Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2015)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.
Please do not post recruiting firms or job boards.
PS. No April Fools Day content please.
999 comments
[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 521 ms ] threadWe are looking for eager, creative folks who partner well with PhD level researchers to create cool prototypes of research concepts.
We are the world’s leading public policy and decision making think tank. Read more about us here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Corporation or here: http://bit.ly/1ImrPH8 or here: http://rand.org
You will work on project teams of research staff and domain experts and will often be the sole software engineer on the project. Our group functions a lot like an internal software development consultancy.
For Research Software Engineer position, technical needs will vary by project so you should be a well-rounded generalist able to develop solutions in MORE THAN ONE of the following application areas: web, mobile, desktop, visualization, database, modelling & simulation, machine learning, and statistical analysis.
For Data Science Engineer position, similar to above but with your well-roundedness being more in the neighborhood of visual analytics and Hadoop/Spark/”Big Data” type skills.
Don’t be scared! You don’t have to be wizard at all these. The researchers provide the depth, you just provide the breadth, creativity, and eagerness to learn.
Good work life balance compared to startups and mainstream tech companies. 20 days of vacation per year that you are incentivized to take! Respectable salaries despite being a non-profit. Relocation package negotiable.
Ready yet? Shoot me your resume at: dev.hiring@rand.org
-Chris
Great to know Rand is hiring engineers!
I have worked with consulting engineers from Labor and Population department at RAND, and have visited HQ a few years ago. It is a great place to work!
I have a few questions about the position, could I send you email for inquiry? Thanks!
Elsen is building the next generation of market simulation software at the intersection of high performance computing, machine learning, and quantitative finance. We're a small, tight-knit team located in the finance district of downtown Boston.
We are looking for a software developer to help build out our infrastructure which is primarily written in Haskell, C, and Python. An expert knowledge of Haskell is not required, and we are primarily looking for quantitatively minded individuals with a strong familiarity with finance and the ability to implement these ideas in multiple programming languages.
Some things we look for in an candidate ( subset of the following ):
* Open source involvement
* Deep understanding of quantitative modeling * Postgres
* Understanding of various parallelism techniques (threads, software transactional memory, GPUs, distributed computing)
* Technical analysis with ta-lib
* Use of iteratee Haskell libraries (conduit/pipes)
* Experience with modern C development
* NumPy/SciPy/Pandas experience
* Willingness to play complex boardgames
* Overall fun-loving personality and good sense of humor
Contact: jobs@elsen.co
We are a small business working in government-related research and development. We're looking for highly skilled and self-motivated engineers to join our company.
- Proficiency with Javascript, Python, Java, and/or C#
- Experience with JS frameworks such as Knockout, Angular, Bootstrap, Backbone
- Familiar with end-to-end design in web development
- Solid problem solving skills in difficult domains
- Computer Science or related degree, or equivalent knowledge and experience
We are a successful, growing business of approximately 35 employees located in Fairfax, VA. We are an extremely fun, creative, and family-oriented company.
Our passion lies in designing and programming elegant and efficient software particularly in the geospatial domain (knowledge of Leaflet, tiling, caching, computational geometry, and/or GIS is a plus but by no means a requirement).
We offer an extremely competitive salary and benefits package with spectacular health care coverage.
Send your resume to careers@rgi-corp.com, and please mention Hacker News in your email. Also, feel free to reply if you have any questions.
Looking for someone with a bunch of experience under their belt to work with some of the people who have had the most impact on the Cocoa community. Articles like this, http://www.objc.io/issue-22/artsy.html resonate with you and you want to try improve accessibility to the arts.
We're a fun & diverse bunch, https://github.com/artsy/mobile/ and do great things together.
Rocketmiles (recently acquired by Priceline) is looking to grow our in-house development team at our headquarters in Chicago, IL.
We're looking for several experienced backend developers (Java/Grails) and one front-end developer (angular.js).
Rocketmiles helps frequent travelers be heroes at home and vacation faster by accruing loyalty miles or points just for booking hotels.
Interested? Please email me directly. jordan@rocketmiles.com
* Jr. Software Engineer - STARTING SEPT 2015
Before any meeting, Charlie automatically researches the people you’re about to meet with. Our users love us and we spread fast in every company that uses Charlie. We’ve raised $1.8M (http://bit.ly/charlie-techcrunch) and are looking for talented developers to join our team.
