Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)

Academia.edu is addressing two problems:

- Open access. The goal here is to put every academic pdf ever written on the internet, available for free.

- Robustness. The goal here is to produce a set of signals around any given academic paper that indicate how robust the paper’s claims and findings are.

It has emerged over the last few years that 65-90% of the academic literature is not reproducible. What this means is that if you try to reproduce the experiments described in a paper, 65-90% of the time you will not get the same findings. This is known as "the reproducibility crisis”. Peer review is not a robustness filter; we need a separate filter to indicate robustness.

With regard to open access, Academia allows academics to upload papers to Academia, and make them freely available. Academics have uploaded about 19 million pdfs to Academia.edu. About 30 million people come to Academia each month to access and share papers.

With regard to robustness, we think the way to build a robustness layer on top of papers is a) to mine the existing graph of citations for commentary and (b) crowd-source commentary/peer review from the academic community.

Academia has built a recommendation system which is the basis of our approach to (b), and a citation graph infrastructure that is the basis of our approach to (a). We believe that addressing robustness is a challenge and an opportunity. We need mission-driven engineers to come and help us.

We have raised $33 million from Tencent, Khosla Ventures, Spark Capital, and True Ventures. The company is profitable off a premium subscription model. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world."

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, DynamoDB, React. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring.

If you are interested to learn more, please email the CEO, Richard Price, at richard [at] academia.edu

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Charles River Analytics is a research and development (R&D) company where you can tackle challenging real-world problems using the latest techniques in artificial intelligence and machine learning. As a part of a 100% employee-owned small business of ~170 people, you will work collaboratively with other scientists and engineers on a variety of US Government-funded projects.

At Charles River, we are teams of scientists and software engineers with backgrounds in computer science, software engineering, cognitive science, mathematics, etc. working on a variety of projects to craft software prototypes of new research concepts. That new thing coming out of DARPA? Yep, that's us.

We assemble in tightly-knit, project-oriented teams to understand the problem, research approaches, design solutions, build software prototypes, and evaluate the results. We connect with other researchers and get the opportunity to publish papers and attend conferences. At Charles River Analytics, we foster an environment where everyone is free to pursue their own research interests and are supported by a community of bright, enthusiastic individuals to help them thrive.

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