We are seeking a talented web developer to join our growing team and work ONSITE at our comfortable office space located in the heart of Venice Beach.

To be considered for this position, the candidate MUST possess the following qualifications:

• Expert in PHP


• Expert in MySQL


• Expert in XHTML, CSS


• Expert in JavaScript and AJAX


• Excellent SEO proficiency.


• Highly proficient with Photoshop


• Understanding of DNS and A Records


• Working Knowledge of Mod_rewrite and .htaccess


• Ability to setup a web server from scratch (with and without PLESK and CPanel)


• Knowledge & proficiency with all forms of social media


• Is an expert in WordPress


• Has the ability to deploy websites very easily


• Design skills are also a major plus.

RankLab Interactive is a boutique Search Engine Marketing company in Venice CA. We work closely with each of our clients to ensure success and build long-term relationships. Your duties will be to implement, manage and extend the capabilities of our client and internal websites along with various IT duties.

We are seeking an individual who works fast but carefully, and has an eye for detail when it comes to their coding.

Our ideal candidate is a self-starter, who can take the initiative and produce large volumes of quality work without the presence of constant oversight or supervision.

We are looking for someone who is serious about their work, but has a great sense of humor as well and is comfortable working as part of a small, closely-knit team of professionals.

This can be a part-time or full-time position (depending upon the speed and quality of your work) however we are looking for a person that has the ability to spend at least a portion of each day onsite in our Venice office (M – F). If you aren’t able to come into the office every day, please do not apply.

Compensation is based on experience.

If you feel that you are a match for this position and would like to find out more, please email your resume. In the body of your email please answer the following questions:

1. Please define and explain LAMP.


2. What is the difference between a 301 Host Header and a 302.


3. If a site has a JavaScript error, how do you identify and debug it?


4. What is a Database Abstraction Class? Why is it useful?


5. Please create a CSS ID selector that is 300 pixels wide, 200 pixels tall, has a background color of light green (you choose the shade), has a solid grey border, a margin of 10px and padding of 20px.

All submissions without ALL of these questions answered in full will be ignored.

Email us today. We are anxiously waiting to start working with you!

Job Title: Senior Applications Engineer (Professional Services)
Reports To: Director of Professional Services
Location: Marina del Rey, California
Duration: Full Time - Regular Hire
Years of Experience Required: 5-7+
Expected Travel Time: To 20%

About the Company:

Language Weaver, Inc., was founded in January 2002, to commercialize a breakthrough approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing, based on research advances made at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Language Weaver’s resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), uses a statistical rather than traditional rule-based approach to correlate words and word groupings from language to language and produce the highest probability output. Language Weaver has since grown and expanded into the SaaS marketplace. Quite simply, we accelerate the way the world communicates!

Job Description:

This position is responsible for defining and building custom products to support multilingual requirements of Fortune 1000 customers. This is primarily a development role with a strong focus on development methodology and process. This role requires the ability to communicate with multiple aspects of the company including developers, system administrators, sales, marketing, customers and various levels of executive oversight.

This position requires hands on development skills, strong command line administration skills, and the ability to work with various scripting and programming languages. Strong familiarity with XML, understanding of working with a SOAP APIs and REST APIs, strong enterprise content management skills and substantial experience working with an enterprise web stack.

The ideal candidate is both process oriented and seasoned in customer interaction.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Developing customized translation systems to meet customer needs, while ensuring customer data integrity
• Direct client interaction with Fortune 1000 customer base to improve the system development process
• Identification of challenges and implementation of solutions to improve translation quality
• Development of specialized translation components

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent technology specialty and/or equivalent professional experience. Desirable industry experience of 7 + years with enterprise application development, enterprise content management, Web 2.0 or technical professional services consulting. Strong ability to architect and implement solutions in Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C++ or other programming and scripting languages.

Excellent time management, interpersonal, problem solving, organizational, and technical skills required. The candidate must have the ability to demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and to think beyond “outside of the box". Must have the ability to coordinate a wide range of assignments by managing dependencies, expectations and effectively communicate with stakeholders.

We offer a competitive benefits package inclusive of:

• Competitive base salary
• Performance based bonus
• Casual dress environment
• HMO & PPO Health Insurance Options
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k with company match
• Stock Option Plan
• Vacation

Please submit resume and salary history to resumes@languageweaver.com, EOE. No recruiter or outside agency inquires.

Job Title: Sales Engineer
Reports To: Vice President of Products
Location: Marina del Rey, California
Duration: Full Time - Regular Hire
Years of Experience Required: 5-7+
Expected Travel Time: To 20% to 80%

About the Company:

Language Weaver, Inc., was founded in January 2002, to commercialize a breakthrough approach to automatic language translation and natural language processing, based on research advances made at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute (USC/ISI). Language Weaver’s resulting product, statistical machine translation software (SMTS), uses a statistical rather than traditional rule-based approach to correlate words and word groupings from language to language and produce the highest probability output. With backing from Palisades Ventures and In-Q-Tel, Language Weaver has since grown and expanded into the SaaS marketplace. Quite simply, we accelerate the way the world communicates!

