Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2014)

[+] nrp|12 years ago|reply

Oculus VR - https://careers.oculusvr.com/ - Irvine, CA

Help us bring Virtual Reality to the people! Oculus is up to over 60 people (primarily engineers), and we are expanding quickly. In addition to a huge variety of positions in Irvine, CA, Oculus is looking for software engineers in Dallas, Tx.

A few of the positions that are especially important to us right now are:

* Web Services Engineer - Architect and implement the APIs behind our platform.

* Senior Android Engineer - We're looking for experts in kernel, system level, and/or graphics programming on Android in both Dallas and Irvine.

* Embedded Systems Engineer - We need hardware hackers in Irvine to help define, prototype, and program the systems going into future projects.

* Computer Vision Engineer - We're looking for engineers with a strong 3d math background and experience with computer vision research and algorithms.

* Senior Audio Engineer - We're looking for an audio expert with experience with positional audio and HRTFs.

The full set of job listings you can apply to is at https://careers.oculusvr.com/

You can also email me directly at [email protected]

[+] bennyg|12 years ago|reply

I feel like every time I see an Oculus post in these threads I get really excited for mobile work then see that you're still only hiring for Android. Any reason no iOS love?

[+] lutorm|12 years ago|reply

SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA - http://spacex.com (US citizen/PR only)

You've probably heard of SpaceX -- we build and fly rockets! Check out http://youtu.be/DjpUf__4vPA and http://youtu.be/9ZDkItO-0a4.

What you might not know is that we need software engineers. Some of the positions we are looking to fill currently are:

Lead front-end software engineer - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3895

Software engineer for Borg, our flight data logging and analysis system - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3366

Simulations software engineer, writing the software used to fool the flight software into thinking it's in space - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3858

[+] samk9080|12 years ago|reply

Is this onsite only or remote/telecommute for the right candidate?

[+] sherjilozair|12 years ago|reply

Do you consider foreign applications? Asked this a few months back too.

[+] rdl|12 years ago|reply

Meta: I wish this bot would submit threads on the first Tuesday after the first of each month, so employers who work M-F would be more likely to see and post. Tuesday around 10a to noon Pacific time seems to have the best chance of covering the majority of HN audience.

[+] sharjeel|12 years ago|reply

Perhaps employers should be smart enough to write their bots too?

[+] pbiggar|12 years ago|reply

CircleCI (https://circleci.com/jobs) - SF or REMOTE fulltime (in the US)

At CircleCI we're building the next generation of developer automation: amazing Continuous Integration and Deployment. We have traction and revenue and funding and great customers. Our customers love us, because we move quickly, build great things, and provide amazing support. Everyone talks to customers a lot.

We're still a small team, so you'll have a large impact on company culture. We're highly influenced by Valve's Employee handbook and Stripe and GitHub's cultures, and have as flat a structure as we can.

We're looking for frontend engineers (JS), designers (must be able to HTML+CSS), and backend engineers (Clojure). Being a mix of those is of course welcome! We lean towards senior experienced engineers, or junior engineers who can display great talent.

We're also looking for engineers for sales and marketing positions. Since we have an incredibly technical product, and selling directly to developers, the marketing positions (dev evangelism, CRO, analytics, etc - think a patio11-style engineer) require significant development experience. Sales positions are a good fit for engineers looking for a change, esp those who love automating manual processes.

Check out our jobs page at https://circleci.com/jobs.

[+] cryptoz|12 years ago|reply

Toronto, Canada: pressureNET atmospheric modeller

About us:

We collect about 1 million measurements of the atmosphere every day from Android smartphones. We're specifically collecting barometric pressure for use in new weather models: models that you will build, models that will produce higher accuracy and higher resolution weather forecasts than anyone has ever made.

The position:

Cliff Mass and his team [1] have done some preliminary research and testing of models. You will bring these into our company and begin running them in real-time to forecast weather events. You must be familiar with WRF and FORTRAN and have a degree in Atmospheric Science or a related field. You can learn more about our atmosphere platform (and even get an API key to start early) at http://pressurenet.io. You will be employee #1. Stock options and compensation to be discussed.

