We are looking for a pragmatic, creative, productive contractor with a strong track record in text classification, to help us improve our algorithms for statistical classification of textual data. Whoever we hire needs to be able to work well in a loosely coupled team, communicate well online, and manage their own time and (short term) priorities. Experience in web-coordinated open source development is a plus. Breaking this down:
Pragmatic: Whoever we hire needs to be continually guided in their decisions by anticipated user benefits, development feasibility, scalability, etc. Academic rigor, cool technology, development methods, etc. are all good, but our first priorities are getting things working, keeping them working, and making them work better.
Creative: We're doing exploratory development, and we'll often need to find cost-effective ways to solve problems that haven't been solved before. Furthermore we'll often have opportunities to address potential new user benefits. We need someone who has the mental flexibility and judgment to identify these problems and opportunities, and adapt available technology and redefine our development goals to address them.
Productive: We need someone who can solve real problems in a timely way. We aren't requiring specific language skills, since the statistical modeling is fairly separate from our web service code, and may anyway end up implemented in whatever language has the best libraries and/or performance for a given task. However, candidates need to be able to work well with a fast-moving development team.
Track record in text classification: We need someone with a demonstrated ability to design text classification algorithms. We are doing multi-label classification of diverse textual data, using positive and negative examples chosen by a user. Ideally we’d like to have a very responsive system that can interact with the user to focus the training.
Please email your resume to . Recent graduates are welcome — we hire on merit, not seniority. Please be sure to direct us to current examples of your work. If there’s a possible match, we’ll contact you.
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