Aspiring Minds hiring R&D Engineers - 2012 & 2013 Batch
RNSIT Placement Cell
Greetings from RNSIT Placement & Training Centre,
Aspiring Minds, India's foremost assessment company is hiring engineers (Batch of 2011, 2012 & 2013) for its Research and Development team.
Place of posting: Gurgaon, India
Salary: 6L to 9.5L CTC (Minimum offered: 5.5L fixed + Bonus)
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA for applying for this position:
2. Have an AMCAT score of E > 500, L > 500, Q > 500, CP > 550 OR Within top 20% in your engineering class OR JEE RANK < 5000 OR AIEEE RANK < 10,000
looking for: Strong computer science concepts with great programming skills and exposure to machine learning. Eligibility criteria are given below.
Apply only if you meet the eligibility criteria
You can apply here: http://www.aspiringminds.in/rndHiring.php .
Please find detailed job description below.
Research and Development Engineer
The
individual will work as a part of the research team at Aspiring Minds
in developing solutions to real-world problems using state-of-art
machine learning techniques, computer science concepts and statistical
assessments. To be able to produce the best in market products, we not
only bring theoretical algorithms into the realm of practical
application, but more often than not, improve them. As a part of this
team, you will understand the kind of problems we are interested in,
translate them into computer science problems, read papers to understand
the state-of art developments in related areas in academia and industry
and cross-apply multiple research findings to develop new products or
enhance our current products. On a typical day, you might be spending
your time reading a paper, brainstorming ideas with colleagues, coding a
new algorithm (we enjoy this the most!) and analyzing results or
Thinking (with a capital T)!
Some computer science we routinely do: Statistical parameter estimation and inference, Probability density estimation, Regression/Classification, Program Analysis, Speech Analysis, Non-linear Modeling, etc.
You may want to work with us, if the following excites you:
* You want to be a part of a young, energetic and highly-qualified team.
* Opportunity to make impact excites you.
* You think you have ideas.
* You like hard problems.
* You want to do non-incremental tasks and have a passion to disrupt the market
The Concept
Aspiring Minds is a product based company that develops scientific assessment tools and prediction algorithms for the purpose of human capital evaluation. Aspiring Minds' products enable a match between applicants and jobs through a detailed assessment of their capabilities and skills. Our assessment product and proprietary predictive matching algorithms heavily use learning techniques combined with various computer science areas such as speech recognition, program analysis and linguistics. Our products are as varied as assessment of speech, personality, language skills to prediction of performance, attrition, promotion and career success.
More than 750,000 job applicants across India take our standardized test, AMCAT to make themselves and their skills visible to corporates. This makes AMCAT India's largest employability test. AMCAT helps the students get an interview opportunity and eventually a job matching his/her skill set. The corporates are able to identify and locate talent, which was hidden to them till now. Multiple statistical studies show that using AMCAT leads to better job-matching and higher productivity for our clients. A good job-matching algorithm helps making the labor (job) market more efficient and enable fair return to human capital. Aspiring Minds seeks to establish an efficient talent ecosystem in India.
A Brief about the Company
Aspiring Minds was started by alumni of IIT and MIT(USA) in 2007. Its advisory panel consists of Prof Tarun Khanna of Harvard Business School and Dr Una-May O'Reilly of MIT, USA. It works with corporates in multiple sectors ranging from IT, ITeS to hospitality, retail and microfinance. Some of its clients include HCL Technologies, Axis Bank, Accenture, Genpact, Accor Hotels, Sapient, Ericson, HP and many more. Its flagship test AMCAT has been taken by more than 750K applicants across more than 1100 institutions. It regularly publishes research reports on the employment ecosystem in India, which have been covered in leading print media like The Economist, Business Standard, Economic Times, etc. It was rated by Business Week as one of world's 25 most intriguing startups.