Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

[whoishiring]

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.

Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507753

[nrp]

Oculus VR - http://www.oculusvr.com/company/careers/ - Irvine, CA

We want everyone in the world to experience the impossible. We want your help building the virtual reality hardware and platform that takes people to beautiful new universes. Oculus is up to over 80 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 and researchers in Seattle, WA. We were recently acquired by Facebook, which gives us the resources to scale to consumer virtual reality.

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

* Embedded Systems Engineer - Design, prototype, and program the systems going into future virtual reality products.

* Senior Software Engineer - Develop core software products, services, and applications.

* Communications Manager - Define the overall voice and messaging for Oculus.

* Computer Vision Engineer - Research and develop algorithms and software for cutting edge 3D vision applications.

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

We've recently revamped our careers system, so you should apply directly there. You can email me with any questions at [email protected]

[amauricio]

Are you guys hiring any summer interns?

[jekdoce]

Will you have people working in the Bay Area?

[RobotCaleb]

How about starting a Denver office? :)

[tptacek]

San Francisco, Mountain View - Matasano and iSEC Partners [WILL RELOCATE]

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Talented tech people seek out jobs with interesting challenges. Different firms, different challenges. Here, a chance to grapple with large-scale payments; there, a purpose-built "big data" storage system; elsewhere, software running on an exotic platform; look hard enough and you may even find custom hardware to tinker with.

Consider a greater challenge: the one lurking in the shadows beneath all the other challenges; a maddening, beautiful challenge that awaits all applications, be they YC startups or giant tech companies, the hunt for which leads through the crevices of the payment processing gateways, the arcane backend of the storage system, and the insane, non-euclidian instruction patterns output by embedded compilers. The discovery of the unknown horrible secrets of our universe, the bending of those secrets to your will, and the billing of clients for PDF documentation of those secrets along with their exploitation steps and mitigation advice.

Matasano and iSEC together comprise one of the largest pure software security firms in the world. Our clients are the best companies --- and most of the largest of them. Our teams include some of the best researchers in the field.

I hire for both firms, our practices interlocked in an unholy embrace. You can read more about our hiring process at http://www.matasano.com/careers. Or, for a more philosophical take, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7259845. Put simply: we hire for aptitude, we ignore resumes, we respect and appreciate candidates, and we put real effort finding good fits. iA Cthulhu, iA iA, &c &c. Also, unlimited soda.

You can find out more by mailing <careers at matasano.com>. A human being who knows what they're talking about will talk to you. And I'd like to think we're fun to talk to!

For some of the flavor of what we do, check out https://microcorruption.com/

[rpicard]

As someone who just made it through the Matasano gauntlet, I can't recommend it enough. It was fun and challenging. If you're interested in doing security, get in touch with tptacek. I can't wait to get started myself.

[speek]

Weft - http://weft.io - Boston, MA (LOCAL) + San Francisco, CA (LOCAL) + Eastern Europe (REMOTE).

   ===========================
   ====== What we do =========
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We're a logistics visibility platform (read: Waze for Cargo). Weft tracks shipping containers using low-cost hardware to make sure that shipments get to where they're supposed to be on time and intact, saving billions in lost value due to cargo shrink and disrupted supply chains. We take the info we get from the hardware and figure out where the bottlenecks in the supply chain are, predict whether or not a shipment is going to make it to its destination on time, and dynamically reroute/reschedule shipments so that we can optimize the system as a whole. Really neat stuff. We're working on a lot of the things that happen once you have that data, but I can't share much about it here

   ===========================
   ===== How we do it ========
   ===========================

Web stack -> clojure (immutant) + postgres/cassandra/riak -- we use middleman + enlive (and a bit of hiccup) for templating, meaning that we're pretty flexible about frontend tech.

Algorithms -> a dizzying mixture of oldschool and newschool techniques ;-)

Hardware -> think cell phone on crack (atmel avr xmega, a bunch of sensors, gps, gsm, etc). Working integrated chip in the sub-$5 price point now! Have some pilots running with v1 hw.

   ===========================
   ====== And the rest =======
   ===========================

We've got some very interesting partners and customers (ranging from telcos to enterprise software providers to regional and international logistics companies). We also have some top tier investors!

Looking for help on mobile, frontend, and data science sides!

