area, commercial issues, and technical concerns whilst maintaining depth in core focus area. · Ability to present within own area of expertise as part of a customer sales presentation, putting forward domain-specific information within the context of an HP sales campaign. Has demonstrated ability to lead others in the gathering of requirements, designs, plans and estimates. Able to produce complete proposals for smaller engagements within own area of expertise. · Demonstrates broad knowledge in other technical areas in order to properly manage complex integration efforts. Demonstrates application of technical expertise in successful engagements involving multiple disciplines. · Able to independently complete solution implementation or application design deliverables. · Able to manage a team of consultants in the completion of one or more solution requirements, architecture, or implementation deliverable. Teradata DBA: Teradata with 3-5 years of experience in midsized multiple location Teradata instances 5 + years of end-to-end solution architecture for DW / BI solutions in a Teradata MPP environment. 2 + years experience in implementation of data warehouse architecture and systems architecture. Experience in providing guidance and leadership to ETL and Reporting teams for Teradata architecture and performance. Experience in providing HW/SW oversight (selection, sizing, configuration recommendation & execution). Experience in leading performance tuning / optimization. Experience in Teradata Load utilities Experience in Golden Gate is a Plus

Location: Thousand Oaks California, United States

Big Data Hadoop Tech Lead

Big Data Careers is currently working with a client in Minneapolis, MN in their search for a senior Bi Dat Hadoop lead. Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills, particularly those that apply to a "Big Data" environment Deep understanding and related experience with Hadoop internals, HBase, Hive, Pig and Map/Reduce Familiarity with Teradata and ETL tools is a plus Deep understanding of schedulers, workload management, availability, scalability and distributed data platforms Excellent communication skills, particularly those relating to complex findings and presenting them to ensure audience appeal at various levels of the organization Ability to integrate research and best practices into problem avoidance and continuous improvement Extensive experience building and designing large-scale distributed applications Expert knowledge developing and debugging in Java/J2EE Proven experience in Object Oriented Design and Development Sound knowledge of Relational Databases (RDBMS), SQL & No-SQL databases Experience with agile/scrum methodologies to iterate quickly on product changes, developing user stories and working through backlogs Be extremely knowledgeable of industry standards and trends

Location: Minneapolis Minnesota, United States

Technical Lead Big Data, H1B Visa, San Francisco, CA

Our client is looking for a Technical Lead to manage development of and assist in the design of Big Data and Information Processing systems. These systems involve information extraction, machine learning and natural language processing. You will act as a facilitator to both our experienced engineers and our Product Development team - managing the design, development, and delivery of our intelligent systems. You will be critical in turning our ambitious product roadmap into a reality and will be an innovative, motivated, communicative, and driven leader who thrives in a team environment. You will be involved with: Next-stage knowledge systems and technologies using emerging techniques. Solving some of the most interesting problems in “Big Data”. A very energetic, dynamic, and talented team. We will provide immigration sponsorship for qualified applicants. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. Management may assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. Work closely with our VP of Data Science to refine high-level functional requirements into manageable implementation level tasks. Assist in research and design of next-stage Big Data systems. Help our team of experienced and talented engineers manage and execute on an ambitious product roadmap with many moving parts. Be an “expert” resource on a number of the many next-stages technologies being used by the team. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES Success in this role will depend greatly on: Strong knowledge of, and experience in, Java development in a server-side environment. Experience with, or at a minimum strong interest in, modern information extraction, categorization and inferencing systems. NLP, machine learning, data mining knowledge a plus. Strong desire to learn. Strong team management abilities. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE BS, MS in Computer Science or related technical field. Minimum of seven years of experience in Java development. Minimum three years of experience in a technical lead role. Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Speech Scientist, Boston, MA or San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA

Big Data Careers is currently looking for experienced speech scientists for one of our customers. Our client is the largest e-retailer company in the world. Candidates will provide analysis using a variety of modeling tools to improve speech recognition. The position requires at least a Master in CS or engineering or statistic or math or linguistics. A PhD is preferred. Further candidates must posses excellent object orientated software engineering skills in Java or C++ and scripting skills in Python or Perl. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: Seattle Washington, United States

