Machine Learning Engineer

What is RedBeacon?

Redbeacon is one of the most celebrated new startups in Silicon Valley! It was founded by 3 ex-Googlers and has taken the top prize at some of the world's most prestigious startup competitions such as TechCrunch50, Business Insider's Startup 2010, and the Silicon Valley Business Journal's Emerging Technology Award. We've also been named among San Francisco Magazine's "Best of the Bay." Redbeacon is venture funded with financing from leading VC firms Mayfield Fund and Venrock.

We're on a multi-year journey to change the way people find and book local services on the Web. Our San Mateo-based company was started to help people find the right local business or professional to handle virtually any local service need. At Redbeacon, you can request a service (e.g., mover, carpet cleaner, photographer, etc.), and local professionals will receive your request and submit price quotes and appointment times. You'll be shown profile information about each service provider, the price they'll charge for the job, their ratings and reviews, and which friends or professional organizations endorse them. When you see an option you like, you can accept the price quote and schedule the appointment online at the touch of a button.

What will you do?

As we scale up our team and expand our business to new markets, we're looking to hire a rock star machine learning engineer. Are you him/her?

As a very early member of the engineering team, you will be instrumental in helping us to launch great features. As part of the job, you'll design and develop solutions to address problems such as text classification and understanding, collaborative filtering/recommendation, spam detection, query log analysis and ranking. And you'll be working closely with other world class engineers to transform the local services space and create huge value and impact along the way.

What are we looking for?

Requirements

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science with related fields specialization from competitive school
• Experience in building systems to process and collect large amount of data
• 3-5 years of building machine learning systems that solve real world problems
• Previous experience working in a small team / startup environment

Big pluses:

• Deep understanding of NLP
• Contributed to open source projects
• Proficiency programming in Python

Please send us a resume at jobs+ml@redbeacon.com if you're interested in joining our team!