Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

Lellan - Redwood City, CA - Director or Sales & Marketing

The position is a key member of the leadership team. The candidate will be responsible for the overall marketing strategy and vision, setting the sales distribution and rep network strategy and fielding early sales. The ideal candidate excels at both strategic and executional levels and thrives in a startup environment.

Responsibilities:

- set and execute sales distribution and rep network strategy

- field early sales calls and manage early customers

- devise and set marketing strategy, positioning and vision

- work with executive team to identify and develop strategic alliances and major customers

- understand and test key value proposition and articulate features and benefits

- set up marketing structure of company

- propose and develop sales, marketing budget

- represent company at key events and trade shows

- set strategy for hiring reps or sales team

- develop and manage effective PR strategy

Experience and Qualifications:

- successful experience selling and marketing products as a Manager or Director level in a fast-growing company

- experience setting marketing strategy and direction for new products in new market segments

- ability to plan and manage at both strategic and operational levels

- prior startup experience required

- 7+ years' experience with progression responsibilities

- MBA preferred

Compensation:

- we offer competitive salaries, equity and benefits

Apply here: https://lellan.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk08ds

Mesosphere, Inc. (INTERN, VISA)

We're hiring for a number of positions in both our Hamburg, Germany and our San Francisco, CA offices:

+ UX Prototyper

+ Frontend Engineer

+ Distributed Applications Engineer

+ Distributed Systems Engineer

+ Linux Systems Engineer

+ Technical Writer

+ Solutions Architect

Full details are at http://mesosphere.io/jobs/, please apply online or email me at sunil@mesosphere.io for more information!

We're well funded, visa friendly, contribute extensively to open source (we're building products and services around the Apache Mesos project) and have great investors, advisors and engineers. Work ranges from Javascript to Python to Go to Scala to C++, depending on the layer of the stack and application to hand. Get in touch!

Premise Data Corporation,San Francisco

------About Premise------ Premise is building a novel information-gathering network on a global scale. The network harnesses the explosion in mobile technology, combined with sophisticated machine learning capabilities, to aggregate observations from users all around the world to deliver business, economic and human development data in real-time. We are growing the platform to sufficient scale where it will deliver any user-observable information on demand, whether that is the price of food staples at a Mumbai street market, or the length of a queue at a Walmart de México parking lot.

We’re a fast-growing startup – bolstered by the backing of significant ‘smart money,’ but still young enough such that you’ll be a core member of the team that is reinventing how the human race understands its own economic activity. We’re being helped in our mission by Silicon Valley’s most creative and disruptive investors: Social+Capital Partnership, Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Harrison Metal.

Bottom line, this is an opportunity for someone who:

Wants to build something meaningful at a fast-growing and mission-driven startup Wants to contribute to the amazing, messy evolution of the open-source ecosystem Actually cares about social good enough to make Premise a permanent part of their resume Read more about Premise in TechCrunch, New York Times, Wired, The New Yorker, TheAtlantic, MIT Technology Review and The Wall Street Journal.

Benefits & Perks Great open office workspace in SF SoMa/Design District, near CalTrain, BART, 101/280. Competitive salary and equity packages. Health, dental, and vision benefits. Open vacation policy. We hire folks who ship and love to code, no need to count days. Create your ideal work environment. Free healthy meals, snacks, and beverages.

Software Engineer- Data

Responsibilities: Build data pipelines that analyze web content as well as user activity to drive features ranging from user-engagement, user-retention, notifications, targeting, geo-spatial applications, A/B-experimentation, cohort/session analytics Develop & launch algorithms to extract signals from data, develop recommenders, extract entities, generate product taxonomy, detect sentiment, improve search relevance and generate user preferences Develop & launch algorithms for time-series analysis, anomaly detection, analyze media, generate indices based on econometric models Own release and quality assurance of data sets, including QA/side-by-side eval & pipeline metrics

Required Qualifications: Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining search/knowledge/data-mining applications (send us links to your projects) BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience & analytical skills 2+ years of experience in developing applications using one or more of: Java, Python, Scala Deep understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods Working knowledge of at least two of: MySQL, Redis, Hadoop/Spark, MongoDB, Protocol Buffers/Avro, Play Framework Passion for learning and sharing knowledge with the team around you

Bonus Qualifications: Experience building consumer/marketplace products Experience with one or more of NLP toolkits (Lucene, Solr/ElasticSearch, NLTK, Hadoop/Cascading/Scalding, Apache Tika) Experience with graph databases & computing models (Neo4j, Gigraph, Titan) Passion for creating products; personal projects or other work (send us links to your GitHub repos)

Software Engineer- Computer Vision

Responsibilities: Build data pipelines that analyze user-generated images and other media, to drive features ranging from automated quality control, user-engagement, user-retention, targeting, gamification Develop & launch algorithms to extract signals from time-varying text, numerical & image data, develop recommenders, extract entities, generate product taxonomy, detect sentiment, improve search relevance and generate user preferences Develop & launch algorithms for time-series analysis, anomaly detection, analyze media Own release and quality assurance of data sets, including QA/side-by-side eval & pipeline metrics