[1] http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~cliff/cliff.php

[+] gdb|12 years ago|reply

Stripe. We're hiring engineers in San Francisco and remotely within US timezones. INTERN, REMOTE, H1B all welcome.

See http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem... for an overview of what challenges we're working on.

If you're interested, you can apply through the email links on https://stripe.com/jobs. If you have any questions, feel free to ping me directly at [email protected].

[+] rahij|12 years ago|reply

I've shot you an email. Thanks!

[+] bignoggins|12 years ago|reply

Sunnyvale, CA - Yahoo Fantasy Sports

If you're a hacker who loves sports, Yahoo Fantasy Sports is looking for iOS & Android developers to help us build amazing mobile experiences. Great pay/perks, an awesome team, and the chance to work on a product used by millions of hardcore fans around the world.

The fantasy mobile team at Yahoo includes of 2 acquired startups (Loki Studios & Bignoggins Productions), so we've got a startup culture within a big company.

We're looking for people with at least a year of native iOS/Android experience. If you have an app on the store that's a big plus!

If interested, please send your resume/github/app links to [email protected]

Here's a commercial from last year's fantasy football campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61DQGOzpdpE

[+] zt|12 years ago|reply

San Francisco -- Standard Treasury (YC S13)

Standard Treasury helps banks harness the power of developers and developer ecosystems by building, hosting, maintaining, and supporting white-labeled and co-branded developer platforms for banks worldwide.

Our platform wraps internal bank information and payment systems using our middleware. We then securely expose these systems to bank customers via standardized RESTful APIs. We empower the middleware and APIs, associated software development kits (SDKs) and application stores, while providing support, partner engineering, growth engineering, and more, for our bank partners.

We are looking to hire:

Platform Engineers

Infrastructure Engieners

Bank Integration Engineers

User Interface Engineers

Designers

We offer great comp:

Great benefits. Medical, vision, and dental insurance for you and your dependents.

Great comp. Salary and equity. We know some people have a greater risk appetite than others and we’re interested in finding the right balance for you.

Great perks. Free breakfast, lunch, and dinner, snacks, a stocked fridge, laundry service, gym membership, Clipper card, and house cleaning by Homejoy.

Great flexibility. Flexible hours, open vacation policy, paid maternity/paternity.

Great tools. Build your ideal workstations so you can have the tools you want and need. Buy the books you need or want on Amazon. Need a Kindle for your commute — get it. The corporate Amex can be used for all expenses under a standard of trust & reasonableness.

You can see our job postings and apply at https://jobs.lever.co/standardtreasury or just email me (one of the co-founders) at [email protected].

[+] whitef0x|12 years ago|reply

shot you an email with some questions. thanks

[+] trefn|12 years ago|reply

San Francisco, CA

Mixpanel (YCS09; http://mixpanel.com) is the most advanced advanced analytics platform ever for web & mobile applications.

Mixpanel is profitable, with millions in monthly revenue, and we're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Max Levchin.

ENGINEERING POSITIONS

We have two types of engineering positions available - systems and product. Both of these positions require you to be able to work in San Francisco, CA.

Systems engineers build and scale our infrastructure, and write mostly C, C++, and Python. These are the people working on our custom datastore. This position requires at least 2 years of experience writing systems software. Solid C experience is a plus.

Product engineers are full-stack developers who build the parts people interact with - reporting interfaces, APIs, dataviz stuff, and more - and write mostly Python, JS, and Less. This position requires at least 2 years of software engineering experience, no specialization required. Solid JS experience is a plus though.

The engineering team is still small (10), and there's a lot of interesting stuff to do. Happy to talk details.

If you are interested, drop me a line - [email protected].

[+] zerr|12 years ago|reply

Any remote possibilities from Europe for the right candidate?

