The Company 

Wink is the simpler way to a smarter home. Our industry-leading platform brings hundreds of products from the best brands together into the easy-to-use Wink mobile app. With Wink, you can seamlessly monitor, control, and automate your home in ways never possible before. Our goal is an ambitious one - to make the promise of the smart home a reality for everyone. We’re a talented, small, and scrappy team that’s disrupting the industry at warp speed while going head-to-head (and winning) against some of the biggest companies worldwide.

As an algorithms engineer you will be developing data driven algorithms that make the smart home smarter!

The Job 

• Create predictive models to estimate user engagement 
• Work with large amounts of data
• Identify opportunities that would help improve people's home experience 
• Apply predictive modeling techniques for a variety of user modeling tasks
• Work closely with experience designers to develop features that makes users' homes more comfortable and intelligent.
• Run a variety of different tests to optimize our users' experience.
• Recognize that sometimes (If not most times) the simple solution is the best solution

The Qualifications 

• Hands-on experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms for regression, classification, and clustering
• Hands-on experience analyzing large data sets
• Hands-on experience using structured and unstructured data, ideally in a HDFS-based store using some variation of MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Spark, or a SQL interface
• Proficient in Python
• Strong engineering experience in Python, C, C++ or Java.
• Familiar with A/B testing methodology and test analysis
• Familiar with classical statistics and time series analysis
• Predictive Analytics- Clustering, regression, neural networks, etc.
• M.S. or Ph.D. in one of the following: Computer Science (with focus on artificial intelligence, data mining, or machine learning), Astrophysics, Bioinformatics, Economics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Particle Physics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, or another quantitative scientific field

The Application

• Check us out at wink.com. Try out our app and products. Spend some time understanding what we do. If you think we are a good fit for each other, submit your resume along with a cover letter, letting us know why you want this job and why you are the perfect fit for us.

Wink is based in New York City and we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Competitive Compensation
• Health, Dental, Life and Vision Insurance
• Stock Options
• Generous Vacation Policy
• Progressive Work Environment
• Wink Products
• Work with an awesome dedicated group of people who are passionate about Wink and its products