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AAA) Senior Software Engineer / Research Scientist - Machine Learning…$170-$240K base, plus bonus New York, NY The Role: The R&D Machine Learning group at this prestigious NY client is looking for experienced software engineers and researchers to join and contribute to a variety of projects at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing and computational linguistics. Our group develops applications such as sentiment analysis of financial news, market impact indicators, social media analytics, topic clustering and classification, question answering, recommendation systems, risk analysis and predictive models of market behavior. The ideal candidate would have background in mathematics and statistics as well as machine learning and natural language processing and would be able to contribute immediately to the group's projects. The team members play a major role in the design and implementation of some of the most innovative and critical applications for them. Qualifications: Strong C++ and STL expertise Knowledge of Boost or similar libraries a plus Strong Computer Science fundamentals (algorithms, data structures) Background in natural language processing and/or machine learning Mathematical background (probability & statistics) a strong plus Industry experience developing multithreaded applications Strong communications and interpersonal skills a must Knowledge of SQL and standard RDBMSs a plus BBB) Senior Server Software Engineer – User Interface, Web & Mobile Applications (2 Open Positions) - Wilmington MA - $120k range How often do you get to write an enterprise application suite from scratch?! We are at the very beginning of the migration our well-established product line to a new set of technologies. We are working with best-of-breed open source layers to build a modern application server suite to support our web applications, mobile applications and external system integrations. Our server stack is based in Java, Spring & Hibernate. Our web front-end will utilize HTML5, JavaScript, Angular, JQuery UI & JSON. We are also building a cross-platform mobile solution using a hybrid approach using similar technologies. Your experience building cross-platform mobile applications would also be a great help. A software engineer joining this talented team has the opportunity to work with a modern software development framework in a dynamic, fast-paced environment – and contribute to the development of both our web and mobile application suites. Requirements: · Bachelor's or Master's degree in the computer science or related field · At least 5 years’ experience developing large-scale enterprise systems · Ability to solve problems quickly and completely · A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts · Excellent communication skills · Ability to multi-task and stay organized in a dynamic work environment · A positive attitude · Expert knowledge of data structures. · Expert knowledge of maintaining and debugging live software systems. · Significant experience with Java, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, JSON, SQLite and Angular is HIGHLY desired · Experience with Spring, Hibernate, C# - a plus Functions: · Designs and codes superior technical solutions · Easily recognizes system deficiencies and implements effective solutions · Communicates and enforces coding standards · Reviews work of team · Understands complex database concepts as well as the implications of different database designs · Creates well designed, reusable objects · Understands the benefits of the various design methodologies and object oriented environments · Facilitates effective team interaction. C CCC) Full relo, base $150-250K with Bonus - NYC (will sponsor if less than 2 yrs left on visa) Big Data Software Development… The Role: Our New York client is looking for a software developer who has experience in interactive analytics over Big Data to assist in the design and development of their Data Model and Query Platform. The goal is to structure data in forms that make it amenable for analysis and to provide a framework that enables interactive analytics over this data. This is a unique opportunity to join a talented group of engineers in start-up like environment, working with cutting-edge technologies on a greenfield project. In addition, this developer opportunity will serve as a liaison with the open source community directing the future evolution of the technology in ways that will benefit my client, and you!. Responsibilities: Being the lead developer and point person for interactive analytics over big data Collaborate with application engineering teams and other stakeholders to understand client use cases for financial analytics. Evaluate, adopt and where necessary, build services and frameworks for interactive distributed query processing over large volumes of financial data. Collaborate with infrastructure teams to integrate the analytics framework into the Big Data stack. Big Data Experience Required: Passion and interest