Position: Senior platform Engineer
Location: San Mateo, Ca

Details:
Leading Retailers Choose DemandTec (San Mateo, Ca)
Whether you look at the Chain Store Age 100, the Supermarket News Top 75, the STORES Top 100, or the Deloitte Global Powers of Retailing list, more top food and hardline retailers rely on DemandTec solutions for price, promotion, and markdown than any other vendor. In fact, within the top 25 of the Chain Store Age 100, more retailers have chosen DemandTec than all of our competitors combined.
Food and Hardline retailers that have deployed DemandTec price, promotion, and markdown optimization solutions account for 40% of the revenue generated by the Chain Store Age Top 100. They include over 35,000 stores and a total of $621 billion in annual retail sales.

DemandTec’s vision is for retailers and consumer products manufacturers to be able to work together collaboratively and efficiently, to blend art with science to understand consumer behavior, and to ultimately execute win-win plans that achieve their respective financial objectives and long-term loyalty to the brand or retail banner.

All without buying a single server.

In pursuit of this vision, DemandTec’s employees around the world are dedicated to achieving and continuously improving our ability to deliver on three strategic initiatives:

We will quantify consumer behavior within a scalable software-as-a-service platform by applying the industry’s most advanced science and analytics to data content from multiple sources.

We will integrate and optimize Pricing, Promotions, Assortment, Space, and Marketing decisions with software services based on that platform

And we will deploy all of the above on an online network of services and partner offerings that enables retailer-defined collaboration that improves effectiveness of plans and efficiency of the planning process for both retailers and consumer product manufacturers.

Senior platform Engineer

Primary Responsibilities:
Lead projects and interact with scientists, engineers, database administrators and the product management team to maintain and improve the existing modeling code
Development next generation consumer response models; document and test the validity of modeling assumptions, develop methods and tolls to expand modeling scope
Support the Operations team in troubleshooting of econometric modeling productions issues
Perform ad hoc diagnostic and exploratory queries and analyses

Required Skill Sets:
5+ years of experience in modeling (preferably in Econometrics)
Development experience with a statistical package such as S-Plus and/or SAS; programming experience with Java or other OO languages
Experience/ expertise in dealing with very large data files

Desired Skill Sets:
Unix experience; programming experience in S-Plus and Java
Experience conducting retail merchandising and/ or marketing analyses
Experience with the Agile development process
10+ years of work experience in modeling (preferably in Econometrics)

Required Education:
PhD in Econometrics/ Statistics or related field

We offer outstanding compensation/benefits package, with all employee receiving a bonus on top of their compensation.  We are setting the standard in both retail and consumer marketing.  Take advantage of this outstanding opportunity NOW!!!

Contact:
Please send your information to herbnj AT gmail DOT com