Software Development Engineer-Data Mining/Text Analysis/Machine Learning

Posted:	25 January 2013
Company name:	EdgeWave
Location:	Rohnert Park, CA
	United States
Travel:	none
Poster represents:	employer
Terms of employment:	Salaried employee
Hours:	full time
Onsite:	yes
Description: This position is responsible for researching, designing, testing, and coding software for the filters in EdgeWave’s security products . Oversee and enhance the manual and automated email filter rule generation system . Research new data analysis techniques to be applied to filtering of email, web and other types of network traffic . Implement and test these new techniques as well as maintain existing code . Responsible for overall email filter performance . Work with Sales and Tech Support on email filter issues . Keep abreast of current Network Abuse/Security vulnerabilities with regard to spam, and latest viruses and exploits.
Required skills: . 4-year degree in Computer Science or equivalent qualifications and experience. . 3-5 years work experience programming in at least one, preferably both, of the following languages: Python, Java . Software development experience in Linux or OSX. . 1+ years experience with Data Mining, Clustering, Text Analysis and Machine Learning . Regular Expression guru . Knowledge of botnets, phishing, email scams and spam. . Strong mathematical background, problem solving skills, detail orientation, ability to follow-through independently, and motivated self-starter. . 1+ years experience with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL or MySQL or Oracle). . Ability to communicate effectively. . Experience with source control (e.g. Subversion, Git, or CVS).
URL for more information: http://www.edgewave.com/employment/rc/engineering_swEngineer.asp