We operate at scale at Polyvore: 20M users, on a site that pulls in huge amounts of data - millions of products - every day. Our ability to make this data useful to ourselves, our users, and our customers, is crucial to our continued growth and profitability. Youâll be responsible for enabling Polyvore to do even more with our data, by building systems which will do things like: -improve search relevance using machine learning. -improve search infrastructure (scaling for example). -improve ranking features (keyword extraction using machine learning, for example). Desired Skills and Experience BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent Experience with Search (ranking or search infrastruture). Write solid code (Java, Perl/Python). Interest in big data challenges. Past experience working with large scale websites. Familiarity with current research in information retrieval, machine learning, data extraction and related fields. Nice to have Solr and/or Lucene experience is a big plus. Experience at e-commerce company is a plus. Experience with a scripting language like Perl or Python. Experience with Hadoop/Pig/Hive or scientific computing languages such as Mahout and R.













