Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)

2 positions open:

- Web UI designer. Microsoft stack. Lean startup, Small team, you'll have immediate impact

- Systems engineer to install our server at clients sites and do general IT support for our office.

If interested, send your resume to vpayette@hotmail.com and I'll fill you in on the details.

We sponsor H1B, hiring full time and remote work is an option for most positions.

https://gist.github.com/2838122 - Our official job posting.

Small start-up bootstrapping in Santiago, Chile because we got accepted to http://startupchile.org

Do you have excellent programming skills in Java and at least one of the following languages: Python, Ruby, or R? And an interest/demonstrable knowledge in machine learning, data mining, and statistics?

We are looking for a Junior Research Engineer who will be part of our research team. You will be responsible to research, investigate and test new technologies for big data storage, processing, and analytics. In particular, you will build scalable systems that can efficiently process petabytes of data, build and maintain storage systems that are continuously updated and require holding tens of billions of records each with millions of fields. You will work closely with the research scientists in a challenging and nurturing environment.

Requirements:

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate achievement in some or all of the above, and you will also be heavily evaluated for your attitude, approach and other intangibles. With that, more definitive criteria for the ideal candidate follow:

* Working with large datasets

* Unix command line tools

* MapReduce paradigm, Hadoop and HDFS

* HBase, Cassandra, MongoDB or similar key-value storage systems

* Social media, Web application development

Above all, we are looking for an engineer with a strong passion for working with large social datasets, who is not afraid of getting his/her hands dirty and who never gets tired of trying and learning new technologies. Our research team provides a spirited, supportive and creative environment where we can learn from each other and build the next-generation social media analytics frameworks.

If we have triggered your interest, send us your resume and cover letter telling us why you would like to be part of our team. Be sure to provide concrete examples of your programming skills, such as sample codes that solve your favorite toy problems, demos, web applications you built, public code repositories such as GitHub where you contribute to open source projects. If such examples are not available tell us that, and instead provide short descriptions of previous projects you have been involved in previous jobs or during your education. This is our Van Halen Brown M&M’s test. Please be sure to provide this extra information along with your application.

We look forward to seeing if you have what it takes to achieve something extraordinary with Crimson Hexagon!

For details: http://www.crimsonhexagon.com/junior-research-engineer/

CDD is growing and financially stable. Our software helps scientists manage, analyze and collaborate around their drug discovery data (chemistry and biology). We are are in a great position to support the evolution towards more collaboration, specialization and distribution in a market that has been historically closed and secretive. The model has been successful with academic labs, small biotech startups and very large collaborations (like the Gates foundation TB initiative or MM4TB in Europe). We are now gaining some traction with government agencies and the big pharmaceuticals.

We are hiring two full-stack software developers (https://www.collaborativedrug.com/pages/employment#h-1). As one of the core developers, you need to be comfortable working or interested in building expertise at every level of the stack. Experience or interest in system administration and operations is nice to have though not required. We have many projects involving web development, data visualization, data processing, scaling, security, privacy and other software challenges to make our scientific application collaborative, engaging and rewarding.

It is perfectly OK if you do not have experience with any of the languages or technologies we currently use (Rails/Ruby/JS/MySQL/Solr...) as long as you can learn those quickly. CDD is a great place if you want to have a lot of impact and like to take on projects and responsibilities. We offer market salary and meaningful equity.

If you are interested, contact work@collaborativedrug.com, you will get an answer from one of the developers.