NLP Lead, San Francisco,CA

Big Data Careers is currently looking for an NLP Lead, for one of our clients in the Bay Area. Our client is creating a consumer faced mobile healthcare company. This is a salaried position with substantial early-stage equity. They have a founding team with a successful startup track record and have a path to be on millions of consumer smartphones and tablets next year. Critical components of the platform are natural language-based, and your role will be to architect and prototype those components as part of a superb small team. This role will have great visibility and you will have access to the CEO, Board of Directors, and Investors. As a key member of a small team, you will: · create value as part of the team by bringing NLP expertise; Machine Learning; document parsing; machine translation; and related techniques to the product · evaluate technology options and recommend solutions. · participate in product architecture, design, prototyping and vision evolution. To be successful, you will have most of the following: · High energy level as appropriate for a small company planning to make a big impact on the industry. · Prior experience developing commercial products · Strong and obvious interest in one or more of the following: • Natural Language Processing • Information Retrieval • Machine Learning • Machine Translation • Document Parsing • Information Extraction • Voice Recognition · Solid competence in at least one of the following: • Python or PHP • C++ • Java • Degree in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics Resumes can be sent to jobs@bigdata-careers.com  

Location: San Francisco California, United States

R&D Machine Learning Developer, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities: Design and implementation of state-of-the-art machine learning methods, including new/custom methods, drawing from all techniques of machine learning and statistics, as well as algorithms/data structures, optimization, linear algebra, computational geometry, graph theory, discrete mathematics, and parallel algorithms/data structures. Desired skills & experience: PhD or equivalent experience in machine learning, statistics, or other mathematical fields including computer science, pure or applied mathematics, electrical engineering, theoretical or applied physics, etc. Expert/research-level experience in designing, implementing, and deploying statistical/machine learning and computational methods, as demonstrated by publications in premier research conferences/journals and/or high-impact machine learning applications. Expert background in C/C++ and code development in Linux. Strong candidates will also have experience in the following: Experience in mid-sized coding projects with multiple developers and a set release schedule, using techniques/tools for bug tracking, code reviews, smoke testing, unit testing, and version control. High-performance computing, GPGPUs, and code optimizations. Experience in any of the following is desirable but optional: Other languages such as Java, Python, etc. Proficiency with data analysis platforms such as Matlab, R, etc. and real-world data analysis. Databases, ETL, OLAP, and data warehousing platforms such as TeraData, Oracle, Netezza, SAP, SAS, etc. Other big data and distributed computing models.

Location: San Francisco California, United States

Multi-modal Natural Dialog Engineer, Italian Language

Big Data Careers is currently looking for a Natural Language Understanding Engineer in the Italian language. Our client is the leader in natural language processing. As a member of the NLP Research group, the candidate will be part of the team that will develop state-of-the-art multi-modal natural dialog system for mobile platforms (smartphone, and more). He/She will be building the most advanced natural dialogue applications for public consumer use cases. The candidate will be working with cutting edge technology and is expected to do exploratory work, improving and innovating, while focusing on delivering the required application features. The candidate will also work on challenging research problems that have a concrete impact on real-world applications. The main focus of this is to enhance our advanced dialog architecture so that it can allow application developers to author rapidly and intuitively, and tune systematically, highly performing, potentially multi-modal, natural dialog systems. Develop and support real-life advanced-dialog applications, systematically improving their performance and transferring know-how to application groups Improve existing dialog architecture so that; General dialog strategies such as corrections, choice navigation, error detection comes for free from the architecture instead of being programmatically added for each application Re-usability from previous applications is optimized Necessary application specific input/configuration are intuitive and centralized so that application development is quick and well-defined. Qualifications: Required: Masters in Computer Science (or equivalent), or Bachelors with 2 years experience. Preferred: Ph.D. or Masters plus 4 years of relevant experience. Strong algorithmic and software skills, especially in Java and in designing architectures that generalize well. Accomplished coder with ability to realize research ideas. Should be able to take initiative, but also follow a plan and work well as part of a team. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. AI and agent-based programming, speech, natural language processing, experience with Dialog systems, knowledge representation & ontology design, machine learning, data mining and keen interest in applied research are all preferred skills for this role. Degree in computer science, EE, math or related field. Advanced degree or related experience required. Resumes can be send to jobs@bigdata-careers.com

Location: Anywhere