[+] ascheink|12 years ago|reply

FiveThirtyEight - Computational Journalist - New York

We're looking for a Ruby on Rails developer to architect and build systems that collect, process and present real-time data and predictions about sports, politics, economics, science and lifestyle topics; to create interactive features and data visualizations; and to design and develop tools and data management systems that will power the world's first data-oriented newsroom.

Candidates should be full-stack programmers, with deep experience using modern programming languages (Python, Ruby, Javascript), web frameworks (Rails, Django, node.js) and relational and document-based data stores (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB).

Bonus points for experience working with government and politics data, a background in journalism or talent with statistics, information design or writing.

To apply, send an email w/ your Twitter and GitHub accounts to [email protected] with the words COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALIST in the subject line.

[+] pixelmonkey|12 years ago|reply

Parse.ly - Remote (EST / CST preferred) - http://parse.ly

We're a fully distributed team (see http://bit.ly/distributed-teams for a post by me, the CTO) -- which is to say, a merit-based, technology-forward, super-bright team of Pythonistas who happen to collaborate using the same methods of major open web projects like Wikipedia, Wordpress, Ubuntu, and Mozilla.

We are well-funded with a solid SaaS business model, we are growing, and we are product-focused.

We're looking to expand our engineering team. We are primarily looking for full-stack and UI-focused engineers, especially those with expertise in front-end data visualization / interaction. You should know modern web and mobile design principles and be particularly excited by d3.js and its associated ecosystem.

You'd be joining the company at a great time. Our engineering team is still small enough that we feel like an elite task force, but unlike two years ago, we are making millions in revenue and have a ridiculous amount of data to draw insight out of on behalf of our customers.

You should be an expert in Python and JavaScript. You should be willing to learn, or already know, technologies like Tornado, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, and Amazon Web Services. You should be extremely handy at a UNIX command line, possessing all the skills of a sysadmin.

If you join, you'd become part of a team that is building one of the web's greatest analytics companies, while also serving a strong mission: helping editors and writers at top news organizations excel in the digital medium.

Our software aggregates data on >5 billion pageviews per month of traffic, and we work with major media companies as customers, such as The Atlantic, Arstechnica, Mashable, The New Republic, MIT Technology Review, and many more.

Apply by sending a (short!) cover letter to [email protected]. Mention this HN post and say you're looking for Andrew.

Include links to online portfolio, Github, LinkedIn, or any similar services, if you have them. If you have a Python code example that you think expresses your Python coding style, that would also be a good thing to send along -- as plain attachment, Github Gist, or similar.

[+] justinsteele|12 years ago|reply

Your 1 minute demo video does not load due to a https mismatch. You should be able to change the iframe to point to "//www.youtube.com/embed/clKpU9ygaCA?rel=0&autoplay=1" to fix the issue.

[+] kaielvin|12 years ago|reply

Pirate3D is a Singapore-based kickstarter-funded startup building a consumer-oriented 3D printer, the Buccaneer. We are building a large suite of software around the printer, and we are looking for multi-hat programmers in diverse fields.

To apply, try implementing some of the following tasks, and email them at [email protected]. We arrange flight and visa application for you (keyword: H1B, called EP in Singapore).

* 3D processing − write a GLSL fragment shader that renders a sphere, cylinder and cube next to each other with lighting. The vertex shader should not be used and kept minimalistic. Include in the email a discussion about your approach and how it could be extended into an actual application.

* iOS/Android − write a small application allowing to scroll through hundreds of images in the style of Windows Metro UI, but vertically and with circular loading (meaning the last items are followed by the first items, the first items are preceded by the last items, and so on).

* 3D processing − write in your favorite language a program that scales uniformly the object of an STL file to the smallest size so that at least 99% of the points within the object can be contained inside a sphere of radius 1.0 that is entirely within the object itself. Include in the email some explanation of your approach and alternative approaches you could have taken.

* Security − write in your favorite language or pseudo-language a program that encrypts a short message within a single UDP datagram for a destination with known IP, port, and public key. You don't need to write the code of the destination. Include in the email a discussion about the trade-offs between data overhead, processing time and security of your approach.

