[Cse-jobs] FW: Machine Learning and Computer Vision Opportunities at A9.com

[Hawkins, Madeline]

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	From: Kraft, Adam <akraft at a9.com>
	To: kilian at wustl.edu <kilian at wustl.edu>
	Date: Monday, October 1, 2012 12:02:29 PM
	Subject: Machine Learning and Computer Vision Opportunities at A9.com

	 

	Please pass this along to your students:
	
	A9.com, a technology subsidiary of Amazon.com, is looking for highly motivated and talented Ph.D., Master's, and exceptional Bachelor's students interested in improving the quality of Amazon's Visual Search, Product Search, Cloud Search, and Advertising Technologies. A9 is located in downtown Palo Alto California, which holds a broad range of restaurants, entertainment, and public transportation. Full-time opportunities and internships are offered in the following areas:

	Visual Search: Our Visual Search team is focused on creatively working with advanced technologies to leverage our vast catalog of images in ways that will dramatically improve our customer’s search experience. You’ll participate in everything from investigating important and unsolved problems in computer vision to implementing, testing, and deploying full solutions in a production environment. We are seeking innovators who are committed to creating world-class products. You can check out our mobile application, Flow, available for both iOS and Android:

	http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flow-powered-by-amazon/id474664425

	http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008G318PE

	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.a9.flow

	Product Search: Product Search processes billions of queries for hundreds of millions of products on Amazon sites worldwide. Whenever a customer types in a query or browses through product categories, our service goes to work. You'll participate in designing, developing and deploying high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon.com customers every day. Projects range from building new distributed features for search using cutting-edge data structures and algorithms, to working on extracting interesting user behavior features from enormous data sets.

	Cloud Search: The future of search technology will be in the cloud. Participate in the development of a building a scalable search platform in the cloud.  You’ll get to interact with the same high-performance distributed engine as product search as well as work with many core AWS technologies like EC2, S3, SDB and CloudWatch. Projects include large scale auto-scaling algorithms and automatic index generation for arbitrary customer data.

	Advertising Technologies: A9.com powers advanced online advertising programs for some of the world's largest websites, including Amazon.com and other prime online properties. We supply the technology to show the right ad to the right customer at the right time. You’ll participate in building systems that process vast amounts of data using advanced algorithms in data mining, machine learning, and information retrieval as well as implement and enhance key components of the Advertising Technology platform. Our distributed web services are built on cutting edge scalable technologies such as Hadoop and Amazon's EC2 and S3 cloud services. 

	
	Desired Skills:

	*	Object-oriented design and programming experience in C/C++, Java or Python, preferably on a UNIX or Linux Platform. 
	*	Knowledge in the any of the following fields:

		*	Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, Mobile Development, Distributed Systems

	If you would like to apply, please send your resume to akraft at a9.com along with which position you would like to apply for (full-time or internship) as well as if you have any group preferences (Visual Search, Product Search, Advertising Technologies, Cloud Search).

	 

 

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