Los Altos: Machine Learning Scientist. Full Time (H1B okay) - Ness Computing <a href="http://likeness.com" >http://likeness.com</a>
We are machine learning specialists who work together on real-world challenges. Everyone on our team takes ownership of problem-solving, from ideas all the way through implementation. Our favorite types of problems are the ones that others consider impossible.
Everything the ML team builds is product-driven to solve a specific customer pain. While we are looking for people who are experts in a specific area, we believe that the best solutions come from collaboration. We expect people to apply their expertise to domains they have not previously worked in.
We use principled machine learning approaches, and encode product-level intuition and needs, but are comfortable with using heuristics to get the last mile.
You should be familiar with recent ML literature.
Bonus points if you have a deep background in one of the following:
+  information retrieval / search ranking, natural language processing
+  collaborative filtering, ontology management / data normalization
+  data mining packages such as Weka, SAS, EViews, Matlab and R
+  "big-data" frameworks such as Hadoop, HBase, or Cassandra
If what we are doing sounds interesting to you, please drop me a line.
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