for all things distributed - file systems, databases and computational frameworks A strong background in interactive query processing is a must; you can speak to the shortcomings of the map-reduce paradigm when it comes to interactive and iterative analytics and have thought of ways to overcome it. Hands on programming and development experience; excellent problem solving skills; proven technical leadership and communication skills Have a solid track record building large scale, fault-tolerant systems over the whole lifecycle of the project; you have spent significant time and effort observing large-scale systems in production and learning from it. Strong understanding of how the various technical pieces fit together: you can explain why you made certain architectural/design decisions and chose certain tools/products. Have made active contributions to open source projects like Hadoop, Berkeley Spark/Shark or Cassandra. Technical Stack Required: 5+ years of programming experience (Java and Python on Linux) 2+ years of hands-on experience with key-value store technologies such as HBase and/or Cassandra. 2+ years of experience with the Hadoop stack - MapReduce, Cascading or Pig. 1+ years of experience with analytic frameworks such as Impala, Phoenix (for HBase) and the Berkeley Analytics stack (Spark/Shark) Experience with data analysis in Python using frameworks such as Pandas and NumPy is a very strong plus. Prior experience with query processing in a distributed RDBMS such as Aster Data or Vertica is a plus. DDD) >>>>>>>>>>Hadoop Infrastructure Engineer…A rare opportunity…. The Role: New York City major client is looking for a senior Hadoop infrastructure engineer to join its Foundational Services - Hadoop Infrastructure team. This group is responsible for building very low-latency systems that host massive amounts of datasets. The team provides the core infrastructure and service framework to manage, access and analyze current and historical datasets in a distributed environment to our varied applications. It deals with challenges of storage, low latency retrievals, high volume requests, scalability and high availability. We are currently engaged in building out a Hadoop infrastructure to manage our ever increasing amounts of data. We are looking for someone who enjoys building large-scale data systems with the challenge of low-latency requirements and large storage capabilities. An open-source outlook is useful, as our infrastructure is open source… Ideally, someone with systems and Dev. Ops. experience with a "big data" bent. Responsibilities: Automate operation, installation and monitoring of Hadoop ecosystem components in our open source infrastructure stack; specifically: HBase, HDFS, Map/Reduce, Yarn, Oozie, Pig, Hive, Tez, Kafka, Storm Evaluate Hadoop infrastructure requirements and design/deploy solutions (high availability, big data clusters, elastic load tolerance, etc.) Create productive models for integrating internal application teams and vendors with our infrastructure Do performance analysis and capacity planning for our clusters Troubleshoot and debug Hadoop ecosystem run-time issues Provide developer and operations documentation Recommend OS and hardware level optimizations Qualifications: Proven experience building and scaling out Hadoop based or Unix hosted database infrastructure for an enterprise 2+ years experience of Hadoop administration or a strong and diverse background of distributed cluster management experience 2+ years of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc. system configuration experience (or incredible quality shell scripting for systems management -- error handling, idempotency, configuration management) 2+ years of Dev. Ops. experience or System Administration experience (be conversant in Unix networking and C system calls) Having used continuous integration (Jenkins or Buildbot) for at least one released software project is a plus Experience in Java, Python or Ruby development is a plus (including testing with standard test frameworks and dependency management systems, knowledge of Java garbage collection fundamentals) Open source experience is a plus (a well curated blog, upstream accepted contribution or community presence) EEE) - Solutions Engineer Big Data is exploding as organizations across the world are deploying Apache Hadoop to derive business meaningful insights. Customers are starving for Data Platform Engineers who are energetic Pre-Sales Engineers that have and hone a diverse range of talents, beyond the technical. Equally important, nothing can substitute for the hands-on demonstration when it comes to closing a deal, therefore deep technical skills are a must. As a Solution Engineer you will utilize your strong technical, business competencies and customer service orientation to provide the highest level of business and technical consultation to sales teams, prospects and customers to support sales goals. You will work on cross-functional teams including Sales, Product Management, Product Marketing, Services, Business