Blueshift empowers leading digital brands like Udacity, LendingTree, IAC and Paypal to automate customer engagement marketing using latest innovations in distributed data systems and AI. The company is co-founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado (acquired by Groupon), and was part of the founding team behind Kosmix (acquired by Walmart to become @WalmartLabs). Blueshift is backed by top tier Silicon Valley VCs like Storm Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners and NEA and is based in San Francisco.

Data Scientist

Blueshift is looking for bold and self motivated data scientists to join the team. You will have a chance to work on all aspects of designing and implementing novel algorithms, cutting edge learning architectures and statistical analysis.

Responsibilities

• Be a self motivated, bold thinker, innovator and builder of scalable AI/ML systems end to end and embrace full stack data science.

• You will design and develop techniques to power cutting edge AI algorithms over petabytes of data.

• You will work along side experienced technical and product teams with proven entrepreneurial success.

Requirements

• Expert level knowledge on different classes of learning algorithms, optimization and statistical analysis.

• Working proficiency with distributed systems like Spark, Kafka, HDFS, Cassandra, Hive and HBase.

• Masters/PhD in Computer Science or related disciplines.

• Strong proficiency with open source AI/ML software libraries.

• A real passion for thinking from first principles and building from ground up.

Perks

• Generous equity grants in fast growing startup.

• Full health/vision/dental insurance, catered lunches and competitive benefits

• Proximity to public transportation (BART / MUNI / Caltrain)

• Visa transfers (H1B, TN etc).