London, UK - full time.
Universal Pictures International - Junior Developer/Data Scientist,
International Research
We're certainly not a startup, but our department acts like one as much
as possible.
We're building tools to forecast, simulate, and model the box office
market.  We're developing simulations and models to give us estimates on
how the market responds to social media, weather, video games, et
cetera, and we're building web apps and ipad apps to present this
information to key people in a way they can use and understand.  We need
your help taking the project to the next level.
What you'll be doing:
1) Maintaining, debugging, and adding features to our existing apps
(browser and ipad) that help people configure and use our simulations.
2) Keeping our software on amazon ec2 online.
3) Help us build new tools to allow people to interface with our newer
models.
4) Help us develop new models and simulations that can give us deeper
insight into how the market behaves and that can respond to historical
and live data as it comes in (machine learning)
What we use:
* A lot of python (web.py) and javascript (jquery, jqtouch)
* amazon ec2 for running the simulations
* Whatever gets the job done.  We have code written in Racket, and we're
certainly not shy about experimenting with your favorite language.  (I'm
learning Haskell and plan to be using at work for some experiments, for
instance)
Who we're looking for:
This is primarily a programming position, so we're looking for someone
who is enthusiastic about coding and the tools they use, has an love of
clean code, new languages and technologies, and likes statistics.
Bonus points if you like film, functional languages and mathematics.
Interested?  My contact details are in my profile.  Let's get in touch
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