Development, Training and Engineering to create solutions that provides the immense business value. You will become intimately acquainted with customers’ business requirements, technical needs, systems, environment and service history, enabling you to present targeted business solutions. A successful Solution Engineer has the heart of a salesperson wrapped in the mind of an IT pro. Essential Functions: Educate the prospects in how their business priorities (use cases) map to Hadoop solutions and integrate with the ecosystem Understand the customer’s customer, what business each of the business units are in and their criterion for success Interface with account and partner teams to share account insight and solicit inclusion for increasing account penetration, revenues and deal size You will utilize your excellent technical and relationship building skills in working with prospects, customers, vendors, partners and sales to ensure that optimum systems solutions are provided to customers. Understand prospect “insiders” and how competition sells to the account. Develop insights from this and from public sources Start the journey of being a trusted and business advisor to the community and your customer base by balancing customers success criterion with clients aspirations Understand the vast immature and mature Hadoop ecosystem unfolding and apply to your customers’ business priorities Grow your vast technical acumen on Apache Hadoop, the ecosystem and customer critical and specific solutions Stay ahead and on top of all new product features and fixes Provide technical consultation and education to the Sales team by keeping them apprised on new product information Limited management supervision and direction is provided. This individual will operate independently and drive results as a team and as an individual Ability to pass US Government security clearances highly desirable Identify customer needs and requirements Define all of the elements of a customer's technical computing environments Answer customer questions Provide technical support to current customer and 'try-and-buy' test projects Define customer acceptance criteria for 'try-and-buy' evaluation projects Work with Sales to respond to RFP's Attend customer calls with the Sales Representative Provide technical consultation and disseminate product information to the sales team Excellent written and verbal communication skills Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills are needed in orderwork successfully with prospects, customers, and cross functional teams to meet performance goals Account management and project management experience Strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them in a customer-facing environment. Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices Creative approach to problem solving Travel to the prospective customer's sites as necessary Excellent Prospect and Partner presentation skills Desired Skills and Experience: Experience with core enabling technologies, networking, Unix, Linux, Window operating systems, building and managing compute farms, scripting and java programming, and/or data warehousing solutions. Experience using and developing infrastructure solutions including but not limited to: Apache Hadoop, (HDFS, MapReduce, Common), Hive, Pig, Sqoop,Oozie, Ambari, HCatalog, Zookeeper, and Flume Experience with enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions including but not limited to: HBase, Cassandra, Riak, MongoDB, etc. Experience with Enterprise Data Warehouses including but not limited to: Teradata, Netezza,Exadata, MSSQL PDW and GreenPlum FFF) Sr. Software Engineer-Search Ranking and Relevance! The Role: The R&D Search group is looking for an experienced software engineer to join us in building Machine Learning based models for improving ranking for a federated search engine. Our client provides a single interface to search through millions of data points from dozens of structured and unstructured data stores including time-sensitive content (like news or events) and Natural Language Question Answering engines. We are exploring state of the art methods to learn and achieve optimal ranking and interleaving of results retrieved from such disparate sources. Our current initiatives include: Researching and implement highly scalable and efficient ranking models for a federated search system. Building query and user-intent classifiers using statistical methods. *Dynamically identify and boost trending and time-sensitive content. Exploring using session context and user behavior to improve search results. For this role we are looking for engineers who can immediately contribute to these projects and keep up with the state of the art in learning-to-rank, user intent classification and search engine evaluation metrics. Qualifications: 3+ years of industry experience in production-level software development using C++ (preferred) or Java. Very strong fundamentals in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval. *Industry experience in solving