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Kensho: Boston, MA (Cambridge) FULL TIME, ONSITE
Kensho is exploring new applications of machine learning on financial and unstructured data, making machine driven insights faster, more accessible, intuitive and beautiful. We're small, hungry, and haven't made up our minds among sitting, standing or balance balls.
Machine Learning Engineers/Scientists:
Advanced machine learning, NLP or modeling techniques at scale. Notable research and data science experience is expected. Inside tip: Have multiple years of data science research, explain nuances of sophisticated models, think insightfully about data, and have an excellent nose for model optimization.
Software Engineers:
UI, infrastructure or SRE specialists. Inside tip: Share a project repo with us. High velocity problem-solving and thoughtful coding are essential.
Hiring process:
We're a small team who find traditional resumes unhelpful. We will interview a few demonstrably outlier candidates who share an impressive project, repo, Jupyter notebook, portfolio or similar via jobs@kensho.com or https://www.kensho.com/#/careers
Our Stack:
* python, pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, nltk, et al.
* Javascript, React, d3, canvas
Recently named one of the 5 hottest fintech companies by Fortune http://fortune.com/2016/06/27/five-hottest-fintechs/
Sorry, we do not work with agency recruiters.