Job Description:

This position serves as the bridge between Language Weaver’s Product/Marketing team, our professional services organization and our sales organization to help qualified prospects become customers. The Sales Engineer is responsible for liaising with Fortune 1000 clients before, during and after a sale. He or she will manage trial accounts and licenses as well as perform product demonstrations via telephone, web conferencing and in person. Further, the incumbent will assist in the drafting and preparation of proposals and RFP’s, for both commercial and government customers and prospects. The sales engineer will be responsible for technically qualifying a customer during the sales process and in assisting the customer craft a solution that will then be handed off to professional services for implementation post sales.

This position requires hands on development skills paired with the ability work strategically with the sales and marketing teams, assist in the closing of a sales process and work strategically as a bridge between Language Weaver and a prospect at multiple touch points in the new customer lifecycle. Strong familiarity with content management solutions, knowledge of a web stack and an ability to write and interact with a rest API will be necessary.

The ideal candidate is both process oriented and seasoned in client facing positions. A firm grasp of iterative customer interaction models is also required.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Assist with crafting proposals, RFP’s and related documentation for government and commercial customers
• Troubleshoot customer problems before, during and after integrations
• Management of trial accounts and trial licenses
• Presentation of products to potential customers and assist with closing of new accounts

QUALIFICATIONS:

Applicants should have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent technology specialty and/or equivalent professional experience. Desirable industry experience of 4 + years with content management, Web 2.0 or professional services consulting. Broad knowledge of web and Microsoft technologies. Strong ability to architect and implement solutions in Ajax, PHP, Perl, C++ or similar.

Excellent time management, interpersonal, problem solving, organizational, and technical skills required. The candidate must have the ability to demonstrate initiative, adaptability, and to think beyond “outside of the box". Must have the ability to coordinate a wide range of assignments by managing dependencies, expectations and effectively communicate with stakeholders.

We offer a competitive benefits package inclusive of:

• Competitive base salary
• Performance based bonus
• Casual dress environment
• HMO & PPO Health Insurance Options
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k with company match
• Stock Option Plan
• Vacation

Please submit resume and salary history to resumes@languageweaver.com, EOE. No recruiter or outside agency inquires.

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Research Software Engineer (Javascript/Python/Django)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California

Summary:

We are looking for someone with professional development experience using Javascript, Python and Django. Experience with Software Design Patterns, JQuery, Apache, and R, and familiarity with biology and bioinformatics would be desirable but not essential. Intelligence, good communication skills, and team-spirit are crucial.

The project involves developing a web-based data analysis resource running on the Amazon EC2. We are looking for someone who is creative, motivated, and self-reliant; someone who can develop sophisticated, robust, high performance, and scalable web-based applications.

The candidate will work with a diverse team of computational and experimental biologists and will be responsible for developing a new generation of open-source web-based tools for analysis, visulization, and modeling of complex datasets. For more information on this project, visit our web site: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tcellgrn/


This is a temporary full-time position.

Job Duties:

Contribute to the development of an open-source web-server application (CRdata.org) that uses R as its computational engine, Javascript to manage the client-side interface, and Python to interface to Apache and R. Our resources run on the Amazon Elastic computing Cloud (EC2) and optimizing our use of EC2 will also be an important part of the candidate's work.

The candidate will develop sophisticated, robust, high performance, and scalable web-based applications within the above framework.

The candidate will be supervised directly by Hamid Boulori and work closely with our existing team comprising a statistician, a research software developer and a large number of on and off site collaborators. We offer flexible working hours, the opportunity to telecommute part of the time, and a nuturing and stimulating working environment.


Basic Qualifications:

Degree in Computer Science or related disciplines and 3 years experience in Javascript programming and 2 years experience in Python and Django. Intelligence, good communication skills and team-spirit are crucial.


Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with Software Design Patters, JQuery, Apache, and R, and familiarity with biology and bioinformatics would be desirable but not essential



We offer flexible working hours and the possiblity to telecommute part of the time. Caltech offers an intellectually and culturally rich and stimulating environment as well as excellent facilities and benefits. Salary range is 52.5K to 78K. This project is funded until end of June 2010. To be considered for this position, please visit our web site and submit your resume at the following link:
http://www2.recruitingcenter.net/clients/CalTech/publicjobs/controller.cfm?jbaction=JobProfile&Job_Id=15494&esid=az


Caltech is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, Minorities, Veterans and Disabled Persons are encouraged to apply.

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