We are hiring
The Echo Nest is a technology and research-focused music intelligence startup based in Somerville, MA (Davis Square). We provide music information services to developers and partners through our large data mining and machine listening platform that both listens to and reads about the entire world of online music. Our current development projects involve large scale internet data mining, machine learning, DSP optimization, and music and video analysis and synthesis.
The Echo Nest offers an excellent benefits and vacation package. Please mail us at jobs2010@echonest.com. If you fit a position, someone from EN will get back to you as soon as possible. We're sorry, but the volume of applications makes it impossible for us to reply to every application.
Engineering Positions:
- Audio DSP / MIR Engineer
- Software Architect
- Student Internship - Junior Engineer
- Technical Operations Manager
Business Positions:
Audio DSP / MIR Engineer
We are looking for a Signal Processing and Music Information Retrieval engineer to improve our music analysis and synthesis algorithms. You'd be in charge of evaluating and improving the current audio and music algorithms: feature extraction (key, time signature, beat, etc), and synthesis (beat-matching, thumbnailing, time-stretching, etc) as well as designing new ones. The ideal candidate has experience with music text, and machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, regression, etc). Please send examples of projects you have worked on.
Responsibilities:
- Design efficient music analysis and synthesis algorithms
- Evaluate and improve current music feature extraction
- Quick prototyping
The Ideal Candidate:
- Experienced in audio / music analysis and synthesis algorithms
- Actually understands the difference between audio and music
- Good knowledge of the Music Information Retrieval literature
- Proficiency in Matlab, Python, C/C++ (rather than assembly and embedded DSP)
- Educational background in Signal Processing, and Music
- Experienced in Machine Learning
- Experienced in text-based retrieval / clustering techniques
- Familiarity with high-dimensional search data structures
- Passionate, reliable, dedicated, good communication skills
Location: Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com
Software Architect
We are looking for an experienced software architect who can design and grow our audio analysis and synthesis platform. You would be working with our DSP researchers and engineers to build cutting-edge music tools that work on mobile devices, the desktop, and the web. The ideal candidate has built large cross-platform music software, is proficient with real-time audio, math optimization, and is familiar with DSP algorithms. For this position, please send examples of software engineering projects you have worked on.
Responsibilities:
- Architect of audio and music analysis and synthesis platform
- Write / rewrite code, integrating, optimizing, improving existing algorithms
- Design and direct software portability, efficiency, and quality evaluation
The Ideal Candidate:
- Experienced in architecting large cross-platform audio software
- Proficiency in C/C++, cross-platform compiling
- Proficiency in Python and in making Python libraries from C/C++
- Educational background in Computer Science, some Signal Processing
- Built real-time audio software and plug-ins
- Software optimization guru
- Familiarity with Quicktime, FFmpeg, IPP, MKL, Torch
- Familiarity with high-dimensional search data structures
- Familiarity with Music Information Retrieval research and solutions
- Familiarity with Machine Learning techniques
- Passionate, reliable, dedicated, good communication skills
Location: Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com
Student Internship - Junior Engineer
The Echo Nest is looking for undergraduate or graduate computer science students who love Python and music to help build on our one-of- a-kind music intelligence platform. The perfect candidate is more than passionate about music, is a solid developer, and can learn new things quickly. The internship is located in our office in Davis Square.
Responsibilities:
- Support Python development efforts around a code base that processes large amounts of music-oriented text and audio data
- Support of automated testing, scripting and basic QA for web crawling and audio analysis
- Learn new technologies quickly
The Ideal Candidate:
- Familiar with development and scripting work in Python
- Demonstrated top academic achievement in college-level Computer Science coursework
- Demonstrable knowledge of web and applications servers - Apache, IIS, Django
- Experience with web development, Django a big plus
- Passionate online music fan who loves learning new technologies
Location: Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com
Technical Operations Manager
The Technical Operations manager will support all engineering groups at The Echo Nest, ensuring excellent systems uptime, response time and overall customer satisfaction. The ideal candidate has a passion for online music and over 4 years of experience managing engineering operations for enterprise-level application servers in a data-intensive startup environment.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all server operations and planning, with a focus on high availability based on simplicity, resiliency and manageability.
- Develop, implement and administer all processes and procedures to ensure the reliability, recoverability, and optimum performance of all systems.
- Manage performance, availability and operational data collection for analysis of systems capacity requirements.
- Establish both a troubleshooting methodology and accurate root-cause analysis strategy to resolve problems that may have multiple system dependencies.
- Define 24x7 enterprise monitoring metrics and response criteria. Collaborate with the systems management team to deploy and maintain the required tools.
- Very light internal office IT operations -- internet connectivity, hardware provisioning
The Ideal Candidate:
- Must-Haves:
- Strong experience with Linux - shell scripting, regular expressions, cron, ssh, rsync
- Experience with virtualized hosts -- EC2, Xen, VMWare, etc
- Experience with one or more of: LAMP, Django, Solr, Jetty
- Internet-level network diagnostics: latency, bandwidth & throughput
- Server replication, hot spare building, backup management
- Understand and can act on hardware metrics: load, memory, disk IO, network IO, caches
- Understand and can act on software logs: apache, sql, solr, etc
- Extreme dedication to service uptime
- Passionate online music fan with a casual vibe and a serious work ethic.
- Creative thinker who embraces the opportunity to help shape our business.
- Nice-to-haves:
- Monitoring & admin tools including: Ganglia, Nagios, Puppet, Fabric
- Solr/Lucene administration and tuning
- MySQL administration and tuning
- Python scripting
Location: Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com
Student Internship - QA/Marketing
The Echo Nest is looking for undergraduate or graduate students who love music to help build on our one-of- a-kind music intelligence platform by providing strong QA. The perfect candidate is more than passionate about music, looking to fill a co-op or internship requirement for school, proficient with Macs, and can learn new things quickly. The internship is located in our office in Davis Square.
Responsibilities:
- Quickly search through information for a variety of tasks focusing on online music
- Able to understand and verbally convey your work process to help our developers
- Learn new technologies quickly
The Ideal Candidate:
- Comfortable with Macintosh computers and iWork
- Has a strong knowledge of blogs and social networking
- Able to quickly sort through content for important details
- Motivated problem solver
- Passionate music fan who loves learning about new technologies
Location: Davis Square, Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com
VP of Product
The VP of Product will work closely with the CEO and engineering team, leading product management, strategy and delivery, with accountability for key growth metrics. This product leader will be obsessed with digital music and will have a proven track record of successfully aligning technology platforms with market needs in a startup environment. The ideal candidate is keenly product-focused with a solid understanding of online music, analytics web services and information retrieval. Though this position will work closely with development teams in product development, this is not a hands-on engineering role.
Responsibilities:
- Own delivery of The Echo Nest product suite and trusted brand relationship within the online music market.
- Define product requirements for engineering and build consensus around product road map.
- Serve as the company's primary customer advocate ensuring our music intelligence platform addresses our customers' needs and exceeds expectations.
- Drive product innovation and development, focused on profitability and informed by analytical research.
The Ideal Candidate:
- Proven product manager and leader with a 7+ year track record building game-changing, internet-based technology in a start-up environment, ideally in online music.
- Excellent grasp of digital music products, development challenges and industry pain points.
- Solid understanding of how the money works in online music.
- Great communicator, able to connect and build strong relationships throughout our market -- developers, product leaders and media.
- Creative thinker who can anticipate market needs and embraces the opportunity to help shape our business.
- Passionate online music fan with a casual vibe and a serious work ethic.
Location: Somerville, MA.
Send resume and cover letter to jobs2010@echonest.com