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Data Scientist Position at Skimlinks

Country/Region : UK - United Kingdom

Website : http://skimlinks.com/team

Description

Skimlinks is looking for a Senior Data Science Engineer to help us build innovative, highly scalable, machine learning products. You’ll join a small but expanding team of data scientists and machine learning experts and will be involved at every stage in specifying, designing and building out new products.
Skimlinks is one of the most well-known startups in the UK, described by Techcrunch as one of London’s leading startups, and voted in the top 10 of the Guardian Tech Media Invest. We develop applications and APIs that let the online publishing community monetize their content. We are leaders in this space and currently work with approx 40,000 publishers, over 18,000 ecommerce sites, serving 20 billion API requests a month across 1.5 million active websites.
About the role
We are creating a fundamentally new approach to digital marketing, combining the latest information from behavioural research with large-scale machine learning. Our data sets are truly massive: we collect data on approximately one billion users per month.
As our Senior Data Science Engineer your responsibilities will include:
? Designing and scaling up machine learning algorithms
? Statistical Modelling and analysis
? Performing large scale behavioural experiments
About you
At Skimlinks we value dedication, enthusiasm, and a love of innovation. We are disrupting the online monetization industry, and welcome candidates who want to be a part of this ambitious journey. But its not just hard work, we definitely appreciate a bit of quirkiness and fun along the way.
We’re looking for a Data Scientist with the following:
? Proven work experience with statistical modelling on large data sets.
? Familiarity with distributed computing in Pig, Hive or Spark.
? An advanced degree (Masters/PhD) degree in statistics, machine learning or a related scientific field.
? Solid coding skills, ideally with experience in Python or R.
? A commercial mindset, you’ll be passionate about creating outstanding products.
? You’ll be equally ready to code up a working prototype as to perform statistical analysis and research.
? Ambition to join a tight-knit international team of scientists and machine learning specialists.
As our Data Scientist you’ll also probably have an interest in techniques such as HMMs, MCMC, particle filters, feature hashing, semi-supervised learning, unsupervised feature learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning or NLP.
About the Company
Founded in 2007, Skimlinks is a start-up behind an innovative service that helps online publishers make money from their editorial and user-generated content. Our base products convert relevant words and links in-text into monetizable links, with a bunch of publisher tools and advanced reporting to support them.
Our clients include the world’s leading online newspapers, content and blog networks, including Wordpress, Hearst Digital, T3.com, Pocket-lint, Mumsnet and over 10,000 more content sites, forums, web applications and blogs.
We're 70 people, based in London and San Francisco. Our platform serves over 3 billion requests worldwide per month, using the latest technologies and cloud infrastructure to power it.
We have won a myriad of awards, including Telegraph Startup100, Linkshare Technology Genius Award 2010, Best New Business and Special Award for Technological Innovation from New Media Age awards 2009. Check out our blog for more awards and media mentions at http://blog.skimlinks.com
We are a friendly and dedicated team, genuinely excited by the prospect of disruptive innovation. We’re looking to grow a team that shares that ethos.
Find out more about your future colleagues and what it’s like working at Skimlinks at http://skimlinks.com/team

Last modified: 2014-07-30 23:00:03