* More to come at http://www.pirate3d.com/career.

[+] throwaway_yy2Di|12 years ago|reply

There's a couple job posts here that have been mistakenly hellbanned (invisible to everyone except the submitter, who doesn't realize they're being blocked). These are the affected submitters: you can read their posts from last month's "Who's Hiring", they're mostly the same.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=infer (Infer, Inc., machine learning)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dirtyb1t (Cigital, security)

(Is there any way to report this sort of thing privately?)

[+] dirtyb1t|12 years ago|reply

Wow, thanks for pointing this out! Usually I get a bunch of responses and was surprised this time when I didn't get a single email (minus the spam emails from people trying to get me to use their company for recruiting)

[+] throwaway_yy2Di|12 years ago|reply

And also, Andrew Harper LLC. (Travel reviews)

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ivyirwin

[+] eli|12 years ago|reply

Washington, DC -- Industry Dive -- http://www.industrydive.com/

We are a two-year-old, mobile-focused B2B media company. We publish news and information for business executives in a variety of industries.

We currently have several openings:

* VP of Content to lead our (growing) editorial team.

* Full Time Business Writer/Editor.

* Online Media Sales.

* Freelance writers able to commit to several stories a week.

* App Development Intern (iOS/Android).

* Editorial Internship

Job descriptions are here: http://www.industrydive.com/company/jobs/

But if you think you have something to add our team but don't see a job description that quite fits, send me an email and lets talk. I'm also generally free for grabbing a coffee and just talking or an informational interviews or whatever you want to call it. (Especially if you're willing to come out to the Dupont Circle area.)

Questions? Send me an email: eli-at-industrydive.com

[+] eli|12 years ago|reply

Forgot to add: We are also very interested in hiring a Data Intern, especially someone who could do full-time during the Summer (or sooner). The ideal candidate is comfortable with statistics and SQL queries. Contact me for details.

[+] tmfknightly|12 years ago|reply

The Motley Fool - Alexandria, VA (DC suburb) - http://techspandex.fool.com

Work with Glassdoor.com's #1 Midsize Company to Work for 2014 and join us in helping the world invest - better.

We're looking for software developers, front end web developers, web user experience designers, and web/dev operations experts with expertise in...

For Web Engineers: Web server farms, load balancing, caching and automation technologies like Varnish and Salt, and Win/Lin systems.

For others: Python/Django, C#, Javascript, Angular/Node JS, HTML, CSS, Sass/LESS, Responsive Design, and PostgreSQL/Microsoft SQL/MySQL.

If this sounds like you and you're ready for a unique approach to hiring, check us out here:

http://techspandex.fool.com

[+] snowmaker|12 years ago|reply

Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 40 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired SIX full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS (we're a top 10 eBook app, with a 2 person iOS team)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Data science / data analysis (SQL guru?)

* Internships: junior standing or above. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

We recently launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it. Read more here: http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jared at scribd.com.

[+] RichardPrice|12 years ago|reply

Academia.edu, San Francisco, CA

Academia.edu is trying to improve the way that scientific publishing works. Here is the current way it works. A scientist does some experiments and writes up a paper. He sends it to a journal who sends it out to two or three peer reviewers. They peer review it, which means writing a page of comments on it, and recommending either accepting or rejecting it. Usually you get a few journal rejections and the average time-lag between finishing the paper and its being published is 12 months. Then the paper is behind a paywall and people have to pay $35 to read it.

Our view of scientific publishing is that when you finish the paper you should post it immediately on the internet. Peer review should be done post-publication, and it should be done by the community, reddit-style, not by just two or three people. We believe peer review will be more robust that way. And the paper should be openly and freely accessible for anyone to read, along with the data and any accompanying materials like source code.

We believe that this will speed up science, and accelerate research into curing diseases, reducing infant mortality, and discovering clean energy amongst other things.

