Job Description

ABOUT THIS JOB

JOB TYPE: FULL-TIME WITH STOCK OPTIONS

INDUSTRY: MACHINE LEARNING, ADTECH, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT / ENGINEERING

COMPANY SIZE: UNDER 50 PEOPLE

COMPANY TYPE: PRIVATE

OFFICE LOCATION: BELLEVUE, WA (HYBRID MODEL)

COGNITIV BUILDS CUSTOM PROGRAMMATIC AD BUYING ALGORITHMS USING THE LATEST ADVANCES IN DEEP LEARNING. OUR PLATFORM NEURALMIND ™ ENABLES US TO OFFER CUSTOM ALGORITHMS TO ALL OUR CLIENTS, ADVERTISERS TO BUILD CUSTOM ALGORITHMS FOR ALL OF THEIR BRANDS AND ROI-TYPES, AND AGENCIES TO OFFER MORE SOPHISTICATED TARGETING SOLUTIONS TO ITS PROGRAMMATIC CLIENTS. NEURALMIND™ CONSIDERS THOUSANDS OF INPUTS AT ONCE – INCLUDING CONTEXT, TIME, USER HABITS, WEATHER, AVAILABLE INVENTORY, AND EXPECTED WIN PRICE – ALL TO OPTIMIZE RESULTS FROM AD BUYING, AUDIENCE BUILDING, AND SEARCH ADVERTISING.

OVERVIEW

THE FEATURES TEAM WITHIN THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GROUP AT COGNITIV IS A HIGHLY VISIBLE TEAM THAT PLAYS A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE SUCCESS OF OUR PRODUCT AND CLIENTS. OUR TEAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING NEW FEATURES FOR USE IN COGNITIV’S DEEP LEARNING MODELS. THIS INVOLVES USING STANDARD SOFTWARE AND FEATURE ENGINEERING PRACTICES AS WELL AS IMPLEMENTING THE LATEST AND GREATEST IN DEEP LEARNING RESEARCH. YOU WILL WORK SIDE-BY-SIDE WITH MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH SCIENTISTS, SOFTWARE ENGINEERS, AND OTHERS.

WE ARE SEEKING OUT EXCEPTIONAL ENGINEERS WHO WANT TO BUILD TECH IN THESE AREAS WITH A RAPIDLY GROWING COMPANY. WE BUILD WORLD-CLASS SYSTEMS IN NOVEL SPACES AND REQUIRE BRIGHT, CREATIVE, AND MOTIVATED ENGINEERS WHO WANT TO DO THE SAME. IF YOU ARE EXCITED BY WORKING ON CUTTING EDGE DEEP LEARNING APPLICATIONS AND OWNING FEATURES FROM CONCEPT TO PRODUCTION, PLEASE APPLY.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• USE ENGINEERING BEST PRACTICES COMBINED WITH MACHINE LEARNING DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE TO DESIGN AND DEVELOP NEW FEATURES FOR USE IN DEEP LEARNING MODELS

• ASSESS PERFORMANCE OF FEATURES BY BUILDING DATASETS AND DESIGNING AND EXECUTING WELL-CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS

• COLLABORATE WITH MULTIPLE TEAMS TO PRODUCTIONIZE FEATURES, INCLUDING DEPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE PLANNING

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• BACHELORS DEGREE IN A RELEVANT FIELD (E.G. COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING)

• UNDERSTANDING OF CORE MACHINE LEARNING AND DEEP LEARNING CONCEPTS (E.G. LINEAR/LOGISTIC REGRESSION, DECISION TREES, NEURAL NETWORKS)

• 3+ YEARS INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE IN ENGINEERING ROLES IN MACHINE LEARNING AND/OR DATA SCIENCE/ANALYTICS

• PROVEN TRACK RECORD OF DELIVERING QUALITY PRODUCTS BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND AS PART OF A TEAM

• EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE PYTHON DATA SCIENCE ECOSYSTEM (E.G. NUMPY, SCIPY, SCIKIT-LEARN, JUPYTER)

• ADVANCED PROFICIENCY IN RELEVANT PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (E.G. PYTHON, SCALA, C#)

• CLOUD EXPERIENCE (E.G. AWS, AZURE, GCP)

• SQL EXPERIENCE

• GIT EXPERIENCE

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• MASTERS OR PH.D. IN A RELEVANT FIELD (E.G. COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, ENGINEERING)

• EXPERIENCE WITH ONE OR MORE DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK (E.G. PYTORCH, TENSORFLOW, MXNET)

• NOSQL EXPERIENCE

• AWS EXPERIENCE

• EXPERIENCE WITHIN THE BIG DATA ECOSYSTEM (E.G. SPARK, FLINK, HIVE, PRESTO)

Company Description

Cognitiv is an artificial intelligence marketing company that developed and optimized the leading custom AI that delivers adaptive algorithmic advertising.