Research Engineer

Created on 29-09-2016

Location Palo Alto

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Description

About Houzz

Join Houzz in revolutionizing the home and remodeling industry and have an impact on over 40 million homeowners and 1.5 million professionals around the world. Frequently ranked as one of the top 10 most disruptive companies in the world and backed by marquee venture capitalists, Houzz will allow you to drive the future of an industry worth $1.2 trillion in the US and Europe alone.

Our entrepreneurial culture and warm family atmosphere will surround you with a fun and dynamic work environment you will only find at Houzz.

Our engineers play a direct role in the direction of our company and are able to work across multiple groups to implement fresh ideas that allow Houzz to be the industry leader. If you are interested in applying your passion to create products that will transform the lives of millions of users remodeling and decorating their homes, then welcome to Houzz.

Position Overview

We do research differently here at Houzz. Embedded within product teams, research engineers advance state-of-the-art algorithms and deploy promising implementations quickly to help millions of people. Research engineers oversee complex, real-world problems and directly shape how people understand, visualize, and design dream homes for their families.

Houzz is looking for top Research Engineers with passions in areas such as natural language processing, machine learning, information retrieval, or data mining. Our mission is the utilize state of the art technologies to innovate and provide our users with new capabilities in order to improve their user experience.

Contributions

Playing a central role in improving product quality to increase user engagement

Researching and implementing algorithms to improve Houzz in areas such as search, ads, e-commerce, digital marketing personalization, or recommendations

Designing and experimenting with new product features to further engage our users

Defining key success metrics for site quality; collecting and analyzing user log data to calculate these metrics; designing and running A/B tests to improve these key metrics

Working in a small, collaborative team with designers, front-end engineers, and back-end engineers to bring new ideas to reality

Required Skills & Experience

Solid coding skill with at least one common programming language (e.g., Python, Java, PHP, or C++)

Knowledge of Machine Learning, Probability, Statistics, and Data Mining

M.S., B.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related engineering disciplines

Experience with Search, Recommendation, Advertising, and Personalization Systems

Experience with Map-Reduce computing system such as Hadoop

Benefits

Competitive Salary, Flexible Paid Time Off, Commuter Benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision, & Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, 401k Retirement Savings, Flexible Spending Accounts, Gym Partnership Discounts, Catered Meals, Fully-Stocked Kitchens, and much more!