Research Engineer - Web Data Mining

Mountain View, CA; Full Time

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Connexus is the premier online, performance-driven marketing platform, offering a diversified, multi-channel approach to connect online advertisers with their target customers. Our innovative approach delivers scale, flexibility and performance to advertisers and publishers across a wide set of marketing vehicles, including display,lead generation, co-registration, proprietary consumer sites, search and email.

Connexus features a multi-channel network with extensive reach that delivers over 30 billion impressions monthly and 20 million leads and customers annually. Additionally, Connexus-owned and operated consumer sites aggregate over 17 million visitors, 20 million searches and 3 million registrations monthly across a broad set of consumer interests, such as promotional marketing and financial services.

Connexus, founded in 1999, is the union of Vendare Media and Netblue with offices in El Segundo and Mountain View, CA and New York City.

Firstlook is a business division of Connexus Corporation and is one of the leaders in Direct Search, a rapidly growing, $1 billion segment of the Internet advertising industry. We specialize in acquiring, developing and optimizing niche websites. Our staff of over 20 employees brings over 100 years of experience in the Domain Name and Internet Advertising industries.

Description

Join our optimization team and develop cutting-edge algorithms to support our high-volume Internet marketing applications.

We build systems to support our proprietary high-volume, high-uptime Internet marketing applications. Our systems need to make real time optimization decisions with partial data, support higher level decisions with reporting, track events with integrity, flexibly present content using a variety of technologies, and run reliably, even during upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune algorithms to optimize Internet marketing applications.
• Develop production quality implementations of algorithms, integrating your code with that of other software engineers.
• Understand business requirements. The task of the optimization team is to increase profits by drawing actionable business conclusions from vast amounts of raw data.

Requirements

• Fluency in applied mathematics, probability, statistics, and computer science
• 3+ years of hands-on design and coding experience in Java
• Ability to apply mathematics and computation to solve business problems

Pluses

• RDBS and SQL
• Javascript, HTML, and CGI programming
• Text mining

Education

A degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, or related field.

If this challenge is for you and you want to add to the success of our growing company, please submit a cover letter and resume to jobs@firstlook.com. Please put "Research Engineer - Web Data Mining" in the subject of your email.