Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

Orbit is a Founders Fund backed early startup. We're building a smarter OS that lives on top of your current one (Mac to start).

It combines incredible UX and some extremely deeply invested in new technology to unify your cloud services starting as a smart Spotlight 2.0 for the modern team.

We have state of the art NLP and a unique way to sync down from your cloud that keeps your data completely private to you.

From there we've already built the first version of an augmented OS brain that privately and instantly scans everything you do as your work and builds a knowledgebase of your everyday activity on-device. It just needs the last mile of work.

Finally, we'll build a decentralized team-level sync layer to sync knowledge and apps for the modern workforce.

The user and user experience comes first.

If you are an incredibly talented React engineer with an eye for design and want to build something novel and difficult get in touch with me. I need one great person.

natewienert@gmail.com

My company, Ozora Research, is developing a next-generation suite of Natural Language Processing tools centered around sentence parsing. We spend our time thinking deeply about the structure of language and then building statistical models that capture the structure. The requirements are: a good background in mathematics and statistics, and a deep interest in language and linguistics. Programming skill is a huge plus, but not an absolute requirement.

I believe we are poised to make a huge dent in the world of NLP and linguistics. The field of automated parsing has been bogged down for the last 20 years because of its dependence on labelled training data (e.g the Penn Treebank). In my research I've discovered a way to circumvent that limitation, by building and evaluating sentence parsers using only a large amount of raw text data. I've spent the last couple of years validating the approach, and now that I'm confident it works, I'm looking to build up a team.

I have a nontraditional, minimalist and cockroachy business plan that won't appeal to everyone, but I can promise you that if I get rich you will also. I can also guarantee that you will get a ton of great experience that you would be tough to get at a big company. I want to especially encourage the following types of people to reach out:

- Recent grads in technical fields who want to break into the software engineering industry

- People who have had some success in mainstream software engineering careers, but are now bored and want to try something new

- People who want are thinking about going to graduate school in CS/ML/AI/NLP and want some experience doing research in that area

I'm happy to talk more about the specifics in person. Email me at daniel dot burfoot at gmail. Unfortunately I cannot sponsor visas.