About a month ago, Max Ventilla the CEO over at The Mechanical Zoo sent me an email wondering if I’d be interested in a position at their stealth startup. He gave me a brief description of what they were working on and told me about all the cool people on their team.
What are they working on? Social search technology that will help you use the power of your networks to search (Think networks like Facebook, email etc).
I was salivating. It sounded so awesome. I’m pretty sure that social search is going to be one of the next big things to hit the Internet and The Mechanical Zoo has assembled an impressive team to take a stab at being a first-mover.
They have lot’s of ex-Googlers, Yahoos etc on their current 12-man team. Search Engine Land reports that they are looking for hires in the following areas:
The 12-man team is looking for a few good people. So what skills would you need? AJAXy web development; rapid prototyping and development with rails; new paradigms of data availability and access (OpenSocial); distributed systems and large datasets; statistics; algorithms; NLP and machine learning; recommendation systems; usability research; online community building; and data-driven marketing.
Sound interesting? Then drop them a line or check out their jobs page.
I felt that it would be OK to write this post since it looks like The Mechanical Zoo has leaked what they are working on to the Techmeme crowd. You can read plenty more over on Techmeme or CNET.
