Rocket Fuel ignited in May 2008 with a significant series A financing led by a top-tier venture capital firm. Our founding team members have been through three IPO's and helped create companies worth billions of dollars. We're now working together to disrupt online advertising, an industry with global revenues of $80 Billion in three years. Our CEO was a machine learning researcher once upon a time, so this is a company where you'll never get frustrated at management's inability to see the value in advanced technology.
We're currently 7 people, so this is a unique opportunity to shape our future and share in our success in a significant way. Respond soon and you'll be able to say you met us when we were in our first office. :)
Do you ever find yourself playing the role of frustrated technologist, stuck inside a company that just can't leverage all of your brainpower and energy? A company that either just fundamentally can't appreciate how it can become great via superior technology, or has become so circumspect and tentative that innovation has slowed to a glacial pace?
Life is shorter than you think -- quit wasting your time and work for a company and executive team that gets technology!
Our CEO watched way too much Star Trek at an impressionable age, resulting in a short term interest in model rocketry (eyebrows grew back) and lifelong interest in artificial intelligence. He learned to code in third grade, just built a robot this weekend, and picked up a CS PhD from Stanford and then an "MBA the hard way" by working in various sales, marketing, and general management roles for the last decade. Good at picking winners, he's been through two IPO's at E.piphany and salesforce.com, and part of intrapreneurial teams at IBM and Yahoo! that grew 50x during his tenure.
Our President was literally a rocket scientist at NASA Ames before stints at three groundbreaking online advertising companies -- NetGravity, DoubleClick, and Yahoo! -- leading business units and product initiatives that were #1 in their areas and well-regarded in the industry for delivering business performance using innovative technology.
Our VP of Engineering won the best paper award at SIGMOD in 2003, and at his last job grew a team from 1 to 40 engineers, in the process hiring a guy who won the SIGMOD best paper award in 2006. His team delivered an industry-leading ad targeting solution driving hundreds of millions in sales, and building a recommendation engine that helped drive his company's comparison shopping site to #1 in the industry.
With all the randomness in the global economy, the one constant is that more and more people are spending more and more time online. This makes advertisers spend more money online, which helps more companies provide more innovative free services to yet more people, who spend more time online as a result, and the virtuous cycle continues.
With $11 Billion in M&A activity last year, online advertising is clearly an area of significant interest and opportunity for investors, and that $11 Billion swept away many of the up-and-coming players that would have otherwise driven the field forward with technological innovation. With all of them focusing on integrating with their corporate acquirers, there is a lot of oxygen in the room for new companies like ourselves to become great.
The gap between today's offerings and what the ad industry and web publishers need is clear and well-documented. Even ex-Star-Trek actors are complaining about AdSense and other ad networks ("a complete joke and colossal waste of time and space" -- Will Wheaton, celebrity blogger and Wesley Crusher from STTNG). Online media is ridiculously hard to buy compared with traditional media, due to the manual nature of current offerings.
We are hiring for the following key positions in our team.
Rocket Fuel Inc's quantitative ad network will need innovative, clear visualizations of ad campaign performance and amazingly great and simple interfaces to give customers control over their campaigns. We want to find a star who's able to move fast, think out of the box and come up with innovative and usable products. We plan to take a studio approach and leverage multiple designers, so we're looking for someone who can be handson and also manage multiple remote teams. This is a great opportunity to build cool products from scratch in a very early stage start-up.
Job Functions :
Requirements :
Highly Desirable:
We look forward to hearing from you!
Principals only.
If interested, you are welcome to contact careers@rocketfuelinc.com
and we'd appreciate it if you could also submit your resume:
Rocket Fuel Inc's quantitative ad network will be driven by high-performance algorithms and reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. We are hiring senior scientific engineers who can implement scalable machine learning algorithms on terabytes of data and billions of rows to discover correlations and patterns that become a part of our ad server. This is a hands-on role perfect for someone who is truly both a scientist and an engineer.
Job Functions:
Requirements:
Highly Desirable:
We look forward to hearing from you!
Principals only.
If interested, you are welcome to contact careers@rocketfuelinc.com
and we'd appreciate it if you could also submit your resume:
Rocket Fuel Inc's quantitative ad network will be driven by high-performance algorithms and reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. We are hiring senior engineers to build a high transaction (~10-15k/s) ad server and large scale (~500G/ day) data streaming and analytics pipeline. This is a great opportunity to build these systems from scratch in a very early stage start-up.
Job Functions :
Requirements :
Highly Desirable:
We look forward to hearing from you!
Principals only.
If interested, you are welcome to contact careers@rocketfuelinc.com
and we'd appreciate it if you could also submit your resume:
Rocket Fuel Inc's quantitative ad network will be driven by high-performance algorithms and reliable, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. We are hiring senior engineers to build a high transaction (~10-15k/s) ad server and large scale (~500G/ day) data streaming and analytics pipeline. This is a great opportunity to build operations infrastructure from scratch and run operations in a very early stage start-up.
Job Functions :
Requirements :
We look forward to hearing from you!
Principals only.
If interested, you are welcome to contact careers@rocketfuelinc.com
and we'd appreciate it if you could also submit your resume: