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Group: JOBS 2.0: Job Search Career Networking Staffing. Post Resume -Get Paid by Employers at Resumark .com Subject: #19573 Senior Data Scientist - Mobile /Advertising Location: San Mateo, CA Anna Mathieu posted a job: #19573 Senior Data Scientist - Mobile /Advertising Location: San Mateo, CA "Company: Our client is a VC-backed Silicon Valley startup building the next generation mobile advertising technology platform. Their team consists of former executives at leading Internet and Mobile companies, with experience in Data Warehousing, Mobile and Internet Targeting technology, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Yield Optimization, Ad Serving and Real Time Bidding algorithms and systems. They develop advertising targeting platform solutions to maximize brand advertisers’ campaign performance, reach their target audiences at scale, in a cost-efficient way. Job Opportunity: We are seeking a data scientist passionate about solving the challenging problems face in mobile advertising technology. You will have the opportunity to work on large scale data analysis and modeling to bring practical solutions to these problems. Responsibilities: - Performance optimization, Behavioral profiling, Audience segmentation and classification. - Develop and implement algorithms that work with large scale data to: - Produce audience based profiles. - Forecast and optimize return on online advertising spend. - Generate models used for user based ad ranking - Productize algorithms in a large scale data platform - Collaborate with product management and engineering to explore tradeoffs of performance and accuracy. Requirements: - MS/PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics or related fields is required. Recent Ph.D. graduates or Ph.D. candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. - 5+ years of experience; experience in advertising technology preferred. - Solid understanding of statistical modeling/machine learning/ data mining/ recommender systems concepts. - Strong analytical and quantitative problem solving ability - Understand, design and develop algorithms in a number of areas including (Bayesian Data - Analysis, Classification, Clustering, Regression, Collaborative Filtering) - Experience with behavioral targeting, online advertising/marketing, and/or user segmentation. - Demonstrated ability to deal with very large datasets. “Big Data” experience dealing with a distributed data storage and processing framework (Hadoop, Condor, Sun Grid, etc) - Strong knowledge of data structures, data modeling, replication and distribution data/object relational database mapping. - Experience with architecting, building and deploying reliable algorithms-based ad systems that work at scale is ideal. - Experience with R, MATLAB, SAS preferable. - A solid understanding of Hadoop, Hive and Map/Reduce programming. - Knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, ORACLE) and general SQL skills - Unix/Linux experience. Ability to shell script in bash or the like. - Production coding experience working with Java or C++. - Ability to use a scripting language Python/Perl/Ruby Contact: John Stevens / Redfish Technology Executive Recruiter, IT Division O: 208.788.8260 M: 208.720.5795 E: johns[at]redfishtech[dot]com L: http://www.linkedin.com/in/idahojohnstevens F: www.facebook.com/RedfishTech T: twitter.com/RedfishTech N: tinyurl.com/ylmtqqc/ W: www.redfishtech.com Leading Recruiters in IT and Clean Tech"

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