Cool Job Opening (but not with my company...)

[dredpiratebunny]

an ex-coworker of mine is looking for someone to work at their company. the echo nest has a darn cool product...i've seen it in action.

if anyone is interested, i will get you contact info...

Job Title: Director of Knowledge


Company Description: The Echo Nest powers intelligent digital music applications for online music companies based on its one-of-a-kind “Musical Brain”. The Musical Brain is a machine learning platform that actually listens to music and reads about music from every corner of the web to radically improve music search, recommendation and interactivity.

Job Description: We are looking for an experienced information architect and team leader who can help us grow and scale our data storage and retrieval systems, which include in-depth text processing, web data crawling and audio signal processing. The ideal candidate has led a team to build a large-scale data storage and retrieval system at an internet scale, is comfortable with cluster management and computing, can manage developers, and can identify faults and inefficiencies on complex yet subjective data queries.

Responsibilities:

• Architect of distributed text / audio search and database systems
• Manage small development team
• Design and direct search and retrieval quality evaluation
• Build monitoring, failover, failure detection tools

Comments

[hatefulblizzard.livejournal.com]

Not that I qualify for it but I'd love to be able to introduce myself as "The Director of Knowledge".

[silveroak.livejournal.com]

Sounds quite similar to the Music Genome Project aka Pandora.

Too bad this isn't for the musical end of it.