Requirements

What You'll Be Doing

Drive the team's goals and technical direction to pursue opportunities that make your larger organization more efficient
Effectively communicate complex features and systems in detail
Understand industry & company-wide trends to help assess & develop new technologies
Partner & collaborate with organization leaders to help improve the level of performance of the team & organization
Identify new opportunities for the larger organization & influence the appropriate people for staffing/prioritizing these new ideas
Suggest, collect and synthesize requirements and create an effective feature roadmap
Develop highly scalable classifiers and tools leveraging machine learning, data regression, and rules-based models
Adapt standard machine learning methods to best exploit modern parallel environments (e.g. distributed clusters, multicore SMP, and GPU)

Experience in driving large cross-functional/industry-wide engineering efforts
Significant experience in programming languages (Python, C++, Java, or R) with a technical background
Significant experience in mentoring/influencing senior engineers across organizations
Significant experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, NLP, data mining, or artificial intelligence

B.S. Computer Science or related technical field
Experience in shipping products to millions of customers or have started a new line of product
Experience with Hadoop/HBase/Pig or MapReduce/Sawzall/Bigtable/Hive/Spark