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Current Jobs Available: Perl Developer

Rapid Intelligence offers:

Small, innovative team
Opportunity to use diverse range of skills
Employer with unique philosophy

We are looking for a perl programmer to extract data from various sources and help maintain and develop the perl backends for our large-scale consumer websites.

Required

Advanced Perl - particularly in data processing
Experience with web-based agents (bots)
Experience with CPAN
Experience in installing executable software within a linux environment calling them from within Perl code
Some understanding of statistics
Web experience
Good communication skills
Pragmatic approach

Any experience you have in bots, natural language processing, data mining, stats or PHP will be put to good use.

This is a full time position.

Location: This is a telecommute role. You may apply from anywhere in the world but you must have a fast, permanent internet connection and be a proven self-starter.

Please send your resume to
'rijobz@rapint.com' =~ s/z/s/;

And please include some sample code you've written that you feel is relevant.

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Press Releases

StateMaster launches today
11 APR 2006
StateMaster, a state comparison site and free educational resource, has been launched today, giving the general public an easy-to-use database which compares US states on several thousand stats. More »

Qwika Released!
17 FEB 2006
Rapid Intelligence has today released a beta of Qwika.com, a wiki search engine. The technology is designed from the ground up to work with wiki-based content and has number of unique features of interest to researchers and Wikipedia editors. It is the only search engine to index machine translated content, so that users may search for terms in their own language and see results translated from English. More »

NationMaster's Correlations tool is free!
5 NOV 2005
NationMaster.com, the world's largest online statistical database for country comparisons, has today announced free access to their correlation tools. This service allows the user to compare any two statistics (out of a database of over 5,700) in order to shed new light on information highly-useful to journalists, writers, professors and the general public.More »

FactBites Released!
14 MAR 2005
What do you get if you cross a search engine with an encyclopedia? The answer just arrived on the net - Factbites, a new approach to search. Under the slogan "where results make sense", Factbites provides searchers with full sentences about their search topic, rather than the sentence fragments most search engines offer. More »

Additional NationMaster Reviews:

Nielsen//NetRatings sees NationMaster as one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Educational Reference Sites. Note: this is a PDF file. If you do not have a PDF Reader, please click here for a free download.

Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade rolls out their list of Internet Gems: NationMaster.

AskMen.com rates NationMaster Best & Coolest Sites Around.

Dry Facts Transformed into Entertainment, a review of NationMaster by the Christian Science Monitor.