Factual is hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.
Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great engineer and have lots of machine learning/data extraction/NLP/etc. experience that is relevant to what we do).
Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.
There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure, machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our Palo Alto office recently opened so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.
You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:
Palo Alto Software Engineer: <a href="http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&#38;s=Hackernews" >http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&#38;s=Hackernews</a>
Los Angeles Software engineer: <a href="http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&#38;s=Hackernews" >http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&#38;s=Hackernews</a>
Los Angeles Data Engineer: <a href="http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&#38;s=Hackernews" >http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&#38;s=Hackernews</a>