We get to work on really challenging problems (how do you distill someone down to one page?) We’ve built Charlie on Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, RSpec, Capybara, and it lives on an elastic server farm. We iterate fast, practice continuous delivery, we’re process-driven, and very test-focused. We're a small dev that loves to code, and constantly pushes each other, and learns from each other. We have fun and get weird.
We’re looking for passionate, self-motivated software engineers who want to make an impact on an early-stage company (Ruby, iOS, and front-end). If this sounds like you, drop us a line and let’s talk!
Apply Interested? Apply here: https://charlieapp.com/jobs
Check out http://www.hooklogic.com/about/careers/ to learn more about our products, company and culture and apply. Or email resumes to abby.wilhelmi@hooklogic.com
QUALIFICATIONS Desired Skill Set:
• 5+ years continuous experience with UX Design and Development • Expertise in HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, bootstrap, angular, backbone and Web Services • Strong educational background: Bachelor/Master degree in CS or other technical/design degree • Good sense of design aesthetic and what makes a fantastic user experience • Strong debugging and problem solving skills • Disciplined approach to development, testing, and quality assurance
Preferred experience: • Responsive design & development • Professional experience with high-scalability systems • Database Design and Administration, SQL & T-SQL Query writing • Experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET, WCF, SQL Server, or Windows Services
We are revolutionizing the oil and gas industry, very well funded, have begun selling our product, and are looking for the right people to share in ownership. Tachyus is the most fun and rewarding environment you will ever work in. We work with real physical devices and processes in technology and the natural world. You will work closely with 3 PhDs, 2 Masters of Science, and 4 Microsoft MVPs. We take our Values statement seriously, so read it first and decide. http://tachyus.com/whoweare/
Data Physicist, http://tachyus.com/joinus/data-physicist.html
Our data physics team develops algorithms to handle disparate data sets and provide intelligence critical to field operations. You command a detailed scientific understanding of the way the world works to constrain a problem space and arrive at real-world insight quickly. You bring your experience doing quantitative analysis (data science) and physical modelling as well as intense intellectual curiosity demonstrated by past projects and experiences. You must love digging for wisdom in large, complex data sets and possess fluency in a language commonly used for scientific technical computing (Mathematica, MatLAB, Python, etc).
Data Engineer, http://tachyus.com/joinus/data-engineer.html
The successful candidate is an engineer with strong computer software skills, including database and SQL skills, programming experience in at least one modern language (Java, C#, F#, C++, etc.), and strong math and statistics skills, preferably including experience using R, SAS, Mathematica, Matlab, or scientific computing in Python. The Data Engineer draws on data science and statistics skills to analyze inbound data, assess its quality, and decide whether it’s fit for consumption by Tachyus algorithms. Along the way, he/she uses those same skills to build tools for automating data acquisition, cleaning, quality analysis, and ongoing reporting of those metrics, exceptions, and other statistical information.
Senior Front End Engineer, http://tachyus.com/joinus/senior-front-end-engineer.html
The Tachyus platform provides rich data visualization and analysis capabilities in the browser using D3 and Kendo UI. We build our front-end applications in JavaScript and are in the process of transitioning parts to TypeScript. We believe in functional programming and strong typing. The ideal candidate has deep experience building web applications using the single-page application (SPA) paradigm and feel comfortable reading our back-end F# code to understand the mechanics of the APIs consumed by the front-end. Lots of opportunities to work on interesting visualizations including geographic applications.
Correctness Engineer, http://tachyus.com/joinus/correctness-engineer.html
The Correctness Engineer is an amalgam of Software Engineer and Quality Engineer who (with help from subject matter experts and the Science team) develops and manages the artifacts and processes that ensure the correctness of all Tachyus products and services. These include (but are not limited to) the Test Infrastructure, Test Data Sets, Test Plans, Test Scenarios/Cases, Automated Tests and Gap Analyses. The successful Correctness Engineer recognizes the importance of conducting the role as an engineering discipline and not a “quality control” process. You must have have an understanding of functional programming and modern tools like QuickCheck/FsCheck. Experience with F# is a plus.
For more information, complete description of roles, and details on applying, please see http://adgear.com/company/careers/
Please make sure to CC lp at adgear.com with your email to jobs at adgear.com so we know you're from HN :)
We’re growing quickly and currently hiring engineers number 4, 5, and 6. You can check out a list of open positions at https://www.thinknum.com/jobs.
