Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

Sorry, I don't think there are any telecommute options at this time.

San Francisco Bay Area (South SF, CA); Counsyl is Hiring Engineers (H1B and others welcome to apply)

Apply online: http://bit.ly/Counsyl_Engineering_HN

About Counsyl

Over the last few years, we've grown from a dorm room startup to become one of the largest clinical genome centers in the world. Our pre-pregnancy genomic test is now prescribed by physicians for more than 1% of all births in the United States.

As you might imagine, handling this kind of volume puts us in terra incognita. Our situation is similar to the one faced by Amazon in the 90s, before anyone knew how to scale an operation with such highly interconnected physical and informational components.

To solve the problems associated with scaling the medical genome, we hire generalists rather than specialists. Our engineers are pragmatists who know when to use machine learning and when to use a simple regex, and understand in what sense those approaches are at different ends of a continuum. Many did not have a bioinformatics background before they joined, but all had strong fundamentals in data structures and algorithms.

Experience in general means little to us as genomics is a young field; working code means quite a lot more. If this sounds like your kind of company, we invite you to apply.

About you

You should have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science (or equivalent) and significant independent programming experience as demonstrated by Github account, personal web page, or prior employment.

You should also be a generalist, interested in rotating through the engineering team and working in one or more of these areas:

- Genomics: design, validate, and optimize clinical genomic assays for rare Mendelian variants

- Machine Learning and Data Science: extract meaning out of one of the largest clinical genomic datasets in the world

- Robotics: automate and scale our backend to do more clinical sequencing and genotyping than anyone has ever done before

- UI/UX: design the first widely adopted user interface for the medical genome

- Clinical Integration: solve the wide variety of practical issues associated with translating genomics into a clinical context

- Infrastructure: build and deploy the hardware and software systems that support secure, large-scale computations on genomic datasets

From a skills perspective, you should have familiarity with several of the following technologies. We obviously don’t expect you to know everything on the list, but you should be nodding to yourself by the end of it.

- Python: Django, Numpy, Scipy, Cython

- HTML/CSS/JS: Coffeescript, Backbone.js, Twitter Bootstrap 2, HTML5 APIs, Chrome Web Inspector

- C++: STL, gcc/g++, Boost, C++11

- Functional Programming: Haskell, underscore.js, functional reactive programming

- Data Science and Visualization: GNU GSL, CUDA, Netlib/LAPACK, graphviz, R, Matlab, Matplotlib, Numerical Recipes

- DevOps/System Administration: Amazon Web Services, Puppet, nginx, nagios, Apache, Fabric

- APIs: REST, JSON, SOA, and all that jazz

- Biological Databases: NCBI, UCSC, 1000 Genomes, Hapmap, UK10K

- Sequencing/Computational Biology: OLB, samtools/pysam, pygr, galaxy/bxpython, kent utilities

- Unix/Linux: bash/zsh, emacs/vim, git, GNU toolchain

- PostgreSQL: psycopg2, hstore, replication

- Security: skipfish, SSL, fuzz testing, preventing XSS & SQL injections

Again, please consider these guidelines, not absolutes. For example, if you know Chef, we figure you can learn Puppet, and if you know Ruby, we figure you can learn Python.

In general, you should enjoy taking care of the practical last mile problems needed to actually achieve a societal ROI on the world's multibillion dollar investment in the Human Genome Project.

What you'll do:

- Move fast without breaking things :) - Start in the areas you're familiar with, and grow to work on the full stack - Work closely with a small, tight-knit team - Develop algorithms and code for all aspects of clinical genomics, from machine learning to supply chain optimization to insurance billing - Quite literally save lives with your keyboard

What you'll get:

- Competitive compensation and start-up equity package - Excellent health insurance - Catered meals every day plus a fully stocked fridge - Gym access to work it off - MacBook Pro, 30" monitor, iPad, iPhone, and all the gadgets you need

Apply online: http://bit.ly/Counsyl_Engineering_HN

Athens, GA

At EuPathDB, we're providing scientists with online research tools to help them decipher parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people worldwide. We need a sysadmin with lots of linux knowledge, solid scripting skills, and a willingness to occasionally get hands-on with hardware. Languages and technologies in heavy use include apache, java, jenkins, libvirt/kvm, nagios, puppet, perl, rpm, tomcat, and just about every bioinformatics tool and relational database you can think of.

There will be a posting at http://jobs.eupathdb.org/ shortly.

San Francisco, IOS Developer. Full Time.

We’re inventing a new kind of photography for when photos just aren’t enough. Close your eyes and imagine your favourite memory - say christmas morning as a kid. You’re probably not thinking of a rectangle in a void (i.e. a picture), nor are you thinking of a moving rectangle in a void (i.e. a movie), you’re probably thinking of an entire world that you’re standing in the center of. We make an IOS app that allows you to save this entire moment into a seamless spherical photograph called a bubble that you can save and share with others.

We’re a small, three person team - the intern who made Yelp’s Monocle, a designer from Cooper Union and a computer vision genius. We raised $2 million in a heavily oversubscribed round of funding from August Capital. We spoke at TED (sorry, no video!), have offices on union square in San Francisco and have an app that has an unparalleled ability to induce uncontrolled smiles of glee when people first see it.

We’re looking for someone to be our point person for IOS development. We actually all have IOS experience (and really cool app in progress), but we’re looking for someone to grab the bull by the horns and focus on IOS full time (as the two engineers are focused on computer vision and ‘all the other boring engineering’ respectively). You’ll be a pretty big deal at our company. We’re pretty lucky in that our technology spans everywhere from advanced computer vision to WebGL and HTML5 to Python, PostgreSQL and Memcached to low-level run-loop optimizations for UI responsiveness and Core Animation magic. It's a lot of fun.

Send me an e-mail at ben@bubb.li

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