- Company
- Navia Systems
- Location
- Berkeley, CA
- Added on
- 25/08/2010
- Keywords
- jquery web design
About the Company:
Why do some students perform better than others? Which debtors will default? Will there be a chain reaction? Which patients will respond to a treatment, and what pathway is responsible?
Increasingly, we are dependent on interpreting diverse, voluminous data. We seek to make sense of them, identify their underlying causes and, where possible, make precise and accurate predictions about the future.
Unlike addition or subtraction, however, these questions do not have definitive answers. At best, we may think we have an answer, but remain uncertain about its validity. At worst, we are so uncertain that we do not think there is an answer. Either way, our ability to acknowledge and quantify our uncertainty will determine whether we can find true and useful answers and act on them effectively.
This is what Navia is about. We design probabilistic computers, a new class of hardware and software that embraces uncertainty to generate inferences. Unlike current computers, which are built for logical deduction and precise arithmetic with no room for ambiguity, our computers are built for guessing the meaning behind inherently ambiguous data. Our first product, Veritable, solves challenging data interpretation and prediction problems in human health, policy, marketing and finance.
Our founders are a band of MIT graduates who have been working together for years, and we are backed by Founders Fund. We are passionate about helping people — and machines — understand their world and make better decisions. We believe probabilistic computing has the potential to spread as widely as the microprocessor and are working to realize this promise.
The ideal candidate:
You should be as passionate about design as you are about execution. A strong portfolio and a college degree are a must, but so is knowledge and experience with jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, canvas, and the like. Ideally, you have had experience with both data visualization and some exposure to back-end issues like deployment and authentication.
Job Description and responsibilities:
We are looking for a UX designer and front-end developer to design and build the user experience for our probabilistic computing products. Given that the user experience will define the product, you will be a core member of our product development team.
Our tools and solutions are incredibly powerful and can generate new insights around data and uncertainty that were not available before; this is the first time someone has ever had to understand this kind of output. As Navia’s UX designer, you will have the opportunity to define how our users experience and visualize these new insights.
While you will lead all of our design and user experience efforts in the long term, here is a sample of some of the issues we are working on:
- Building a collaborative, interactive development and visualization environment for our probabilistic programming language (think web-based Mathematica’s “notebooks,” with inference continually in the background).
- Showcasing the capabilities of probabilistic systems to prospective customers and users in creative ways.
- Designing the user experience for Veritable, our first product, which lets people see an entirely new class of patterns in their data, which we need to present in an effective and aesthetically pleasant way.
To apply:
If this sounds like a fit, send us an email at careers@naviasystems.com.