Netflix Looking for Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Research

The Analytic Talent blog has posted a Netflix job opening for a Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Research.

As a key researcher for our web application development team, you will be working on data mining and algorithm development to build the world’s best movie finding software with some of the brightest people in the E-commerce arena. Our goal is to know our customers’ movie tastes well enough to create the perfect store, always presenting amazing titles just for them.

We are looking for a very experienced engineer who can take the lead, researching, modeling, presenting, designing and building algorithms that run in a service oriented architecture to support millions of customers. The successful candidate will be a self-motivated, intellectually curious individual. A Doctorate or experience working in a research environment, work with personalization algorithms, machine learning, adaptive systems, and statistical analysis would be a bonus.

Comments

[steve]

I wonder if they really are trying to find someone to think of more creative ways to slow down my Netflix experience.

I am now getting so many delays in acknowledging the receipt of movies, delays in shipping movies, movies shipped from out of state and movies shipped from way down my list (which screws up my TV series) that I have adapted to, that they must need new algorithms and adaptive systems to screw me even more to force me to upgrade my service.