search/discoverability related problems such as learning-to-rank, intent classification, query reformulation, recommendations or personalization. Experience with a Lucene-based search system (SOLR/ Elastic Search) is a plus. GGG) Director of Research & Development We are now seeking candidates to fill a Director of Research & Development opening in Cambridge, MA with compensation up to $200K base and Bonus for a 150-person, private, growing company… You must be US Citizen, a technology guru turned leader and a dynamic, systems-level player. (If not for you please consider forwarding to your qualified friends) You will lead the development of the newest additions to perhaps the world's most widely-deployed text analytics suite. Responsibilities Serve as the R&D team's product owner, deciding the most valuable work to do sprint-by-sprint to fulfill larger goals set in collaboration with the VP, Engineering, CTO and other members of the executive and product management teams. As technical owner, you will Decide how the work is done to fulfill research and engineering architectural vision facilitating by whom it's done to effectively engage the entire team and implementing specific items of work (e.g., stories, bugs) if needed. Serve as personnel manager of the members of the R&D team, mentoring, developing, managing and recruiting its members. Serve as a key member of the engineering management team advising on department-wide decisions. Engage with the broader marketplace as well as current and prospective customers to inform R&D strategic goals Advise other teams on R&D-related topics as needed Oversee technical portions of externally funded R&D projects. Represent the organization to the research community, including through occasional service to it (e.g., as a reviewer or organizer) Support the establishment of teams to productize technology spun out of the R&D team Collaborate with internal development infrastructure providers Qualifications PhD or equivalent in NLP, Information Retrieval, Computer Science or a similar field, including respected publications 6+ years implementing production-quality, multi-threaded software (e.g., in Java) 3+ years managing a team of engineers building production-quality software products Eagerness to lead and serve a collaborative, consensus-driven team Desire to solve customers' problems through clean and creative solutions From our previous postings; a) In Boston or any of the top 20 cities in US: you must be able to travel Monday thru Thursday€¦7 weeks off, top pay and benefits€¦Sign on and annual bonus€¦ SaaS Salesforce.com Service Cloud Senior Technical Manager Senior Manager Manager/Senior Manager Lead Architect Cloud Architect Business & Systems Integration Cloud Manager/Senior Manager Business & Systems Integration Cloud Consultant Marketing Manager Business and Systems Integration - Cloud Architect Life Sciences - SaaS Cloud Architecture Manager SaaS Business & Systems Integration Cloud Consultant SaaS Business & Systems Integration Cloud Manager/Senior Manager Solutions Architect - Manager US CITIZEN, Green Card or EAD tied to Green Card process, open to 80% travel and completed bachelors degree CONSULTANTS $85 - $120K plus up to 10% bonus €“ sign on bonus $5k MANAGERS $120K - $150K plus up to 22% bonus €“ sign on bonus $5-10k b) a sales opening - red hot client, east of Boston - in the inbound marketing, Web, and lead generation space, a unique consulting firm with practice areas in digital-marketing campaigns, Web presence and sales and marketing automation in New England. They are seeking an experienced sales person to participate in a ground floor opportunity€¦Although doing over $600K a year, 4-year-old company is offering founders equity with a dynamic package! Are you a "hunter" who has passion for the deal, who can relate to and understand the customer as you close the deal! Love selling? Love to win, and have true win-win attitude for both the customer and you?....Then our client would love to speak to you! More details if you ask me for them. c) Cambridge sw developer opening $100k-$115k; a health-oriented client, needs to fill 3 opening, with these skills: Reports to Manager IT seeking Strong SQL SSIS SSRS 70% reporting services data 30% coding in .net C# Designs, develops, and modifies software applications. Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis and remediation. Designs, plans, and coordinates work efforts. Be familiar with a variety of the concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Perform a variety of tasks. May lead and direct the work of others. • Develops software specifications. • Develops and schedules software improvements and upgrades. • Codes according to specifications. • Runs and monitors performance tests on new and existing programs for the purposes of correcting errors, isolating areas for improvement, and general debugging. • Performs analysis of test results and delivers solutions to problem areas. • Assists in the development and maintenance of user manuals and guidelines. • Writes programming scripts to enhance functionality and/or appearance of company Web site and/or related Web applications as necessary. • Develops SQL databases for data storage and reporting; • Integrates data from multiple data structures and a variety of sources into SQL tables. d - 1) Wilmington MA - Java Web UI Developer - long-time client - "one of the country's 50 Most Engaged Work Places" - looking for folks with: 3+ years of experience working with Java and J2EE technologies Fluent in Java and OO design Exceptional analytical skills and problem solving ability Very strong, delivery focused work ethic that takes ownership and produces results Agility to multitask and switch tracks as needed Working knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript/JQuery Ability to function in an agile team environment using Scrum framework Strong verbal and written communication skills More ways to impress them... High volume customer facing e-commerce web applications Creating and consuming RESTful services using JSON Spring / Struts2 / Hibernate/ Ehcache Awareness of common eCommerce tools and methodologies (A/B testing, SEO friendly site design, Site Analytics etc.) Ask me for the compete spec when you submit your current resume in MSWord format d - 2) ALSO, at the same client; a Release Engineer with as many of these skills as possible (but at least 4) - Ant script, CVS, Git, VSS, Java, Jenkins configurations and support, rock solid Linux skills required, Python script, shell script, SoftwareDevelopmentLifeCycle. Also: Knack for cultivating and maintaining supportive relationships within the team and the enterprise at large Know-how to customize Bugzilla and RT, and integrate with build processes and issue tracking processes Experience with repository codes systems such as CVS, GIT, VSS Working Knowledge of ASP, .NET, css , HTML, XML, javascript, Spring Framework Advance configurations on JBOSS, TOMCAT, and APACHE with virtual host, multiple Data Sources and hosts, multiple instances, clustering, TOMCAT Manager, JBOSS Remote deploy and tuning on JVM Ask me for the compete spec when you submit your current resume in MSWord format e) Hadoop Systems Architect…New York region…sometimes in Boston area…need 50% travel A 2.5 year-old client and already has sales over $100 million, and has $150 million in funding! They expect to be at $1 BILLION when they go public in 2016…Want in? Base of $130-$165K, with up to $60K bonus so possible $220K at plan…PLUS EQUITY. Most important talents needed: 
 More than five years of Professional Services (customer facing) experience architecting large scale storage, data center and /or globally distributed solutions 2+ years designing and deploying 3 tier architectures or large-scale Hadoop solutions Ability to understand and translate customer requirements into technical requirements Experience implementing data transformation and processing solutions using Apache PIG Experience designing data queries against data in the HDFS environment using tools such as Apache Hive Experience implementing MapReduce jobs Experience setting up multi-node Hadoop clusters Strong experience implementing software and/or solutions in the enterprise Linux or Unix environment Ask me for the complete spec when you send me your up-to-date resume in MSWord format. Thanks f) C# .Net developer at Reading client - analytics company - recently bought out by a big firm (right off I-93) - $95K-$105K…10% Bonus - short list of important qualifications: A minimum of three years of application development experience is required. Working knowledge of ASP.NET, C#, .NET Framework and SQL Server. Additional programming languages and technologies a plus. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Systems or other related field. Proven experience designing and building Web applications using the following technologies: Microsoft.NET (4.5/4.0, 3.5, 2.0,1.1), C#, ASP.NET, MVC, Web Services, WCF, JavaScript, AJAX, JQuery, XML, SOAP, CSS and XSLT. 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and developing software applications. 2+ years of experience with data and event driven architecture. REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS: Languages and Other skills: .NET Framework (2.0/3.5/4.0/4.5), ASP.NET, MVC Framework, C#, VB, JavaScript, XML, T-SQ, VBScript, AJAX, JQuery, Entity Framework, LINQ. Databases: MS SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MS Access Tools: Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010, SQL Server 2005/2008, SVN, MS Vision and MS Project. Ask me for complete specifications when you submit your resume in MSWord format to patrick@e-placers.com Patrick Mertens Pure Placements of New England 103 Union Street, Suite 303 Watertown MA 02472-2524 ph. - 617-710-0471 http://www.e-placers.com Mass. Registration #R2683 http://e-placers.blogspot.com/ Skype me at patrickedwardmertens Twitter follow me http://twitter.com/eplacers If you have not already done so, consider joining our LinkedIn network using ID = patrick@e-placers.com