Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2015)

Come and influence the direction of one of the world's most popular benchmarks. Primate Labs is looking for a skilled software developer to join us and contribute to Geekbench. As a developer working on Geekbench, you will help design and develop future versions, as well as maintain the current version of the Geekbench application.

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibility will be to develop and characterize workloads for future versions of Geekbench. You'll also work on features that will be included in the cross-platform core of Geekbench.

Background

We're looking for someone with the following background. These points aren't meant to be hard-and-fast requirements, but should give you an idea of the work you'll be doing at Primate Labs:

- BA/BMath/BSc in a technical field (or in lieu of a degree, equivalent experience).

- Extensive experience with C++ and the STL.

- Experience with at least one of: Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby

- Self-motivated, able to work independently, and proactive.

- Basic understanding of processor architectures.

Pluses

- Experience with C++11.

- Experience writing cross-platform code.

- Experience with CUDA, Metal, OpenCL, OpenGL, or RenderScript.

- Experience with code optimization and profiling tools (e.g., Instruments, VTune).

Benefits

- Competitive salary and vacation time.

- Medical and dental benefits.

- Flexible work hours.

This is a full-time employment position in our Toronto, Ontario office. Interested? Send your resume and any other relevant information about your background or work experience to jobs@primatelabs.com.

mails resume

At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.

A Data Scientist will:

- Design, develop and implement statistical models to carry out various novel aspects of classification and information extraction from unstructured text, such as emails or email threads

- Using a combination of judgement and experience, create hypotheses to confront complex Natural Language Processing problems

- Be capable of designing stringent tests of these hypothesis and use results to guide further development towards performance optimization

- Familiar with or eager to learn various advanced statistical techniques to solve different optimization and constraint problems related to automating the coordination of people’s schedules and derivation of implicit and explicit preferences from email-related data

- Be capable of visualizing and communicating data science concepts to other team members, and seek meaningful feedback from them

Ideal Candidate:

- Quantitative degree and/or relevant experience

- Strong statistics background, ideally experience with Natural Language Processing techniques; loves building mathematical and probabilistic models and algorithms

- Code experience in a production environment; familiar with data structures, parallelism and concurrency

- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that comfortable working in a dynamic environment tackling challenging problems

- Bonus: Experience with Scala, Python, AWS, and MongoDB; implementation experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms

https://x.ai/jobs/#data-scientist

At x.ai, we are building an artificial intelligence powered personal assistant. The software will schedule meetings for our customers automatically without subjecting them to the typical back and forth over email negotiating when and where to meet someone. We are looking for a smart, self-motivated, and enthusiastic individual to join us on the journey in building the artificial intelligence of the future. You’ll get to work side by side with a small team of serial entrepreneurs moving at breakneck speed.

A Backend Engineer will:

- Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out of free form text

- Jump between architecture, implementation, infrastructure management, and firefighting

- Design and build a system that enables seamless human-machine interactions

- Solve various optimization and constraint problems related to coordinating people’s schedules and preferences

- Integrate with various external APIs

- Constantly improve our development processes and tools to reduce friction from idea to deployment

Ideal Candidate:

- Build maintainable, well tested and scalable code

- Experience with building big data processing system

- Data modeling and architectural skills

- BS or MS in Computer Science (or related field)

- Intellectually curious, collaborative, self-motivated, fast learner that is comfortable with uncertainties

- Want to be part of a passionate and collaborative team, looking to make a mark in the world

- Our backend is built in Scala so direct experience will be preferred

- Bonus: Experience with AWS, MongoDB and EMR/Hadoop

https://x.ai/jobs/#backend