Machine Learning / Data Scientist, Search Relevance

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Job date: 2014-10-15
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Company : Glassdoor 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:

Looking for your next challenge? How about helping us disrupt a $90B+ talent acquisition market! Glassdoor is the world’s fastest growing career community with more than 25M members and thousands of business customers and our mission is helping people everywhere find jobs and companies they love.

We're looking for a Data Scientist specializing in Machine Learning to be part of our search team and help us match job seekers with great opportunities. You will create predictive models, extract insights from data, find patterns in human behavior, and use your analytical skills to take our search product to the next level.

Key Responsibilities:
Create predictive models to estimate user engagement on job listings
Create personalized recommendations for various types of content using content similarity and collaborative filtering based on user behavior
Improve relevance ranking for job listings within search
Increase user engagement and search revenue
Work with software engineers to put predictive models in production

Key Qualifications:
Hands-on experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms for regression, classification, and clustering
Hands-on experience analyzing large data sets - how do you define big data?
Hands-on experience using structured and unstructured data, ideally in a HDFS-based store using some variation of MapReduce, Hive, Pig, or a SQL interface
Proficient in Python or R. Coding in C, C++ or Java is a strong plus.
Familiar with A/B testing methodology and test analysis
Familiar with classical statistics and time series analysis
Agile, action-oriented, quick thinker: you can deliver preliminary results fast by making simplifying assumptions, and take time to dive deeper if our business priorities allow and if the problem demands more scientific rigor
M.S. or Ph.D. in one of the following: Computer Science (with focus on artificial intelligence, data mining, or machine learning), Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Particle Physics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, or another quantitative scientific field

Why Glassdoor?

We truly believe that where you work matters and, as a career community, we know a thing or two about what makes employees happy. So join us on our mission – we intend to have a heck of a good time as we get there!

Competitive salary
Employee stock options
Time off when you need it – unlimited vacation days!
100% company paid medical/dental/vision/life coverage (and we even pay 90% of dependent coverage).
Free daily lunch with fully stocked break rooms with free food and drinks
Dog friendly office (with a few dog-free zones if you are so inclined)
Onsite yoga and meditation room
Company and team volunteer days
Mac or PC – you choose!
Sunny Sausalito offices just a block from the water
3-Time Winner “Best Places to Work” in the North Bay, (2012, 2013 and 2014)
Love the active life? We have company and team outings as well as an on-site gym, kayaks/standup paddle-boards, sports teams and more

This position reports to the Sr. Director of Search and is based in Sausalito, CA (minutes from San Francisco, just over the Golden Gate Bridge). Relocation support is available. Compensation will be competitive and commensurate with experience, including equity in an early stage startup backed by top-tier VCs.


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