I should also probably mention that we have a team with a bunch of industry vets!

If this sounds interesting, please shoot me an email at [email protected]!

[gdilla]

How much of a problem is cargo shrink and how often does cargo get lost? And if lost cargo is found, what is usually the reason? Theft?

[cwal37]

That sounds like some huge operations research problems, I imagine you guys have some serious linear programming expertise.

[phreanix]

Interesting. Are you also able to track cargo that is held by customs (which suffer from shrinkage due to poor security)?

[gdb]

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

See [1] for an overview of what challenges we're working on, or check out [2] for a description of our interview process. You can apply by emailing me directly at [email protected]. Make sure to include some background on who you are as a programmer — at the very least, what motivates you, what kinds of things you like to build, and (if available) a code sample that's representative of your best work.

Also feel free to ping me if you're thinking about applying but have any questions!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-engineering-problem...

[2] http://www.quora.com/Stripe-company/What-is-the-engineering-...

[michaelhoffman]

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre: Postdoctoral fellowships in computational biology and machine learning - http://pmgenomics.ca/hoffmanlab/join/

Toronto, ON

The Hoffman Lab at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, seeks new members for our team. We develop machine learning techniques to better understand chromatin biology. These models and algorithms transform high-dimensional functional genomics data into interpretable patterns and lead to new biological insight. A key focus of the lab is to train a new generation of computational biologists.

We seek postdoctoral fellows for several projects in computational genomics and machine learning. Selected projects include:

1. Integrating epigenomic and sequence data to better understand human gene regulation.

2. Developing deep learning techniques to find novel behavior in multiple functional genomics datasets.

3. Creating models of transcription factor binding that allow us to predict the effects of perturbations.

Required qualifications: Doctorate in computational biology, computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, or physics obtained in the last five years. Submitted papers in genomics or machine learning research. Expertise in Python and Unix environments.

Preferred qualifications: Experience with epigenomics and graphical models. Published papers in peer-reviewed journals or refereed conference proceedings. Expertise in R, C, and C++.

We will consider candidates who need a VISA to work in Canada.

To apply: We will accept applications until the position is filled. Please submit a CV, a PDF of your best paper, and the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three references to the address at http://pmgenomics.ca/hoffmanlab/join/#postdoc

[dpapathanasiou]

New York City

Tired of the startup goose chase?

Change the world for real in 2014.

Work on projects involving solar power, hardware controller software, data science, and mobile apps which really are life-changing[1] at the Sustainable Engineering Lab[2] at Columbia University in NYC.

You'll be joining a like-minded peer group of hackers working in python, R, go, mongodb, nodejs, and other interesting technologies, focused on making the world suck less.

There are no sales/MBA types, no scrum masters, and we strongly disapprove of code written in Enterprise FizzBuzz style[3].

Deets[4] here: https://github.com/SEL-Columbia/jobs

[1] Data-driven planning projects in Nigeria, Myanmar, Indonesia; Android apps for rural nurses in India

[2] http://sel.columbia.edu/

[3] https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

[4] Somewhat out of date; if you don't see anything specifically for you, but are interested in general, please contact us!

[nickpinkston]

http://Plethora.io , San Francisco: Building the robotic factory of the future to make hardware as easy as software.

+ Funding: Seed VC, led by Founders Fund, round oversubscribed, others still trying to give us money.

+ Team: 8 full-time engineers in full build mode - growing quickly

+ Progress:

-- Closed Funding: Oct. 2013

-- Opened Pilot Factory: Jan. 2014

-- Generating revenue from manufacturing operations

-- Made many key hires in comp. geo. / math core team

-- CAD plug-ins in private beta w/ large pre-sales list

+ Jobs - Link: https://angel.co/plethora/jobs

Positions:

1.) Mathy programmers to solve computational geometry problems in automated manufacturing: CAD/CAM, feature-detection, path planning, geometric/physics simulations, etc.

2.) Developer for C# Dev Tools for CAD plug-in team: automated build/testing systems over multiple large software systems and OS's.

Benefits:

-- Competitive Salaries

-- Generous Equity: 0.25-2%

-- Great Healthcare/Dental

-- Free Maker Classes: CNC milling, welding, PCB design, etc.

-- Free TechShop Membership

-- Free Personal Project Build Money

+ We've already sponsored one H1-B VISA and happy to do more. WILL RELOCATE as well.

[arohner]

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 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 Developer Success and Developer Awareness positions. Since we have an incredibly technical product, and selling directly to developers, the dev-awareness positions (think marketing, but much more dev-oriented: dev evangelism, writing interesting blogs, CRO, analytics, etc - think a patio11-style engineer) require significant development experience. Dev-success positions are a good fit for engineers who like working with people and building relationships with customers.

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

[alabut]

Dude, you should brag about your approach to private offices, like your designer wrote about:

http://blog.circleci.com/silence-is-for-the-weak/

It reminds me of Joel Spolsky's articles on their approach to workspaces.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...

It's so rare to find a workplace in SF that's not an open office plan that some of the most productive people retreat to remote work just to get shit done in their home office, like Rands did with his Nerd Cave:

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-nerd-in-a-cave/

Talking about the productivity of private offices could be a major attractor, the way Microsoft way back in the day had a big poster for college recruiting that was a photo of a door and the words "you'll get one of these" on it.

[Peroni]

Lyst Ltd - London, UK - http://lyst.com/careers

Lyst is a leading fashion marketplace - we partner with the world’s top fashion brands and stores to provide people with a personalised way to discover and shop for fashion online. From launch in 2011, Lyst is growing quickly and already generates tens of millions of dollars in sales for the hundreds of brands, retailers and publishers it partners with around the world. Lyst is backed by a range of all-star of investors including Accel (Facebook, Spotify), DFJ (Skype), and those behind Oscar de la Renta, Smythson and Tory Burch.

Behind the scenes we're python & machine learning fanatics. You may remember us from these posts:

Image Background Removal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7340818

Color Detection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7353102

We're actively looking for talented people across the business. We mainly need DevOps, QA, Front-end & Python engineers to work full-time, on-site in our London HQ.

Dev Blog: http://developers.lyst.com/

Contact me directly if you are interested in finding out more: [email protected]

[salar]

Amsterdam, the Netherlands. No remote work – must be willing to work at our Amsterdam office.

Silk [1] is looking for Javascript, TypeScript and Front-end engineers.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with information that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

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: http://jobs.silk.co/

[1] http://www.silk.co/

[2] See http://engineering.silk.co/ for examples.

[benweatherman]

Ordoro is a web app that helps people manage their e-commerce business. Like everyone else in the world, we need developers. Unlike everyone else in the world, we're awesome. Come and work with us.

Send your resume to [email protected]. Find out more at ordoro.com/jobs

    Compensation and Perks
    ======================

    - $80k-$120k salary
    - 0.1-1% equity
    - Full health benefits
    - Chillaxed vacation policy
    - Whatever gear you need for the job
    - Passionate teammates
    - A badass office in downtown Austin, TX (we'll pay your moving expenses)

    Python Web Developers
    =====================

    You'll mostly be working on our Flask-powered JSON API. This year
    we're focused on things like exposing our API publicly, caching,
    automated creation of developer documentation. You'll also add
    whatever functionality is needed to support features our customers
    want.

    In our dream world, the person we’d hire would love:
    - Python, Go, Postgres, Redis, and exploring other technology that
      would make Ordoro awesome
    - Tuning SQL queries to keep the API fast
    - Automation and testing
    - Using 3rd-party APIs and figuring out all the fun little land
      mines their docs fail to mention
    - Deploying applications in a Linux environment

    Javascript Frontend Developers
    ==============================

    You’ll be working on our client-side Javascript app along with
    adding functionality to the Express-powered server. This year we’re
    focusing on porting code from a legacy application and adding
    several large features our customers have been clamoring for.

    In our dream world, the person we’d hire would love:
    - Client- and server-side Javascript
    - Keeping current on the latest ES6
    - Removing jQuery from your codebase
    - Working closely with our designer to make a clean, intuitive
      and world-class UX for our application
    - Deploying applications in a Linux environment

[crucio]

Firebox.com (http://www.firebox.com) - Shoreditch, London, UK

Firebox is a 15 year young, profitable and growing online retailer specialising in the 'coolest gifts you can buy'. We have a small and agile tech team that work and learn from each other. We build new features, improve and maintain our current codebase, and design our architecture to handle high loads!