Required Qualifications: Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining vision/knowledge applications (send us links to your projects) BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience & analytical skills 2+ years of experience in developing applications using one or more of: Java, Python, Scala Deep understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Statistical Methods Expert knowledge of vision related libraries such as OpenCV, SimpleCV, CCV as well a familiarity with NLP toolkits. Passion for learning and sharing knowledge with the team around you

Software Engineer- Backend

Responsibilities: Build backend applications that drive features ranging from user-engagement, user-retention, notifications, targeting, experimentation, analytics, and interfacing with external systems Collaborate with frontend engineers to build clean & well-documented APIs that drive fast & highly relevant user experience. Collaborate with data engineers to build scalable pipelines ranging from ingest content, cleaning web content, deriving signals that feedback into the application Own release and quality assurance of backend components, automate testing infrastructure & performance monitoring

Required Qualifications: Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining backend Applications (send us links to your projects) BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent work experience & analytical skills 2+ years of experience in developing backend applications using two or more of: Java, Python, Scala, Ruby, Node.js Deep understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Storage Systems Deep understanding of at least two of: MySQL, Redis, Hadoop/Spark, MongoDB, Protocol Buffers/Avro, Play Framework Passion for learning and sharing knowledge with the team around you

Bonus Qualifications: Experience building consumer products using Facebook, Twitter APIs Experience building or interfacing with XMPP-based systems, or other messaging/notification platforms Information Retrieval (Lucene, NLTK), data-mining, data-modeling Experience building scalable mobile/web applications with HTML5 as well as server-side components using Python, Ruby, Scala, MySQL or similar technologies Passion for creating products; personal projects or other work (send us links to your GitHub repos) Maven, Intellij, Gradle, SBT, JUnit, Remote Debugging, JVM cpu & memory profiling, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment

Kaggle, San Francisco

------- About Kaggle -------

Kaggle is best known as the world’s largest community of data scientists. Our community of around 200,000 data scientists compete to solve complex data problems. We’re changing the way the most important data-driven problems are solved. We have branched out beyond our core business of machine learning competitions, to build end-to-end solutions in specific industries. Our first focus industry is energy, where we are working with Global 10 companies to make better decisions on where and how to drill for oil & gas. Our solutions take detailed geological and engineering data and help predict well performance. These solutions can minimize capital and environmental destruction by helping operators drill fewer uneconomic wells. Kaggle is located in the heart of the SOMA. We are well-funded (Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures and Max Levchin). Our team includes coffee, beer wine and whisky connoisseurs, pastry chefs, ping pong players, kiteboarders and rollerbladers.

---------- Who We're Looking For -----------

-----Product Manager-----

We’re looking for a Product Manager with an interest in hard science and data science. Somebody who can learn a complex and technical industry and empathize with customers who are not always data science savvy. What you will be doing

* Create and refine the company’s product strategy * Work with our customers to understand their economics, buying process and decision making process * Develop an understanding of how Kaggle's products impact our customer's economics and decision making process * Collaborate with sales to develop pricing models and identify target customers * Collaborate with engineering to prioritizing requirements, scoping feature & set expectations * Develop an understanding of our competition and how their impact our roadmap and positioning * Identify new opportunities based on customer interactions

-----Statisticians & Data Scientists to Focus on the Energy Industry-----

-----Software Engineer-----

We have branched out behind our core data mining competitions, to build end-to-end solutions on an industry by industry basis. Our first industry is energy, where we're building solutions that can transform the world's largest industry. In the energy sector, we've started with two basic solutions:

* using detailed geological data to pick the best place to lease and drill for oil & gas; * using detailed data on drilling practices to help operators produce efficiently.

The machine learning and statistical challenges in energy have some interesting properties:

* geospatial data * mix of deep science and machine learning * sample sizes are small and samples are highly correlated * we care about explainability and insights

Addressing these challenges requires layers upon layers of statistical machine learning models We want to fully capture the uncertainties in our modeling at each layer, not just the point estimates.

For questions, please contact us at recruiting@kaggle.com or visit our career page at https://www.kaggle.com/careers

One of our offices: Shanghai, China

We build products at the intersection of technology around data. Lots of data visualization, big data and infrastructure.

We work with large organizations on challenging problems (the World Bank, the United Nations, CNN) OR on our own products (mostly developer tools, things like http://devo.ps or http://octokan.com).

We are a multicultural team with French, American, British, Chinese, Korean, Dutch and Finnish colleagues. We are about to settle a third office in Berlin and are looking at remote hiring in Spain and Seoul.

We work a lot with Javascript (node.js, AngularJS), Python, occasionally Go and Erlang. Lots of single page apps, APIs and infrastructure automation.

We are looking for full-time or interns:

- Developers; front-end (HTML5 + Compass + AngularJS), backend (node.js, Python), ops (Python, Go).

- Designers; you have design chops, understand technology (HTML/CSS...) and do more than nice pictures (content strategy, color theory, ...).

- Strategist; you can quickly immerse yourself in a new field of knowledge, have a knack for data and are quick at recognizing patterns. You are a jack-of-all-trades that can think a solution and get it shipped, either alone or with a team.

- Marketing; you have what it takes to grow a brand or product online and understand how to leverage online and offline tools to get there.

- Business Development; if you are in Washington DC, Berlin or Paris, understand enough of our space and would like to help us grow our services, shoot us an email.

Drop me a line at job@wiredcraft.com, or go to http://wiredcraft.com/careers.html