Change.org is a rapidly expanding, profitable social venture growing by hundreds of thousands of members a month and empowering people across the globe to win social action campaigns on a wide range of issues such as human rights, global poverty, and environmental protection. Our current partners include hundreds of the world’s largest nonprofits, including Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, and the United Nations Foundation.
Change.org is the fastest-growing platform for social change on the web, pioneering a new model of distributed organizing that empowers anyone, anywhere to start, join, and win campaigns for social change.
YOU WANT
- to be part of a small, close-knit team
- to work for a profitable company that is making the world better
- an agile environment with short release cycles
- Mac OS X as your primary work environment
YOU HAVE
- a passion for "big data" and how to mine it for knowledge
- a deep understanding of linear algebra, machine learning, and statistics
- a solid understanding of software engineering
- completed multiple projects using one or more of the following techniques: classification, clustering, recommendation, visualization, logistic regression, principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling
YOU CAN
- create and apply machine learning algorithms to complex problems
- can write scalable, production-ready code
- find your way around both MySQL and MongoDB data stores
- visualize data sets to make them understandable to lay people
YOU WILL
- live, breathe, and love our data
- use Hadoop, MapReduce, Mahout, GNU R, and other tools
- demonstrate your progress toward your goal each week
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.