Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by davi » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:37 PM UTC

Bock lab, Janelia research campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) | Ashburn, VA | ONSITE

Data scientist / Neurogeometer

We recently finished acquiring an electron microscopy dataset encompassing the entire brain of a fruitfly (120 million images, 115 TB on disk, voxel size 4 x 4 x 40 nanometers). A team of tracers is manually skeletonizing portions of this animal's nervous system, and we are starting to see interesting circuit motifs emerge.

We are looking for someone to help build and use tools supporting this analysis (neurogeometry), as well as help wrangle the millions of images continuing to flow from our three microscopes (~500 TB of primary image data anticipated in the next two years). During this time we expect to switch from RAID-based file systems to an object store (likely Scality), with substantial support from a team at Janelia outside the lab.

Desirable attributes:

- Education: B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field (or an equivalent in education and experience)

- Strong familiarity with Linux, including command line wizardry and detangling dependency nightmares

- Proficient in Python and at least one other programming language (e.g Java or C/C++)

- Experience with utilizing SQL and/or NoSQL data stores (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server)

- Experience with image processing (ImageJ, SciPy, Matlab, OpenCV, etc.)

- Comfortable working with new programming languages and tools when necessary

- Familiar with RESTful web services

- Experience using an HPC cluster (MPI, SGE/OGE, Spark, etc.)

- Follows current trends in industry and academia

- Willing to get hands dirty with hardware

- Ability to concentrate in a fast paced and dynamic environment

- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing

- Ability to take initiative, prioritize tasks, use good judgement and monitor completion of assigned duties.

- Experience or strong interest in working in an interdisciplinary environment.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by curbside » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:38 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by moxie » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

Open Whisper Systems • San Francisco • Full Time • ONSITE

Open Whisper Systems is making private communication simple. Our technology is used by hundreds of millions of people, and everything we produce is open source. What it's like to work with us: https://whispersystems.org/workworkwork/

• iOS Developer -- Someone intimately familiar with iOS development and internals, who has an appreciation for the craft of software development and experience with making decisions that result in great products. No experience with cryptography necessary, just solid experience developing for iOS and an eye for good design.

• Android Developer -- Is the pleasure center of your brain directly wired to the experience of a slick UX or a nice animation? Do you hunt down memory leaks and StrictMode violations for fun? We're looking for someone with deep knowledge of the Android framework and an equally strong intuition for pairing beautiful app experiences with beautiful code. You'll be the architect of major features, making your code available to the world. You don't need to be a security expert; it's knowing how to make complicated systems simple to use that's at the heart of what we do.

• Mobile UI / Product Designer -- We’re seeking an original thinker with strong visual design skills ready to help make private communication simple. You'll take on developing the look and feel of Signal on iOS, Android, and the desktop. You’ll be responsible for updating the visual design for the app and helping shape consistent guidelines to communicate a compelling user story across our products and other touchpoints. You’ll work closely with a team of engineers with a passion for making usable software. No experience with cryptography necessary, just intuition for what makes a great product and solid experience designing products that are a joy to use.

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by brianmcconnell » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

ac2u wrote: post #121

maneesh wrote: post #108

Pavlok | http://buy.pavlok.com | Boston, MA | Full Time | Onsite or Remote == We are == At Pavlok, we've invented a wearable device that helps users break bad habits --- using haptic feedback. Pavlok vibrates, beeps, and releases mild electric stimuli we call 'zaps' that help a user create a Pavlovian aversion to bad habits. It works manually (pressing a button) or automatically (a Chrome extension that zaps when I g…

> At least 1 commit / hour Such a vanity metric for productivity is a red flag, reminds me of the old school horror stories of managers so out of touch with software development that they recorded Lines of Code counts as a means of measuring performance. Curious as to the reasoning.

Agree 100%. Avoid.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by xando » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

The items listed here are available on the map on https://whoishiring.io

The direct link https://whoishiring.io/#!/search/24.487148563173438/-32.6074...

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

#176

Post by frisco » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:43 PM UTC

Transcriptic: Full-stack developer (emphasis on frontend)

Menlo Park, CA; https://www.transcriptic.com/

Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

Among other things, we're looking for highly talented full-stack web developers. On top of our robotic work cells is a slew of internal services as well as a Rails app that acts as our lab information management system and customer-facing UI. Challenges range from building rich, interactive interfaces for composing protocols to presenting analytical data generated by the lab back to the user. We use d3, Backbone, CoffeeScript, and React today, but you'd be free to choose your own tools and libraries.

We're a rapidly growing startup (you'd be #36), well funded ($18M: Google Ventures, IA Ventures, Data Collective, AME Cloud, Founders Fund) and have customers at places like Harvard, MIT, Caltech, UCSF, and Stanford. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people.

https://www.transcriptic.com/hiring/

If there isn't an opening listed for your specific background, don't get discouraged, just apply to the thing that's closest or send us an email - we're always looking for truly exceptional people in whatever role.

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by jsalasky » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:44 PM UTC

CrowdJustice.org - London, UK - Junior Dev and Tech Lead roles - Full-time

We are a tech-for-good for-profit helping communities fund access to justice. Think Kickstarter for court cases - or Change.org with hard legal outcomes - we've funded cases ranging from Supreme Court interventions to local communities trying to prevent developers destroying their green spaces. Our MVP has raised nearly $400k for exciting cases from a standing start in a few months and we are building a team to grow nationally in the UK and internationally.

What that means on the product front is developing a world class webapp (mainly written in Django) that has huge scope for helping users interface with cases, social issues and other donors. Engineers with a keen interest in user funnels and metrics (&, um, social justice) please get in touch! https://www.crowdjustice.co.uk/jobs or email julia@crowdjustice.co.uk

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by bluellama » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:46 PM UTC

Secure Mission Solutions - REMOTE

We're looking for a Linux System Engineer to help maintain our Linux servers and VMs, perform deployments of our production applications, and diagnose and fix problems. If you have software development experience as well, we'll also find a way to put that to good use.

http://smsjob.nfshost.com/syseng.html

Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by hymanb » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:47 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)

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Post by dvanduzer » Fri, Jan 01, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

ac2u wrote: post #145

aheilbut wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a company making a device for Pavlovian conditioning.. Remember, you'll get zapped if you don't make that commit on time!

Ha, would be funny if the internal setup were like that. I wouldn't be too quick to assume bad faith on the companies part though. Sometimes agile companies have these vanity metrics as a proxy to keep their development environments and processes in check. (ie: are things set up well enough with a fast test suite so that developers are comfortable committing/pushing/deploying frequently with confidence?) That's why I…

For a lot of companies, it's important to signal that they're even thinking about something. Like whether a new hire feels like they've contributed anything during the onboarding period.