You’re fluent in web-based technologies, fascinated by the way new communication platforms are shaping our collective future, and excited about their potential to help businesses understand what their customers want and need. Most of all, when you look at unsolved problems, you see opportunities.

We offer generous compensation, excellent benefits, and a relaxed work environment at our headquarters in sunny Santa Monica, California.

Currently available positions:

Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Software Engineer: Server Side
Software Engineer: Text Mining
Software Engineer: Data Mining
Software Engineer: Record Linkage
Machine Learning Research Engineer: Statistician
Software Engineer Internship

Title: Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We are looking for superstars to become our next generation leaders.

• Design and development of end to end pipeline of to the Hadoop software ecosystem.
• Develop highly reliable, scalable, extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant systems that go into real products
• Build public APIs and internal libraries to support future growth
• Analyze product requirements, create test plans, and identify deliverables
• Write test status reports and escalate issues as appropriate
• Proactively solve problems, suggest process improvements, identify project risks and recommend actions to minimize risk
• Collaborate and peer review with other engineers on feature design, implementation and relevant metrics like reliability, deployability and cost

Desired Skills & Experience

• Minimum 8 years experience in a fast-paced software industry with an excellent understanding of scalable systems
• Strong programming skills in Java
• At least one dynamic language e.g. Groovy, Python
• Background in Enterprise Java, Tomcat and Servlets
• Application development in Grails, Spring, Spring Security, Groovy.
• Knowledge of Ajax/JavaScript, JSON & web services API
• Deep understanding of a specific area of the Hadoop stack such as HDFS, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, etc.
• Large-scale system design experience, with extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Familiarity with database design with a working knowledge of MySQL.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with software development lifecycle and Agile Software Development
• Ability to work under aggressive deadlines
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Strong teamwork skills

Nice to Haves

• Knowledge of C/C++ and Python
• Knowledge of text mining and machine learning algorithms
• Experience in Business Rule Engine and Rule Management Systems is desirable
• Knowledge of Scala

Submit your cover letter and résumé to: jobs@incentica.net – Direct candidates only! No recruiters please.

Title: Software Engineer: Database and Hadoop Specialist

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

• Develop highly reliable, scalable, extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant NoSql database system.
• Collaborate and peer review with other engineers on feature design, implementation and relevant metrics like reliability, deployability and cost.
• The successful candidate will be a team player capable of developing scalable solutions that go into real products

Job Description

Title: Software Engineer

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

• Develop highly reliable, scalable, extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant production system.
• Collaborate and peer review with other engineers on feature design, implementation and relevant metrics like reliability, deployability and cost

Title: Software Engineer – Server Side

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We are looking for superstars to become our next generation leaders.

• Develop highly reliable, scalable, extremely high-volume, fault-tolerant production system.
• Collaborate and peer review with other engineers on feature design, implementation and relevant metrics like reliability, deployability and cost

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong programming skills in Java, Groovy and Grails.
• Strong background in Enterprise Java, TomCat and Servlet.
• Large-scale system design experience, with extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Knowledge of Ajax/JavaScript, JSON & web services API.
• Familiarity with database design with a working knowledge of MySQL.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Ability to create well-modularized, maintainable software and willing to follow group coding standards and design.
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development is a plus.
• Ability to work under aggressive deadlines
• Strong teamwork skills

Nice to Haves

• Background in text mining and data mining.
• Working knowledge of Hadoop, Mapreduce and NoSql technologies

Submit your cover letter and résumé to: jobs@incentica.net – Direct candidates only! No recruiters please.

Title: Software Engineer: Text Mining

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

Possibility for telecommuting for the right candidate.

• Design advanced text-mining solutions for terabytes worth of data.
• Design and develop information extraction solutions and transforming text from various structured and unstructured sources.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and Java.
• Working knowledge of text mining and NLP.
• Large-scale system design experience, with extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux.
• Working knowledge of Hadoop, MapReduce and NoSql technologies.
• Knowledge of Ajax/JavaScript, JSON & web services API is a plus.
• Familiarity with database design with a working knowledge of MySQL.
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
• Ability to create well-modularized, maintainable software and willing to follow group coding standards and design.
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development.
• Ability to work under aggressive deadlines.

Nice to Haves

• Background in data mining, collaborative filtering and machine learning.
• Experience in working with Lucene and Katta/Solr.
• Python programming skills.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience.

Submit your cover letter and résumé to: jobs@incentica.net – Direct candidates only! No recruiters please.

Job Description

Title: Software Engineer: Data Mining

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

Possibility for telecommuting for the right candidate.

• Design and develop advanced scalable data mining solutions for mining terabytes of data including classification, clustering and collaborative filtering.
• Optimize develop modules for specific hardware.

Title: Software Engineer: Record Linkage

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

Possibility for telecommuting for the right candidate.

• Design and develop creative techniques for de-duplication and record linkage in structured and semi-structured databases.
• Implement unsupervised machine learning and clustering algorithms on large-scale data.
• Collaborate and peer review with other engineers on feature design, implementation and relevant metrics like reliability, deployability and cost.
• The successful candidate will be a team player capable of developing scalable solutions that go into real products.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong programming skills in Java
• One or more scripting languages e.g. Groovy, Python
• Large-scale system design experience, with extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux
• Background in NoSql technologies such as Hadoop and Mapreduce
• Familiarity with database design with a working knowledge of MySQL
• Strong background in record linkage, entity resolution and alias detection
• Excellent understanding of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
• Strong background in machine learning and data mining
• Background in large-scale graph algorithms
• Ability to create well-modularized, maintainable software and willing to follow group coding standards and design
• Familiarity with Agile Software Development is a plus
• Ability to work under aggressive deadlines

Nice to Haves

• Background NLP and Information Extraction from unstructured data
• Knowledge in statistics
• Knowledge of C/C++ and Python
• Knowledge of Ajax/JavaScript, JSON & web services API

Submit your cover letter and résumé to: jobs@incentica.net – Direct candidates only! No recruiters please.

Job Description

Title: Machine Learning Research Engineer – Statistician

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

Possibility for telecommuting for the right candidate.

• Design and develop creative, advanced solutions for mining petabytes of data including classification, clustering and link discovery.
• Design and develop state of the art optimization and randomization techniques.
• The successful candidate will be a team player capable of developing scalable solutions that go into real products.

Title: Software Engineer Intern: NLP

We are looking for super smart and hard working software engineers to work on extremely challenging problems. We’re most interested in people who have strong background in computer science theory, algorithms, and are great engineers. Above all, we want people who are passionate, motivated and curious to learn and work on bleeding edge technologies. We have opportunities for current superstars as well as future superstars.

• Design and develop creative techniques for entity recognition and short text classification.

Preferred Experience

• Computer Science Majors.
• Masters or Ph.D.
• Comfortable with Java Programming language.
• Courses in algorithms, database, AI, NLP, machine learning, statistics & data mining.
• One or more scripting languages, e.g. Groovy, Python

Nice to Haves

• Prior Work experience (Industry over academic)
• Participation in programming contests.
• Enterprise Java technologies ( spring, servlets, xml, web frameworks.)
• Large data processing systems: Hadoop family, MapReduce, NoSQL.
• Linux
• Knowledge of C/C++ and Python.
• Knowledge of Ajax/JavaScript, JSON & web services API

Submit your cover letter and résumé to: jobs@incentica.net – Direct candidates only! No recruiters please.