Software Engineer - Data Science Knewton -
New York, NY
Knewton is an education startup funded by highprofile investors including Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman Located in the heart of Manhattan Knewton has built the worlds most powerful adaptive learning engine and is making an engaging and interactive education available to all Knewton has been recognized as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos and one of the 25 best places to work by Crains New York Business This is an outstanding opportunity to Work with and learn from the industriess best Engineers Contribute to key engineering decisions regarding technical direction of the team Quickly build world class consumer facing products that see daylight Become an industry luminary We are Open Sourcing our projectscodebase Engineers must have A track record of writing highquality elegant code A willingness to learn and use Python and Java The potential and desire to rise into positions of technical leadership A passion for transforming education Not required but highly desired are Experience with the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) Experience in machine learning and data mining and with the R statistical package Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Unix Experience with opensource technologies Experience with big data processing using NoSQL techniques like Cassandra Hadoop Hive Perks include Competitive salary stock options and excellent benefits As much paid vacation and personal as you need to take Flexible hours Highquality equipment (default setup a Mac laptop with a giant monitor) A wellstocked employee kitchen coffee bar The opportunity to use cuttingedge machine learning and engineering techniques to transform and democratize education Knewton Inc 100 Fifth Ave New York NY 10011 httpwwwknewtoncom httpwwwknewtoncom
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