Google is looking for Structured Data Analyst / Taxonomist

Τρίτη 23 Οκτωβρίου 2012

Hire, train and supervise multilingual human annotators in the production of high-quality structured data to inform intelligent systems that attempt to understand web content and users of Google’s products.
Use your strong understanding of current online advertising, marketing practices, and industry and market research to guide classifier model design and feature engineering in a dynamic software development environment, working collaboratively with engineers and project managers.
Develop, expand and maintain various application-oriented taxonomies used to characterize and organize web content, business inventories and user interests and behaviors, all while exhibiting a pragmatic, flexible and hands-on approach at data modeling and analysis toward the goal of automated understanding of natural language and user behaviors.

Bachelors degree in an analytical data-driven field (e.g., statistics, linguistics, library science).
3 years of industry experience in a software or product development environment. Experience working on the technical side of an ad agency or in an SEM/SEO setting.
Experience in helping to shape new products, iterating quickly, thinking creatively, and identifying what has promise, and what's a dead end.
Scripting (Python/Perl/Bash) and SQL proficiency.
Familiarity with basic principles of statistical machine learning and text classification.
Strong written and verbal communications skills, and ability to work in a multilingual setting.