If you have any questions, please email us at founders@thinknum.com.
Location: Austin, Texas Citizenship Required
Keywords: REMOTE (For principal positions)
Positions: Directory of Security Research, Security Engineer (Penetration Tester). More details at http://www.praetorian.com/company/careers.
Why Join Praetorian? Praetorian strongly encourages company paid security training, company paid attendance to major conferences such as BlackHat, DEFCON, and AppSec USA, and company paid bench time to do the research you enjoy. In addition, Praetorian offers competitive salaries and benefits that include health, dental, vision, life, and short term disability coverage, as well as a 4% company match for 401k.
Praetorian fosters a startup culture that is both challenging and rewarding. We're always looking for talented software and security professionals to join our team. If you are looking for a fast-paced environment with no red tape to cut through, read more about us at http://www.praetorian.com/company.
To Apply: Please send resumes to careers@praetorian.com and mention this post. Part of the interview process involves the completion of one of our technical challenges. If you would like to get a head start, please view our tech challenges at http://www.praetorian.com/challenges/.
Which would be awesome!
Clearly, that should read: "Austin, Texas\nCitizenship Required"
At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first sensor network is for wireless signal [1] where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills. We also recently raised our $4million series A [4] from Qualcomm Ventures, O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures & Passion Capital so are growing fast.
More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/ Email us: join@opensignal.com
[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...
[2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...
[3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/
[4] OpenSignal Series A: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/05/opensignal-series-a/
Recent HN post! (help us solve the problems mentioned) Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8238260
We're building one of the most important apps on mobile, an urban transport app built on the back of open data, to help navigate and use cities.
We're a VC-backed startup (Balderton, Index, Greylock, Connect) based in London with a team with backgrounds from Google, academia and startups.
We're looking for great people first and foremost, but especially the following roles:
- Platform engineer. Be responsible for our infrastructure in the cloud, shape the tool chain, and ensure that the moving parts of our system can communicate, so that we can expand to all the cities in the world.
- Routing. We're reinventing getting from A to B in the world of mobile, multi modal and real-time data.
- Android and iOS developers. We're reimagining mobile interfaces and developing all the features that we dream about. You care about the "little big details" and know the grotty implementation details required to make things work across a range of devices and future platforms.
- Data pipeline/data science/analytics. We're building an omnivorous transport data processor that fuses together loads of data sources, and a psychic city brain.
- Software engineers. We're looking for great engineers to solve a range of other big problems, including search, data analysis, natural language processing. We use a lot of P Python, and some C and Java.
If interested, please contact me at emil@citymapper.com or apply at https://citymapper.com/jobs.
Silk [1] is looking for DevOps, Front-end and JavaScript/TypeScript Engineers.
Our product lets people publish structured data on the web and makes it easy for people to query, visualize, publish and share their data. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring a structured, machine-readable web to the masses and build an amazing company around that. In many ways, we're becoming like "Github for Data".
We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end [2]. Silk is well-funded by top-tier VCs (NEA and Atomico) and we're located in the city center of Amsterdam.
For more info & open positions: https://jobs.silk.co/
[1] https://www.silk.co/
[2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.
And conquer we shall! We've grown 100% quarter over quarter all last year and another 100% just in the last month. Our team has surged to 30+ people and the waves of revenue washed together to form a rushing roar with just one of our products going from nothing to $200k/month in under a year.
Being a media company we find our way into all kinds of cool stuff. Our office is furnished with things like a $3000 high-end bed that was sent to us to review. We got to talk to and get pictures with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) when they came to Detroit.
But, you interject, finance is one of the toughest startup seas to sail upon! The old boys club runs an ironclad ship with no visible decks for boarding. Avast! We've built a battering ram of a business in just a few short years that has pummeled its way deep into the heart of Wall Street. Old Ironsides has warmed itself to Benzinga and once a taste the thirst cannot be quenched.
And if you happen to trade or invest yourself you'll find us inside almost all of the major brokerages in the US. So, where do you fit in this rigging, you swashbuckling scalawag? Well, our team is crazy ambitious, motivated, and experienced with shaking shit up. If you know your tech, and want on deck this is the place to do it. Your exact technical background and language of choice doesn't matter as much as your motivation and your ability to adapt quickly.
