Thorn is searching for software engineers to join our engineering team to help build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. The team’s current areas of focus include human trafficking, dark web child abuse/exploitation content, and social media platform safety.

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 — including adaptive crawling, statistical analysis, search, machine learning (NLP, computer vision, sentiment analysis), data pipeline development, and UX design.

Requirements:

• Professional software development experience

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Adept at quickly learning new technologies

• Experience implementing, testing, and deploying code to production

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Skilled at rapidly prototyping applications

• Ability to collaboratively solve problems with internal and external stakeholders

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Clear, efficient, and eloquent communicator — we are a distributed team, so written communication is crucial, from Slack to pull requests