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Affine Systems is a venture-backed startup looking for a Python programmer in San Francisco. Our core technology is a suite of computer vision algorithms (e.g., face recognition) for analyzing video that we have developed over the past few years. We use our vision platform to ingest and scan videos from sites like Youtube and Metacafe that are available for advertising and sell data about the video contents to advertisers who use it to build and optimize their online video campaigns. We are working with the major ad agencies and with several top brands. The reception to our service has been very enthusiastic because online video advertising is exploding and yet there are few tools available for advertisers to target their campaigns or even know what sorts of videos they are running against. This is especially a pain point for major brands because they are generally very sensitive about what sorts of content show up next to their ad. We are looking for an engineer to take leadership on the (primarily Python) platform built around our (primarily C++) vision code. The platform runs on Debian Linux and other open source software and is responsible for: * Ingesting videos and metadata from publishers * Interfacing with the vision code to process the videos and receive the results * Storing results in MySQL (or other data stores as appropriate) * Distributing and coordinating the above on Amazon EC2 * Maintaining our API used by clients to query for video data * Interacting with APIs of third-party partners as needed This platform is the backbone of our company, so we are hoping to find someone dedicated to building solid code who can make solid technical decisions. If this sounds exciting to you, please email me at bobby@affinesystems.com Thanks.