Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

Woburn, MA - True Fit (http://jobs.truefit.com/)

True Fit, the global leader in fit personalization, delivers proven fit software to retailers selling footwear & apparel online, allowing retailers to personalize their catalog to each consumer’s personal fit and style preference.

Americans spend $300 billion on clothing and footwear every year, but less than 10% of that is purchased online and 40-60% of those products are returned. Our software is proven to dramatically reduce the number of products returned, increasing the confidence of shoppers so that they become buyers, dramatically improving conversion rates and driving huge value for our retail partners.

Led by a team of Software, Apparel, and Retail veterans, we are getting a ton of traction: We are currently live at Macys and Nordstrom, have hundreds of brand partners, and were recently profiled by WSJ (behind paywall, but see video here: http://online.wsj.com/video/82F25EDC-59F6-4330-BD76-96924F5D...).

We are looking for Ops, SW, and Machine Learning engineers (see http://jobs.truefit.com/ for detailed job descriptions), but we're expanding quickly and always interested in meeting smart people.

Best Buy (Minneapolis, MN) - Full time, strong in HQ presence required, team growing quickly working on more flexible officing as they grow.

Best Buy is looking for an entrepreneurial minded Product Manager to be key part of our fast growing "Digital Experience Team" business; focused on producing a diverse array of Mobile and wider digital products; to help envision new digital tools to deliver Best Buy's strategic goal of 'making technology work for you'. This role will bring to life new digital products that empower consumers to learn, explore, and engage with consumer electronics across Best Buy's digital and physical touch points.

Official job post: http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/job/Richfield-Product-Line-Manag...

I am the hiring manager, willing to talk over email, phone, etc. No need to go through the machine to simply learn more. ben dot hedrington at bestbuy.com or http://linkedin.com/in/benhedrington

Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B

At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight—a system that's constantly improving and advancing.

We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you! stacey.winning@twosigma.com

http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html

FULLTIME Python Engineers, Systems Engineers San Francisco (preferred) SwiftStack - http://swiftstack.com

SwiftStack is building out large-scale object storage systems based on the OpenStack Swift project. Our customers are top 5 web properties and fortune 50 enterprises who want something that works like AWS S3 / Rackspace Cloud Files -- but provide it as an in-house offering. SwiftStack provides a distribution of OpenStack Swift and controller software to manage a deployment.

We are looking for engineers at all levels of the 'stack'. Python is the lingua-franca. Our management controller uses django, zeromq, graphite and all the math required to run a distributed storage system. To build the runtime component we are well versed in linux tuning, systems programming, load balancing, authentication, and filesystems.

We're big contributors to open source. Not just in OpenStack, but also the tools we use to deliver our product. Check out our github page: https://github.com/swiftstack

Please email me at joe@swiftstack.com if you're interested. Thanks!

* We love Clojure programmers! *

Factual is hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Shanghai. Remote work is possible for exceptional candidates who are US citizens and living in the US ('exceptional' meaning you are a great engineer and have lots of machine learning/data extraction/NLP/etc. experience that is relevant to what we do).

Factual's vision is to be an awesome and affordable data provider that enables developers, startups, and big companies to focus on innovation instead of data acquisition. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, deduping, storage, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure, machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop. Our LA office is our headquarters and our Palo Alto office recently opened so new hires would have a huge impact on the culture there.

You can email me personally at leo -at- factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Palo Alto Software Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oTR1Vfwq&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews

Los Angeles Data Engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oSS1Vfwq&s=Hackernews