Nowmov - Machine Learning Software Engineer

Did you know that average person spends close to 6 hours each day watching video? That's 25% more than they spend on all other media, combined? Yet watching online video accounts for less than a tenth of the total -- why? Because the current online video discovery experience is terrible. Bad as discovery is now, it's only going to get worse; every minute, more than a day's worth of video is uploaded to YouTube alone.

Nowmov is "Pandora for videos". Our current product intelligently programs a list of trending videos and ones shared among your social network. We are just getting started and are committed to change how the world discovers and watches videos on the connected devices.

Our founders are two ex Apple employees: Thomas, who was responsible for Apple's H.264 encoder implementation; and James, who built the video processing systems for the iTunes Store. We are Y Combinator graduates (Winter 2010) and angel funded. Our seed round was lead by SV Angel.

You would be leading our personalization effort -- finding the needles in the haystack, using MATH, if necessary. Think of us as a real time video genome project on user generated content!

Here are some of the questions we need your help answering:

- what can we do to minimize the cold start problem?

- is there anything specific about video that would help?

- how can we utilize your social network activities to recommend?

You are:

- expert in the creation of machine learning/personalization systems;

- comfortable with teaching your coworkers stuff they don't know; (Don't worry we are all quick learners ;)

- familiar with if not expert in tools to scale and execute the algorithms;

- willing to put the startup as your top priority;

- unafraid of pushing your code to the live server. On a Friday afternoon.

We are:

- generous with compensation and benefits, including early-employee equity;

- flexible about work hours;

- happy to buy you whatever equipment you need to get your job done;

- working in a great office at Union Square with other awesome Y Combinator alumni.

If interested, please drop us an email at jobs@nowmov.com and say hi.