Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015)

Inviting or encouraging a particular vastly underrepresented demographic isn't the same as saying that they're preferred over any other demographic.

There's good evidence that just saying "women welcome!" (or any other underrepresented demographic) is a good way to reduce the huge gap between men and women hires by numbers.

A friend of mine was on this team for the preceding 2 years (and just joined me in industry). It is exactly as Jordan describes it.

Dallas, TX: Core Engineer, Cloud Application

At Brainspace (http://brainspace.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. Our groundbreaking core technology is transforming the way people find and connect knowledge and people.

We work in Ruby, Java, and some Clojure, building complex systems with high scalability in the cloud.

Things you’d be doing:

    * Participate in the design, development and deployment of products,
      features and enhancements
    * Build high-performance, scalable applications and APIs

You are a great fit if:

    * You think doing analytics in real time at web scale is a fun challenge
    * You want to work someplace where cookie-cutter off-the-shelf solutions aren't
      good enough.
    * You are willing to dig into Java, NLP, and machine learning. And are not
      afraid of ElasticSearch, Scala, Clojure, or whatever it takes to make great
      things work at scale.

BONUS POINTS FOR:

    * Expertise in engineering world-class web applications that scale
      from hundreds to thousands of users and beyond
    * Experience with the AWS toolkit (EC2, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, etc) or similar
    * Familiarity and experience with modern search architectures
    * A level of comfort amidst flying nerf darts and RC helicopters

You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

We offer:

    * A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
    * A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish
      things you never thought you could
    * Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
    * Generous vacation policy

Sound interesting? Let's talk. Drop me a note — adam at brainspace.com

Mountain View, CA

Contastic (getContastic.com) is an IDG-Accel/Lightspeed funded company building a recommendation engine that uses ML/NLP to automate sales (customers include Splunk, Epic Games, and Proterra).

Join us to pioneer the science of sales by analyzing millions of data points to figure out what makes a sale happen. As research engineer at Contastic you will be responsible for the design and implementation of the machine learning engine that powers our content recommendations. You will lead our efforts to decipher the data we have. This position reports directly to the CEO.

Required:

Experience writing production quality, performant code in at least one language Advanced Degree from top tier Engineering School Deep expertise in ML, NLP or AI

Nice to Have: Experience with email/CRM data sets Familiarity with PHP/Python Enterprise SaaS experience

Apply at https://angel.co/contastic/jobs/40242-research-engineer

> Native English speakers are preferred

I was really interested, but found this off-putting. It could be worded differently.