Position Title: Intern
Job Description
Pursuing a degree in the humanities, but want to get involved in a Silicon Valley startup? Kosmix is looking for a student who is an expert in Web-surfing and can efficiently and accurately analyze large amounts of information. This position will require at least 20 flexible hours per week.
Qualifications
Prefer students working towards a degree in a non-technical field
Demonstrated academic passion reflected in coursework and grade performance
Expert in Web surfing and searching
Self-motivated worker, who can act independently
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Intern."
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Position Title: Product Manager
Job Description
The product manager will be responsible for the definition and development of all customer-facing aspects of the new service. The Product Manager will work with cross functional teams including engineering, web design, and marketing to develop the service. The job requires someone who has insight into online user experience, who enjoys building products, and is focused on execution.
Qualifications
BA/BS MBA desirable
Product management or category management experience in the consumer Internet space desirable.
Experience working with cross-functional teams esp. those including engineering.
Business development and partnership management skills are a plus.
Strong work ethic, flexibility, good initiative, proven attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to work well within a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment is required.
As a start-up that prides itself on innovation, we're comfortable making bets that have huge upside. Hiring is no exception. So if you think you're a super-star, we'd like to hear from you even if you do not meet all the above requirements.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Product Manager."
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Position Title: User-Interface Designer
Job Description
Technology alone won't solve user problems. We are looking for UI designer with a passion for understanding user behavior, singling out the most painful user problems, creating innovative solutions based on complex technologies, and, after months of iterating and testing, delivering the ultimate solution. If you want to work in a small startup environment where you have free-reign to break the current search mold, then this role is perfect for you.
Manage all aspects of the user-centric design process, including discovery, creating, testing, and production
Work closely with product management to create product features
Create a user model based on extensive user testing of existing functionality and prototypes
Develop high-quality mockups based on user feedback
Test designs with users
Deliver high-quality HTML to engineering
Qualifications
Expert HTML/CSS skills
Knowledge of at least one technology for rapid prototyping (JavaScript, Flash, etc.)
Experience in paper-prototyping, wireframing, and other iterative design methodologies
A portfolio that demonstrates experience in designing usable, useful, and enjoyable user experiences on the Web
A solid sense of visual design
Strong technical background is a major plus
Background in human-computer interaction, interaction design, or related field. Graduate degree preferred.
As a start-up that prides itself on innovation, we're comfortable making bets that have huge upside. Hiring is no exception. So if you think you're a super-star, we'd like to hear from you even if you do not meet all the above requirements.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "UI Designer."
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Software Engineer - Storage Systems (Position Title: Member of Technical Staff)
Job Description
Responsible for architecting, designing and implementing a storage layer for large volumes of data. The job encourages innovation and smart engineering.
Qualifications
BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields (preferably in database systems OR operating systems)
5+ years of industry experience
Programming wizardry in C/C++/Java/scripting (Perl, Python)
Extensive UNIX system and network programming experience
Strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies
Working knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code
Strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry
Past experience in building high-performance storage systems is a major plus.
Past experience in building high-performance real-time systems is a major plus.
Most important, we want self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through their creations.
Strong work ethic, flexibility, good initiative, proven attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to work well within a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment is required.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Software Engineer - Storage Systems."
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Software Engineer - Algorithms and Engineering (Position Title: Member of Technical Staff)
Job Description
Invent, design, implement and deploy high performance algorithms to improve quality of results, ranking metrics, data mining tools across our search platform. The work may also involve rapid prototyping of fundamentally new algorithmic ideas. The job encourages innovation and smart engineering.
Qualifications
BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
Programming wizardry in C/C++/Java/scripting (Perl, Python)
Extensive UNIX system and network programming experience
Strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies
Strong background in information retrieval, Internet search and/or linguistics
Strong algorithm background, awareness of time and space complexity
Strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry
Expertise in Data Mining/Machine Learning/Web Mining is a huge plus along with refereed publications in related conferences.
Past experience in dealing with large amounts of data on distributed platforms is also a huge plus.
Working knowledge of standard tools for optimizing and testing code
Most important, we want self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through their creations.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Software Engineer - Algorithms and Engineering."
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Software Engineer - Information Retrieval / Search Quality (Position Title: Member of Technical Staff)
Job Description
Take responsibility for evaluating and improving search quality. Design quality tests, analyze large scale data sets, write code for evaluating search engine precision and recall. Design and implement algorithms for improving search quality.
Qualifications
BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
Programming wizardry in C/C++/Java/scripting (Perl, Python)
Extensive UNIX system and network programming experience
Strong foundation in system design, software architecture, web technologies
Strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry
Expertise in working with high-performance distributed systems
Search-quality tuning, evaluation of precision and recall
Internationalization
Participation in TREC or SIGIR
Experience designing large-scale information-retrieval systems
Most important, we want self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through their creations.
Strong work ethic, flexibility, good initiative, proven attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to work well within a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment is required.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Software Engineer - Information Retrieval / Search Quality."
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Software Engineer / Web Application Developer - Search Technology (Position Title: Member of Technical Staff)
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Web Application Developer with solid technical skills and a passion for building great products. This position requires architecting, designing and developing front-end web applications highly optimized for supporting a massive user base of tens of millions of users. We are seeking a talented, motivated UI Developer to join the engineering team. You will work closely with product managers to prototype, document and implement next generation web applications with user insight and scalable performance in mind. The ideal candidate will be responsible for providing creative solutions for a user-centric web experience and participate in concept development and design ideation.
Qualifications
BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields
5+ years of industry experience
Programming wizardry in C/C++
Expertise in cross-platform DHTML, XHTML, CSS 2.0, JavaScript 1.5, XML, XSLT, AJAX and PHP
Development experience on UNIX server platforms
Web standards experience
Strong command of cross-browser compatibility issues, optimization techniques (both in file weight and perceived/actual rendering speed)
Strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry
Fast learner - can quickly come up to speed with different technologies and develop prototypes as needed
Most important, we want self-motivated builders with a real urge to change the world through their creations.
Strong work ethic, flexibility, good initiative, proven attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to work well within a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment is required.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Software Engineer - Web Application Developer - Search Technology."
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Position Title: Senior Systems Administrator (Member of Technical Staff)
Job Description
We're looking for experienced Systems Administrators to help manage our large-scale distributed search cluster. The candidate must have experience managing and growing a large network of UNIX servers and/or workstations. This position will involve the deployment / management of server hardware and crawling, indexing, and query-serving software. Additionally, we're looking for someone capable of building automation software to assist in the build and deployment of our massive distributed search index.
Qualifications
BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related fields.
5+ years of experience in Systems Administration
Experience in a high-volume or critical production service environment
Experience building large clusters in data centers
Strong knowledge of UNIX systems (Linux preferred)
Experience developing tools in a high-level scripting language (e.g. Perl, Python, etc.)
Extensive knowledge of TCP/IP networking, firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers
Experience with site monitoring (Nagios, Sitescope etc.) and performance measuring tools
Excellent trouble shooting skills
Passion and drive for operational excellence
Ability to develop and document repeatable operational procedures
Ability to plan and execute routine maintenance outages, with a premium on minimizing risk and application downtime
Desire to aggressively automate repeating tasks to allow the team to scale with Cosmix's rapid growth
Strong work ethic, flexibility, good initiative, proven attention to detail, communication skills, and the ability to work well within a diverse, challenging, and rewarding environment is required.
Contact information: Please send email to jobs@kosmix.com with the subject "Systems Administrator."
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