We're looking for another web developer who is passionate about technology and wanting to get stuck in building a long term business. We are looking for someone interested in the full stack of web development. On the back-end we currently use PHP/Ruby, MySQL, Redis, Nginx/Apache, and Solr.

To give you an idea of some of our current projects: we are moving over to Postgres, building an in-house iPhone app, re-making our development process to use vagrant, and building an API for internal and external use.

We (the tech team) work fairly autonomously and don't have any managers. We often get to choose what we want to work on in the best interests of the company, which keeps things fun and interesting.

For more info on the job, please see: http://www.firebox.com/admin/showcareer?id=webdeveloper

To apply please email [email protected]

[dayjah]

San Francisco - Twitch - http://twitch.tv

We're crazy about data! With so much traffic (50m MAU and growing) we gather a lot of data. We use this data to help plan new data center build outs through to A/B testing product features to increase retention. We're a small team (4) with a start-up mandate to revolutionise our stat gathering and analytics process. If you like working with terabytes of data, hadoop, aws and have a keen interest in building reliable, robust, high volume systems please reach out to me: [email protected]

Cheers,

Mike Ossareh - Twitch Founding Team & Engineering Manager

[ajtulloch]

If anyone's interested in working in analytics/data, they should check these guys out. Awesome team, large datasets, fascinating problems.

[jays]

Naked Apartments - http://www.nakedapartments.com

Full Time REMOTE - Anywhere

Naked Apartments has set out to simplify renting, starting in NYC. We’re a small team, growing fast, and already taking a big bite out of Craigslist’s juicy NYC revenues, but we’ve set our sights on much bigger goals.

Our team is optimized for developer impact and achievement. We’ve taken Jason Fried’s TED talk to heart and built an entirely distributed team...yes including even our CEO. Get ready to be judged on productivity, not face time and say goodbye to your painful commute.

Engineers are given ultimate controller of product. No wire frames or painful specs handed down from product managers. Engineers get to take an idea from conception all to way to production, coupled with a team support system to get feedback and iterate until you’ve built a something you’ll be proud of.

We want engineers who care about the user experience as much as they care about clean, well tested code. So get ready to be pushed to be the best engineer you can be.

We’re always interested in finding great team members. At the moment, we’re specifically looking for:

* iOS Engineer

* Full Stack Rails Engineer

If you're interested in learning more, send us an email: [email protected]

* http://www.nakedapartments.com/about/jobs

* http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen...

[throwaway142014]

Future employee's rant (some previous experience):

A future employee's first experience at your company is his job application. When someone has taken the time to apply to your company, here are some things that would be nice if done:

* When you post that you are hiring, either here or elsewhere, please make sure to reply as fast as possible. Delaying action on job applications doesn't help both you and the candidate.

* Even if you are not interested in the candidate, sending a reply, however simple, helps in more ways than you can imagine.

(Sorry to hijack this thread)

[_p6xs]

Please do not hijack the thread.

[msutherl]

Dear companies, please also post design and management positions! Also, 'whoishiring', please consider adding "designer" to your list of examples of job titles that "may interest HN readers". There are many of us here and this is one of the few job boards with a high signal:noise ratio.

[gregman]

Nitrous.IO — https://www.nitrous.io

SF / Singapore (remote can be considered)

At Nitrous.IO we are changing the way the world codes. Our mission with Nitrous.IO is to improve the way you work and collaborate on software applications by making development environments easier to create, configure and share.

We just closed a $6.65M Series A financing round and are growing at a fast rate. If you’re interested in helping us change the way the world codes, check out our jobs page:

https://www.nitrous.io/jobs

Positions include:

* Platform Engineer

* Software Engineer

* Support Engineer

* Developer Evangelist

* Product Designer

* Product Marketing / Growth Hacker

* Corporate Assistant

Here are some (but not all) of the languages/technologies you could be working with:

* Ruby / Rails

* Node.js

* Ember.js

* JavaScript

* Chef

* Puppet

* PostgreSQL

* Memcache

* Redis

[grkvlt]

Cloudsoft - Edinburgh, UK - http://cloudsoftcorp.com/

We are working on simplifying application deployment and runtime management in the cloud using our open source Brooklyn platform: https://github.com/brooklyncentral/brooklyn

We are currently looking for exceptional developer talent and so we would love to hear from you. Cloudsoft is based at Codebase (http://www.thisiscodebase.com/) Scotland’s largest technology incubator, but will consider flexible and remote working.

