Data Acquisition Specialist

Location: California Resident, SF Bay Area -Hybrid Role

We are seeking a full-time Data Acquisition specialist, who has the ability to correctly identify patterns as becoming a specialized, but essential skill when dealing with large amounts of data. Diverse fields from cyber threat to genomics rely on accurately identifying, acquiring and, at times, correcting a very specific pattern among a sea of potential targets.

What You’ll be Doing

You are a regular expression expert comfortable dealing with texts from all over the world. You don’t necessarily have to be fluent in many languages, just be able to process/manipulate many different languages, formats and symbols with ease. The ideal candidate should be able to create/modify the patterns into classes/categories/rules with experience in automating and parallelizing tasks. A working knowledge of python is necessary.

Qualifications:

CS degree is not essential, but a degree/experience is necessary in sufficiently technical or related fields, e.g bioinformatics data preprocessing, quantitative linguistics, fields where data extraction from a large number of logs/dataset is involved.

Bonus:

Excellent command of python if the candidate aspires to take on the role of task automation. Mongodb Linux command line environment Exposure to cloud environments (AWS, GCP) Understanding of distance functions and how they relate to error correction Regex experience with right to left languages, e.g. Hebrew and Arabic

Notice(s)

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