Data Engineer

We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our Engineering team to work with our data pipeline. We ingest data from some of the most interesting sources in the world, collecting from places like the Twitter and Foursquare APIs and even UFO sightings reported to the National UFO Reporting Center.

Leverage your expertise with data by contributing to our mission to make data more accessible for the rest of the world. Members of our Engineering team make it possible for us to serve our customers with things like Trstrank and everything you can find in our Geo APIs. We are a world-class Big Data shop, with a unique approach and philosophy you won’t find anywhere else.

Our data pipeline uses technologies such as HBase, Elastic Search, Flume, Chef, Pig, and Hadoop. We’ve even developed tools of our own to make the ingestion pipeline run more smoothly, like a Ruby-based interface to Hadoop and a bulk loader for Elastic Search, that you can check out here: http://www.infochimps.com/tools.

Experience with some of the following is preferred:

• HBase
• Hadoop
• Elastic Search
• Chef
• Java
• Pig
• Ruby

Other useful skills include:

• Natural Language Processing algorithms
• ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) Experience
• Voronoi Diagrams
• Unsupervised clustering algorithms
• Large scale data processing

Business Development Representative

Job Description

We are a world-class Big Data shop, with a unique approach and philosophy that you won’t find anywhere else. We are looking to grow our team with a highly motivated Inside Sales/Bus Dev Rep to help drive new business. This is NOT an account management role, this is for HUNTERS only.

As a Business Development Representative, you’ll be working from our Austin office with primary responsibilities that include:

• Contacting key decision-makers about Infochimps and our Big Data solutions
• Assisting the Director of Sales by qualifying inbound marketing campaign leads & scheduling calls and meetings with prospective clients
• Continuously learning our Big Data solutions/value proposition/differentiation in order to enhance conversations with prospects

Job Requirements

• Make cold calls from a provided list of companies to generate new leads.
• Efficiently use Salesforce.com to maintain a complete and accurate record of all sales prospects and activities
• Liaise with management to ensure activities and objectives are in sync with corporate strategy
• Excellent telephone skills and be technology savvy

Employment Type

• Full or Part-time

General Responsibilities:

• Build relationships to provide repeat business and excellent customer service.
• Make cold calls from provided list of area companies.
• Research and compile additional prospect lists
• Cold call new sales leads to generate sales.
• Handle incoming sales calls from sales prospects.
• Lead and opportunity qualification
• Maintain complete and accurate records of all sales prospects.
• Liaise with management to ensure activities and objectives are in sync with corporate strategy
• Duties outside your primary responsibilities may be requested

Minimum Requirements:

• 2+ years experience in an enterprise software company and hands-on experience with large scale enterprise software rollouts would be an asset but not required.
• 2+ years of experience in a business development capacity
• Experience with virtualization technologies would be an asset but not required.
• Experience with heterogeneous environments including Windows, UNIX and Linux
• Experience in providing value propositions to C-Level executives
• Strong verbal communication skills and excellent technical writing skills
• Strong team player and enjoys working in a fast paced team atmosphere
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments and projects
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite and online delivery tools such as GoToMeeting or EAP
• Degree or diploma in Sales or Business Management or a related field is strongly preferred

Technical Writer

Are you well-versed in Engineering-speak? Can you translate the arcane into the mundane in a timely fashion without making it boring to read? Are you a grammar ninja with a firm hold on the rules of English and technical writing principles? If so, please read on.

The ideal candidate will create, develop, plan, write, and edit operational, instructional, and other kinds of documents (e.g. white papers, documentation, how to's/readme's, possible blogs, etc.) for paper, multimedia, or web-based publication in a timely manner.

Required skills:

• A talent for translating deeply technical engineer-speak into language accessible to the casual reader
• Exceptional attention to detail and nuance
• Demonstrated repeated ability to deliver high quality results on tight timelines
• Comfortable working in a technical environment
• Able to organize information from multiple sources and combine them into a cogent narrative

In addition, experience with at least one of the following is preferred:

InDesign, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Omnigraffle, some HTML/CSS, general Web design, WordPress, other desktop publishing software, some video editing/ creation (Camtasia, or etc.), working with APIs, and on other custom technology projects.

To be considered for this position, please send us your resume, a published sample of your work, and a cover letter.