Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)

We are building a platform that connects people and goods with Autonomous Vehicles that serve their needs – and we’re looking for a senior software engineer to join our team now as we scale. Because we’re a true full-stack AV company – creating the SDS and vehicle from the ground-up – you will have an opportunity to contribute across the board to the creative, technical, and operational aspects of making self-driving a reality.

Here's coverage of the real-world demo we shipped in Miami https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18096338/ford-self-drivi... + where we fit in the industry leaderboard: https://www.sae.org/news/2019/03/2019-navigant-autonomous-le...

We don’t have a strict hiring formula, but our ideal experience range is 5+ years in OOD, with exposure to Java/J2ee/Python or Spring/Rails frameworks. We’re continually growing, so apply even if your software skillset/interests aren’t a direct match right now. Comp and benefits are nationally competitive and are top notch vs Midwest cost of living.

Feel free to comment or reach out to me (Avi, a PM) with questions at aatkin3@ford.com. I’m a lifelong non-driver from NYC and came from a venture-backed startup and the hackathon community before Ford, happy to honestly answer questions about work and life here.

We have raised over $80M to apply machine learning to one of the most unique datasets in existence - over 12 billion images of cells under a huge number of biological and chemical perturbations, generated in our own labs - in order to find treatments for hundreds of diseases. Our long term mission is to decode biology to radically improve lives - we want to understand biology so well that we can fix most things that go wrong in our bodies. Among other awesome folks, Yoshua Bengio is one of our advisors, and helps our ML team come up with novel ways of tackling these problems.

We’re looking for:

* Data Scientists: Looking for experienced Data Scientists both for our Innovation and Assay Development as well as Image Analysis and Quality teams. You’ll work with our data, biology, high throughput screening (HTS), and engineering teams to identify and answer questions in high-dimensional data.

* Sr Full-Stack Engineer: Looking for a strong Full-Stack Engineer. Great opportunity for experienced engineers interested in coding for a meaningful purpose (and a massive human impact) and building distributed systems, web apps and tools for biologists.

* ML Researcher: Looking for a highly experienced senior/principal-level Machine Learning Researcher who wants a challenging problem, lots of rich data, and knowledge that their breakthroughs will seriously help people. No bio background needed.

* ML Engineer: Looking for experienced Machine Learning Engineer who values experimentation and the rigorous use of the scientific method, high collaboration across multiple functions, and intense curiosity driving them to keep our systems cutting edge.

* Biologist, Computational Chemists, Automation Scientists, and Drug Discovery experts. http://www.recursionpharma.com/careers for more details and to apply.

Logistics: Salt Lake City, Utah. Hiking/running/biking is literally out our back door, and it's half an hour to 6 ski resorts. Great pay, health insurance, 401k, relocation assistance (onsite is required), equity, fully-paid gym membership, complementary chef-prepared meals everyday, two one-week paid company closures in addition to flexible, generous vacation, 70ft onsite rock climbing wall, commuter benefits, a top-caliber team, and help make a massively positive impact. Happy to sponsor/extend visas, but you need to already be authorized to work in the US--we can’t handle the lottery at this stage.

Tech:

Data Science: pydata stack (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, matplotlib, bokeh, tensorflow w/keras, etc), a cluster of GPUs for all your research ideas

Software Engineering: python, clojure[script], javascript, go, react.js, kafka, kubernetes (GKE), GCE, AWS

Our team of 148 so far: http://www.recursionpharma.com/team

https://root.engineering/

Root is an auto insurance carrier, like GEICO and Progressive. We use data science to identify and insure good drivers, reducing insurance premiums for good drivers significantly as a result.

We're a startup — we're 600+ people who have been working on this since March 2015. We've built an iOS and Android app that gathers data on how well people drive. We use that to set insurance prices. To build the best possible product and user experience, we went through the arduous process of starting an insurance carrier from scratch.

We're focused on becoming a national insurance carrier and are now live in 24 states.

We've raised $180M in Venture Capital since 2015 and we're scaling rapidly. To do that, we're looking to bring on more exceptionally talented engineers. Whether you're just getting started out in software development or someone who is looking to lend your experience in leadership to a rapidly scaling engineering organization, we plan on doubling our engineering team in the next year alone.

Our tech stack involves Ruby / Rails and Javascript / React Native. However, we're not only looking for people with experience in our stack but rather we're looking for experienced technologists with sound engineering fundamentals using any technology.

We're actively hiring in Columbus, OH and are also building an Engineering Team in Chicago, IL that will be working very closely with our telematics data. This team will play a major part in where we're headed, and we're searching for experienced Engineers who are looking to have a significant impact by building and leading a team from scratch specifically in Chicago.

Email us at enghiring@joinroot.com to apply and either Tim or Chris will respond to you promptly.