Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

IBM Watson - www.ibm.com/watsonjobs - many locations Watson Group is IBM's $1B dollar bet on the cognitive computing space building upon the Watson technology developed for the now famous Jeopardy challenge.

If you have talent, skills and experience in the areas of: * NLP, * ML, and * Cloud Services,

we invite you to join a team that is working on ground-breaking and exciting projects.

We have aggressive growth plans and are looking to hire over 300 researchers and developers in 2014 alone!

Working @ Watson means: - Working first-hand with renowned industry leaders in NLP, ML, Speech Recognition - Contributing to products that have meaningful impact e.g. helping find cancer cure, helping doctors diagnose and treat patients better, helping people make wise investment decisions etc. - Having IBM's deep customer base and R&D investment behind you

We are hiring mostly in the US – Watson Group HQ are in East Village NYC (checkout our new headquarters http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/watson-hq.h...) In addition, we have openings in NY, Boston, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Austin, Prague and Dublin. Remote work is an option as well.

If you want to be part of a team that is growing fast, keeps things real, and is focused on getting things done rather than 'managing' things, do talk to us.

Check out all the openings at www.ibm.com/watsonjobs for a variety of positions including cloud developer, software engineer, dev-ops engineer and many more.

iRobot (http://www.irobot.com) - Bedford, MA (just outside of Boston, MA)

Looking for great work-life balance at a job where you can say "I can't find my keyboard under all these robots!" ? Then iRobot might be the place for you.

We blend cutting-edge research and practical engineering to build useful and affordable robots.

We're looking for smart engineers who are easy to work with. You should probably think robots are cool, but a robotics background is NOT required. (I had no robotics background when I started at iRobot.)

iRobot is looking for software engineers and mechanical engineers.

Here are a few of our 20+ job openings:

* Embedded software engineers: We're hiring for "big embedded" (C++, Linux, and big cpus) and "small embedded" (C, bare-metal, small cpus). If you have good OO skills (C++, Java, etc.) but no "embedded" background that's okay too - shoot me an email and we'll chat.

* Software engineers for vision, navigation, and mapping

* Test engineers

* Mechanical engineers

* IT engineers

Check our jobs site for all positions: http://www.irobot.com/us/Company/Careers.aspx

Email me directly if you'd like to know more: csvec@irobot.com

PS: We have hired people from these "Who is hiring?" posts, thanks to HN for this service/forum!

Oration - Foster City, CA (local, no-remote, relocation)

Oration uses big data and predictive analytics to connect consumers covered by employer-sponsored healthcare with the best deals on their healthcare needs. The only thing that makes our members even more excited than the prices is the convenience. We've transformed the arcane world of healthcare shopping into a simple, few click process. Consumers find great deals with our application and we take care of dealing with the healthcare system. It's healthcare shopping made simple - like the rest of the internet.

We’re searching for a seasoned front end engineer to help lead our front end dev efforts. Come join us in building awesome user experiences for both web and mobile that scale and evolve gracefully. Our small, dedicated group of designers and engineers (there's 8 of us) care equally about good visual design, technical design and having a good time.

Email me at techjobs@oration.com if interested or with any questions.

Stuph (https://angel.co/stuph, https://stuph.co) is building its founding team! We are a stealth startup creating a consumer product fueled by data mining and information extraction. We are well funded and backed by top VCs. Our office is located in San Francisco.

Our founder is an ex-googler who created Google Trends. Our team consists of graduates of MIT, Cornell, RPI, and top international universities. Between us we have worked at Google, Twitter and Amazon, and won a Kaggle competition. We love math, algorithms and machine learning.

Do you like functional programming? We're using Clojure for our backend and ClojureScript for our frontend. Knowing either isn't a requirement, but be excited to learn!

We are looking for:

- Frontend engineers with strong CS fundamentals

- Experienced backend engineer with excellent system design and architecture skills

- Engineering interns who can hit the ground running.

Contact: artem@stuph.co

Boston, MA - full time, internship, exploring possible remote

Web Programmer, Developer, Hacker

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Smarterer - http://smarterer.com/

Make a difference. Change the world. Have fun. Do something important.

Smarterer gives people unprecedented understanding of what they know and what their teams and organizations know.

We are looking for creative web programmers, developers and hackers to join our product team. Ideally you are a versatile technologist who loves to build web products, especially (but not exclusively) if you have Python experience. Our stack is primarily Python, SqlAlchemy, Backbone and CoffeeScript.

Smarterer is doing something unique and important. We're approaching a point where traditional university credentialing isn't enough. Skills are changing too quickly and what makes someone effective in a role or job is evolving. New roles appear daily that no (or few) traditional universities have courses for. People are acquiring more and more skills through non-traditional means. Companies are finding it increasingly difficult to close the "skills gap".

How do you show what you know?

Smarterer has created an innovative, machine learning, crowd-sourced testing system that will disrupt how people think about skills. Don’t let our name fool you, while our system is fun, our unique, patent-pending, technology is also deeply rooted in scientific modern testing theory.

Smarterer is enabling a revolution: in how the enterprise manages their teams and talent, in the changing job marketplace, and in the way people measure their own skills and share that knowledge.

We're funded by Google Ventures, True Ventures, Re-think education, Boston Seed as well as some amazing angel investors.

Interested? Contact me at mikepk@smarterer.com