Please get in touch if you have skills in one or more of the following areas: open source, enterprise Java, devops and system admin, distributed computing, cloud and virtualisation, modern javascript and web development. Reach out to us at: [email protected]

[elmuchoprez]

Detroit-based start-up (funded, stable, paying competitive salaries) looking for experienced Magento developers.

Chalkfly.com is looking for an amazing, experienced, OO PHP developer with deep Magento experience to join our fast-growing, first-rate development team. As a software developer, you would responsible for end-to-end product development, from architecture, to development, to rollout. You must be comfortable participating in design and code reviews, as well as delivering accurate estimates, providing regular development progress feedback and consistently meeting project deadlines. Our developers are effective at explaining complex ideas and concepts to non-technical team members.

This is a full time position that would work out of our downtown Detroit office. Occasional telecommuting (like one day a week) is on the table, but we really need people who can be in the office most of the time.

Here's our stats:

    Company size: 19

    Current dev team size: 5 (and hiring as fast as we can find good people)

    Stack: LAMP

    Version Control: Git

    Bug Tracking: Github Issues

    Project Management: Basecamp

    Mac or PC: Dealer's choice. We currently have 2 devs on mac and 1 on PC.

    Office style: Open floor plan, collaborative working environment, very casual.

    Dev methodologies: We borrow elements of various frameworks, but in general we work in monthly sprint cycles, daily stand-ups, weekly overview meetings.

    Hours: The dev team likes to have people here by 10am most days.

A word about Detroit: The city gets a lot of bad press. It might not look like an attractive option to people who are considering offers from NY or CA, but I would really encourage people to at least take a look. We're in a building with about 20 other tech start-ups who have all received funding. There is serious investment happening in the city right now. Two months ago I looked up and Warren Buffet (completely unannounced) was 10 feet away from my desk (he's partnering on several projects in the city). We sit right across from the Detroit Twitter office. We're on the same block as the Detroit Google office. Comerica Park, where the Detroit Tigers play, is 100 yards from our office. Ford Field, where the Lions play, is another about 300 yards away. The part of the city we're in is clean and safe with newly built downtown living alternatives. All I'm saying is: give it a look.

If you're interested in finding out more, shoot me an email at [email protected].

[dataminded]

+1 for Detroit.

I am from the NYC area but I visit my wife's family in Detroit about two times a year and always have a blast.

[dsschnau]

+1 for Detroit - it is a great tech hub.

[suyash]

+1 for Detroit and +1 for Michigan, hope you find what you're looking for!

[onalark]

Delhi (Other areas negotiable), India

Systems Developer, CycleTel

Are you passionate about using technology to create social impact? Do you operate well in start-up environments, building new ideas and strategies from scratch? Do you want to be part of a social enterprise that is positioned to change lives in India? This is your chance to join and shape a fast growing, mobile health (mHealth) service at a critical inflection point.

CycleTel is an mHealth innovation, developed and tested in India, that is positioned to be the first ever family planning method offered via SMS. No doctors, no visits to the health clinic—CycleTel puts family planning knowledge and use in the hands of couples, on their mobile devices. Based on the Standard Days Method (SDM) of family planning, the service has the potential to aid millions of women in India who have access to a mobile phone.

CycleTel seeks a passionate and skilled developer to lead development and administration of our SMS-based solution in India. The candidate will have an exceptional track record in software, preferably with experience in building and maintaining mobile systems services in India.

CycleTel is an initiative developed and incubated by Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) in Washington, DC. IRH works to reduce unmet need for family planning by increasing fertility awareness and expanding access to family planning methods.

As a Systems Developer, you will help us improve, deploy and maintain our SMS-based solution. You will help us expand our reach within India and globally by adding multi-language support to our existing English/ Hinglish-based code. You will also help us expand by leading the development and integration of our application with technical partners. The System Developer will be part of the CycleTel team in India, and work in a focused team, reporting to our India CycleTel Manager, based in Delhi.

Please send cover letter and CV to the CycleTel team at [email protected],