Technical Researcher

COMPANY: Last.fm

JOB TITLE: Researcher

• Help improve Last.fm’s recommendation engine
• Provide data insights
• Build prototypes to demonstrate ideas

RELATED DEGREE:

PhD in computer science (specialized on music information retrieval)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Published research papers on music information retrieval
• Post-graduate year in Japan working on music information retrieval

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Music information retrieval
• Statistics, data mining
• Programming, data structures, scalability

BENEFITS OF THE JOB:

• Interesting and new challenges everyday
• Plenty of data to analyse and users to gather feedback from
• Working with a great team in a fun environment

CAREER GOALS:

Work on something I’m passionate about and continuously learn new things.