Why be a ninja when you can be a pirate? This ship is forging a new course, send an email to careers@benzinga.com to board! Email us now: careers@benzinga.com
Check us out: http://marketfy.com and http://benzinga.com
Square! In 2013 we opened an office in NYC in SoHo. We've grown to nearly a hundred people across all disciplines and are working on building two of the highest impact products at Square.
In NYC we're looking for:
* Fullstack Engineers: work across Square's systems, from the money moving infrastructure that touched tens of billions of dollars last year, to one of the largest Ember.js apps in the world.
* Product managers: Help shape a product used by millions of businesses of all sizes.
* Product designers: work with the 80/20 team that we acquired in 2012
If you're interested, I'd love to chat and tell you more. Shoot me an email with you resume! wkm@squareup.com
We can sponsor VISAs.
http://square.jobs
We need a backend oriented developer with great knowledge about scalability, security, and architecture to work with our team in Stockholm, Sweden.
Our current system is distributed as a few micro-services running node.js. Other stuff we use include: websockets, REST, mongodb, express, angular.js, heroku.
Apply to henric@weld.io
test our tool at https://www.weld.io
http://pressurenet.io
We're building high-accuracy weather forecasts using barometers in smartphones. You will architect and build our server infrastructure to collect, store, analyze and distribute this data. We currently receive 5M measurements per day from 400,000 devices and are scaling quickly. The data comes from crowdsourcing apps like PressureNet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
Our current server is in Python, using Django, hosted on AWS, and is open source: https://github.com/Cbsoftware/PressureNet-server
You will have the freedom to choose new technology if you see fit. Eventually, you will also work with our Numerical Weather Prediction team to take the data you've processed and input it to high-resolution weather models. Machine learning experience would be helpful.
Equity: ~10%
Salary: TBD
Remote work possible.
Contact: I'm Jacob, CEO, email me: jacob@cumulonimbus.ca
Senior developer, C / C++ / Windows
Looking for experienced developers to help expanding our existing product into a suite of complimentary products and services (https://bvckup2.com).
Basic requirements - Solid C/C++ with a focus on producing lean and efficient code; considertable experience developing and shipping software for the Windows platform.Good to have - Knowing one's way around Linux, both the development toolchain and the shell; PHP, JS, SQL; people skills for communicating with users.
Nice to have - Embedded and kernel development experience.
Ideally, you should be reasonably comfortable with all elements of a system that allows controlling a Windows app through an externally hosted web interface - from Windows, through the network to the PHP/SQL backend to the HTML/JS web frontend.
The company is built around the notion of "doing one simple thing, but doing it really well." This doesn't mean creating simplistic software, but rather having a single primary function that captures one specific user need and then providing a host of supporting features to make things simple and convenient. This is a fairly alien approach on Windows where the software still tends to compete on the length of the feature list first and foremost. However, the good news is that there is a substantial demand for simpler, but better-made software. This is what we do.Prior to founding Pipemetrics, I was the principal person behind Hamachi VPN service (http://swapped.cc/hamachi).
Get in touch - hello-at-pipemetrics.com / alex-at-pipemetrics.comMachine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Engineer (Java/R/Python)
Scry Analytics, Inc. is building several Big Data Science solutions related to specific problems and is looking to hire a Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence Engineer with the following qualifications:
Desired Qualifications:
* Preferably Masters in Computer Science, Statistics, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering or other quantitative field, or a Bachelors with a minimum of two years experience developing big data products.
* Thorough knowledge and experience in machine learning, support vector machines, classification and clustering techniques, Bayesian and nearest neighbor networks.
* Possesses strong combination of theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience in statistical and computer science techniques.
* Experience with Java and either Python or R.
* Highly motivated with the ability to work on multiple projects
* Team player with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong communication and collaboration skills
* Familiar with scripting and command-line operations
Good to have:
* Experience analyzing very large datasets.
* Experience with natural language processing techniques and text analytics.
* Experience with parallel, distributed, and high-performance computing.
Scry Analytics (www.scryanalytics.com) provides Big Data Science solutions to do predictive and prescriptive analytics (i.e., to "forecast the future") and our aim is to:
* Codify work-flows in the services industries so that they are well-defined & repeatable.