We are a mission-driven team based in San Francisco. We have raised $17 million from Khosla ventures and Spark Capital. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world." Over 7 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 800k plus join up each month.

If you are a mission-driven person then you may enjoy the atmosphere at Academia.edu and the problems we are working on.

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Mongo and Varnish. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu

[+] forgotprevpass|12 years ago|reply

Note to people applying: I wouldn't hold your breath for a response. in 2013, Academia.edu came to my school and agreed to an on campus interview, and never actually contacted me for the time of the interview (cancelled my classes all day too :/). I also emailed Ben, who posted at a previous "Who is Hiring" thread with no response.

[+] kmano8|12 years ago|reply

Monetate - Conshohocken, PA (Philly suburbs) - No remote, but we will relocate. Monetate helps digital marketers make their content more relevant. We turn data into action on our clients' sites by doing real-time data analysis and DOM manipulation to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

What we're looking for:

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here. We ship often (every two weeks), and iterate.

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve our users' problems.

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - huge data sets, UX, 3rd party Javascript, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of fun problems to work on.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical project teams are self-organizing and have full authority over (as well as responsibility for) the problems they work on.

* Open source - Google Closure, Python, AngularJS, Pandas, Redis, Hadoop, Mahout, Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* Funded by First Round Capital and OpenView

* Market rate salaries

We've hired great people from HN before, and we're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ Send me a message if you have questions or want to apply: karl at monetate dot com

[+] exhaze|12 years ago|reply

San Francisco, CA

MeCommerce/ThirdLove is hiring rockstar Mobile (iOS/ Android) Developers and Computer Vision Engineers to take the lead in changing the face of eCommerce through computer vision technology integrated into iOS and soon Android.

About us:

ThirdLove is focused on creating a truly immersive, highly-personalized mobile shopping experience that's all about the consumer. We developed and patented computer vision technology to help consumers confidently buy apparel that fits them best. By designing our own products and maintaining a complex supply chain, we offer an elevated product experience unrivaled in the apparel industry. We're funded by a long list of tier 1 VCs and angels. We're a motley crew of fashion designers, operations experts, computer vision scientists, and mobile and web engineers -- all working side by side to define a new generation of personalized eCommerce. We’re looking for motivated, smart people to join our family of trailblazers who love big challenges and seek to add value every single day.

What we’re looking for:

- iOS/ Android Engineers - Computer Vision Engineers

PERKS: Compensation Competitive salary Equity 401k Commuter benefits Catered weekly lunches Healthy snacks Fresh baked gluten free cookies Monthly fun events Monthly on-site massages

To apply, send a note to careers [at] thirdlove [dot] com and include your LinkedIn, GitHub, and/or any project portfolios. If you any questions, feel free to e-mail me directly at [email protected]

[+] vikram|12 years ago|reply

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd (Hackney, London, UK) =======================================

Picturehouse Cinemas Ltd is looking for Python developers and front-end engineers.

Requirements

  - Python, html, css, javascript programming experience
  - Ability to self-lead, a lot of the time you will be deciding for yourself what to work on.
  - Ability to look at big picture architecture as well as small details code.
  - Any experience in DevOps is attractive as we handle the full stack.
  - 2-3 Days in London (Typically at Hackney Picturehouse) every week, rest from home.

About the company

  - We have a relaxed, family-friendly culture.
  - We contribute to open-source projects, with any non-sensitive code being available for ope

n-sourcing - We have real customers -- who care about the product and use it every day - Free cinema tickets, tickets to premieres, discounts on food prepared by the chef, free soda and barista made coffees - Flexibility in hours and home working (2-3 days/week)

What Python is used for:

  - We use python for almost everything
  - Full stack cinema system from POS, ATM to public websites, and internal admin apps.
  - A distributed, fault tolerant system so different parts of the business continue to sell i

n case of failures. - We sell 25K+ tickets and 30k+ transactions every day across 60+ cinemas. - We send around 500,000 emails a week - We run quite a few websites.

If you are interested, drop me a line - vikram.b at picturehouses.co.uk

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