Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (July 2011)

Earth Aid - Boston, MA - Full-time Data & Rails Engineers

Earth Aid ( http://earthaid.net ) was recently named to Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy. We're newly venture-backed by Point Judith Capital as well as strategic and angel investors who have built and scaled some of the most successful businesses today. We've been called "the killer app for energy efficiency" ( http://bit.ly/dZBy7q ) and our work has been featured in publications such as Mashable ( http://on.mash.to/hqyZqF ), TechCrunch, The New York Times ( http://nyti.ms/ayzLHb ), The Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. We have offices in San Francisco and DC, and we're now consolidating our dev team and HQ into an awesome brand new headquarters in Boston.

We empower households to track & contextualize their electric, natural gas, and water utility usage. We value data, clarity, focus and beauty. We are looking for people who do too --- people who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. We want the best and the brightest. People who work hard and play hard. People who want to make an impact. This is an opportunity to not only work with a dynamic group of people, but also the opportunity to build a platform that's revolutionizing the way we look at energy consumption.

To learn more about our very competitive salaries, excellent benefits, fun company culture, and small arsenal of office helicopter drones, check out: http://www.earthaidjobs.com, and send us an e-mail at jobs at earthaid dot net

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Data Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change & the future of energy. Analytics: Use tools like mapreduce, hadoop, and AWS to drive insight into energy usage. Performance: Store the world's energy data in a way that makes it easy for web engineers to create experiences on top of it. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Reliability: Build tools that make it easy to know what is happening throughout the system and that allow Earth Aid to be constantly available for our users. Security: Create an infrastructure that both allows us to be certain that our user data is safe while at the same time allow the flexibility to perform analytics and quickly iterate.

Ruby on Rails Engineer: Problems You'll Tackle

Energy Efficiency: Build a product that can have an impact on climate change and the future of energy. User Growth: Create a clear and impactful experience that drives us toward many millions of users. Maintainability: Take what's useful from XP and agile to make sure that we're writing awesome code using practices like BDD, pair programming, and daily standups. Product design: Envision and execution on product features and entirely new products. Visualization: Create beautiful and meaningful visualizations that impact consumer energy usage.

Any possibilities for telecommuting with NPR? I've checked the careers page a few times, but the locations on the postings never seem flexible.

Memrise - Boston, MA (but remote could work)

We're looking for people who dream in either Django, iOS or Javascript and want to help reinvent learning - our CEO's a Grandmaster of Memory, I'm the CTO and a Princeton PhD neuroscientist, and we're busily growing the world's most creative learning community.

Yours, Greg Detre - greg@memrise.com

To add to what chimeracoder said above: a lot of our products are data driven. The prime example is Explore, our recommendation engine. It recommends places that you might want to go to, based on your past checkin history, your friends' checkin histories, the checkin history of the venues you've been to or might go to, the time of day, etc. Other examples of data-driven products include our venue search, friend recommendations, etc.

In addition to working on our data-driven products, the data team also analyzes and visualizes the critical business metrics that keep the company and the executive team informed about the state of the of the business and help us make data-informed decisions about our products and our business priorities.

In terms of the day-to-day, this might involve writing Hadoop jobs (or more likely Hive queries), wrangling data in Ruby or Python, working with business or product leads to understand how things are performing, and coming up with new things to pay attention to in our data and more insightful ways to look at it.

Burlington, MA - C++ software development of engineering desktop products.

Exa Corp (www.exa.com) is a CAE software company (primarily used for automotive design). We have a variety of positions open on our website, but I'm particularly focused on filling one spot in my group. Here's the posting:

   http://exa.com/pages/company/job_postings/11_Swe_Engr_CAE_MA.html

I manage a team of three (including me), which we're looking to grow to support our rapid growth. I hired one developer last week and am looking to add another. Note that the job description lists 5-7 years experience, but that's very flexible.

Shoot me an e-mail if you have any interest or want more details -- the e-mail in the posting (swppjobs@exa.com), will come to me.