* Collate and harmonize client's data that is required for such work-flow systems.
* Provide Scry Analytics' proprietary data that improves the key performance indicators and the characteristics of such work-flow systems.
* Use our proprietary Big Data Science platform as well as deep Computer Science & Math algorithms to build decision support systems that improve the metrics related to these work-flows.
Although Scry Analytics provides analytics and Big Data Science services, our aim is to minimize these services by providing automation and software solutions (where we can). We are currently solving problems in the following domains:
* Retail
* Banking and Insurance
* Inventory & Transportation of After Market Parts; Maintenance
* Utilities and Telecom
* Health care
Since most techniques that Scry Analytics is using are taken from cutting-edge research, the kind of solutions that Scry Analytics is building are unlikely to be built by companies that provide data analysts in a staff augmentation mode or those that provide IT professionals. So, we are looking for Bachelors, Masters, and PhDs in computer science, data analytics or math that have a "research" or "advanced development" bent.
UX designer
Product manager
Technical account manager
Help desk coordinator
Senior technical consultant
Senior devops engineer
http://akvo.org/about-us/working-at-akvo/
Akvo creates and runs open source internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development work online. We focus on project dashboards and making data easier to collect, visualise & share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world. Currently, we have 59 staff located in hubs in Amsterdam, London, Stockholm, Delhi, Bangalore, Nairobi, Ouagadougou and Denpasar, as well as other locations.
We are engineers rebuilding the infrastructure that powers global finance. Current technology in the space is broken and opaque; it enables scandals like Bernie Madoff to go on for a decade while $64 billion vanishes from the economy. We're building a platform around transparency and connectedness to encourage responsibility and reward good decision making.
We are currently on the lookout for software engineers, along with a motivated security expert with in-depth knowledge of industry best practices to join our team. For more information please visit careers.addepar.com. Or email careers [at] Addepar [dot] com.
python/java developers
# About Us
Here at Tastebud, we are obsessed with creating mobile experiences that personalize the world around you. Through a combination of sophisticated algorithms and meaningful data, we are one of the first companies to create a personalized brick and mortar shopping experience. Best of all, we are profitable with a live product that is providing real results.
# About the Team
We are an smart and experienced group of software engineers and data scientists. Whether it is understanding the dynamic and complex relationships around large data sets, designing the greatest mobile experiences, or building the best recommendation engine on the planet, we are strongly focused and determined on solving the most challenging problems.
We are currently building the next generation of mobile applications, all powered by our extensive experience in personalization. We understand the value in stable, established frameworks and patterns, but we aren't afraid to jump into new technologies when the opportunity rises. We enjoy great clean code, but understand that sometimes you need to hack something out. We are fans of open source and aim to contribute back when we can. We enjoy working with smart people who can get things done.
# About You
You understand mobile. You have gone from idea to app store, quite possibly more than once. You know a great mobile-centric API when you see one, even better if you have designed one yourself. You understand the challenges that the app store brings and know how to work around them. You know how to iterate and build a product that delights our users. You enjoy the ability, freedom and encouragement to develop our mobile strategy.
We can offer a competitive salary, a great office in downtown Chicago, a flexible schedule, and a few cool office perks.
Interested? Send us a quick email: jobs@tastebud.co
Email abby.wilhelmi@hooklogic.com with resumes or questions
As a Software Engineer on the Data Science team you’ll work closely with our Data Scientists to determine a proper approach to storing, accessing, and processing big data and managing our machine learning models. You’ll be building and expanding the software infrastructure and frameworks that our Data Scientists leverage to create and deploy machine learning models. At your disposal will be a wide variety of languages and technologies that you can use to solve problems. You’ll also be able to learn about bleeding-edge technologies in order to find new ways to help with our data science and big data needs.
Exp: Scala, C#, Java languages AWS Big Data: Spark, Hadoop, Hive, DynamoDB, and HBase
HookLogic was founded in 2004 to understand and influence shopper decisions. Our Engineering Team is a critical factor in our company’s record of success. We build and maintain the suite of industry-defining marketing products that compete with–and beat–the likes of Google and Amazon. We’ve expanded our product suite and won multiple game-changing clients over the past year. To keep pace with growth, we’re hiring engineers with experience in all areas of the development stack. Check out www.hooklogic.com to learn more about our products, company and culture.