perl guru's - can be aspiring (onsite), United States, ca, palo alto

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Posted: September 19, 2006

Job title: perl guru's - can be aspiring

Company name: topix

Location: United States, ca, palo alto

Pay rate: great

Travel: 0%

Terms of employment: Salaried employee

Hours: Full time

Onsite: yes

Description:
Topix, www.topix.net,  the first major news site to enable local
communities, nationwide, to talk back to the news for every article
aggregated from over 40,000 sources in mainstream news and the blogosphere,
is looking for Software Engineers in our Palo Alto headquarters to help us
build, maintain and improve the site. 

We’re working on solving problems related to crawling, geo-localization and
subject categorization of the news. Named entity disambiguation.
About-vs-mention discrimination. Heat and tone language detection.
Zero-configuration scalable crawling. All in-memory index serving.
On-the-fly category merging, clustering, de-duplication, and geo-spinning.

We supply local news to Ask Jeeves, AOL, Citysearch and Earthlink. And we
count the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Washington Post, USA Today, and
over 177 other publications as partners.  Our investors are the top three
newspapers in the US.


Required skills:
We'd like to talk if you have the following characteristics:

Experience in Apache, Linux, Perl and/or C
3+ years coding experience
Outstanding design skills 
Hands-on, thoroughly tests code before release 
Experience with web technology 
Likes working on a talented, self motivated team

URL for more information: http://www.topix.net/

Contact information at:
http://jobs.perl.org/job/4667#contact
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