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August 30, 2006
Chief Scientist Needed For Mountain View's Aggregate Knowledge
Mountain View-based Aggregate Knowledge is on the look-out for a Chief Scientist. In its job post it boasts that it is VC-backed. That may be true but regulatory filings only indicate that the firm has raised $230K in Series A led by First Round Capital/angels. That might just be enough to cover the salary and Aeron chair for a Chief Scientist.
At any rate, we like what these cats are up to. When we reviewed them over on our sister site the a:c, we called it Alexa + eCommerce.
Aggregate Knowledge's Recommendation Engine claims to increase a site’s conversions and revenue per visit by giving users recommendations based on what users before them have done.
Paul Martino is CEO and CTO - he was founding CTO of Tribe.net. Angel investors are: Valerie Syme (Tribe.net, CompareNet), Josh Kopelman (First Round Capital, Half.com), Howard Morgan (First Round Capital, IdeaLab), Seth Goldstein (Root Markets, AttentionTrust), Richard Melmon (NetService Ventures, Electronic Arts), Matt Ocko (Archimedes Capital)
To apply, email: job-200422107@craigslist.org
Aggregate Knowledge is seeking a highly qualified Chief Scientist to head the algorithms, analytics, and tuning team. Aggregate Knowledge was recently financed by a top tier venture firm. More information about the company is available at www.aggregateknowledge.com.
The ideal candidate will
- Have a MS or PhD in mathematics, statistics, or computer science
- Have domain expertise in collaborative filtering and machine learning
- Have prior experience working with recommendation technologies
- Have experience with algorithm optimization
- Have experience with major retailer and/or media data
- Have excellent understanding of statistics, multi-variant testing, and regressions
- Have worked on consumer facing web applications
- Know how to design and write scalable code
- Understand Web 2.0 and web services concepts
- Be a self starter capable of contributing to team immediately
This is a full time position with very good benefits and stock participation. Location is San Mateo, CA.
Posted by Paul at August 30, 2006 12:33 AM
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