We build software and APIs that make a real difference in the world: we help people study less but learn more. We're not just another "adaptive learning" startup: our products are based on proven research, and learning science affects everything we do. We're also not really a startup: we've run a successful business using our technology in Japan for years, and we have a business model and partners already.
Thorn is a non-profit focused on building technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Working at Thorn gives you the opportunity to apply your skills, expertise and passions to directly impact the lives of vulnerable and abused children.
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If you are able to bring clarity to complexity and lightness to heavy problems, you might be a great fit for our team. You will work on our dark web investigation tool, as well as a variety of other projects. Examples of projects include our Child Finder Service, in which we apply computer vision to find missing children, and our Industry Toolkit, which will be used to clean online communities of child abuse. You will also participate in broad exploration to fight child abuse and trafficking.
The work spans engineering and data science topics from security to artificial intelligence β including adaptive crawling, statistical analysis, search, machine learning NLP, computer vision, sentiment analysis , data pipeline development, and UX design.
We transform data into over different services, adding new ones every day. We're processing billions of events each month, and maintaining the analytics infrastructure for companies like DigitalOcean, Atlassian, New Relic, and Docker. Our goal is to help companies learn from how their users interact with the products to build even better products. We also like to share our work and what we learn, here are some recent examples:.
