Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)

Our core product and primary focus is the world's first Compact Tracking Radar (not the large spinning blip-blip kind), affectionately known as "The Spotter". It's the size of a small lunch box and tracks in real-time, which we primary sell in military / gov't markets.

The success of and need for our product has put us in the unique but challenging position to bring government and military customers into the 21st century of technology, design, and usability (and that is a challenge). For example, we use an HTML5 interface for our tracking system and it only works in real browsers (not MSIE).

If you love technology, want to work in a friendly environment, and have a budding (or deep) interest in a mix of the areas below, or you just have a good feeling about it, please get in touch with me (ajoneal at spotterrf . com).

We're looking for skill but, more importantly, potential.

Embedded Developer * Linux, Arduino * Raspberry Pi * C * Soldering

Web Designer * Adobe Suite * CSS3 * HTML5

Application Developer * Application language (i.e. NodeJS, Ruby, Python) * Systems language (i.e Golang, D, C) * Problem solving skills

Algorithm Developer * Radar, Sonar, etc * Game Design * Artificial Intelligence * Machine learning * R, MatLab

Here are some projects that have sprung out of github.com/SpotterRF (both on and off the clock):

* Foobar3000 - The worlds most advanced (and convenient) echo server * Dropshare - Simple file-sharing that gets past (government) e-mail filters * Mildoc - Pretty documentation for the rest of us * Tolmey - GPS Geotranslation in JavaScript * Appr - Application Distribution (think App Store)

San Francisco, CA or Arlington, VA. Full Time

We leverage data and behavioral science to change people's energy consumption habits. Help the environment through energy conservation and help people save money.

Java, Rails, Hadoop, and smatterings of many other things - we have a culture where taking initiative and having a good design will result in a system being used by other people. Great perks and a chill yet super productive atmosphere.

I can speak about openings about software engineers (associate to lead), and product managers (http://jobvite.com/m?3n1Njfwe). Others openings include Office Manager, Sales, and other functions. Take a look and contact me (benson [dot] fung [at] opower [dot] com) if you have questions.

This is a picture of two kids using our unreleased learning game: http://qdaq.com/4j1.jpg

We took this photo in a classroom last week where we were beta-testing our educational game. We want to hire engineers who are excited by helping kids learn, and creating similar reactions to the one above on a scale of millions of kids. We're building web and mobile software that makes a significant difference in the lives of its users.

More info: http://quizlet.com/jobs/

Samasource is a distributed work system similar to Mechanical Turk, but aimed at eradicating global poverty by providing work to the people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder. See the TEDx talk our founder gave: http://vimeo.com/9305118.

We're looking for a senior engineer (Ruby knowledge preferred but optional), Operations Engineer, PM, and other positions. http://samasource.org/careers/

Feel free to email me at rhc2104(at)columbia(dot)edu if you have any questions.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research.

Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science moves, the faster the world moves.

It's widely held that science is too slow, and too closed. We are working on changing that, and re-inventing the way that scientists communicate. The stakes are high. If the inefficiencies in science can be removed, we may be able to accelerate science by a factor of 2, leading to a huge impact for humanity.

For more on the problem Academia.edu is solving, see the guest post on TechCrunch last Sunday on 'The Future of Science' by Academia.edu's founder, Richard Price http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/29/the-future-of-science/

Academia.edu has over 1.2 million registered users, and over 3.5 million monthly unique visitors. Both of these metrics tripled in 2011. Over 4,500 papers are added to the platform each day, and over 3,500 academics join each day.

We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We need talented engineers to come and help us with the mission. We have a strong engineering culture. We're an 11 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is in Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

Familiarity with our technologies is a plus, but it's not essential. It's far more important that you are a quick learner who can pick up new technologies quickly. There is more information about the company on our hiring page, at http://academia.edu/hiring.

The kinds of things you would be working on include:

★ tools for scientists to share their work faster and more openly

★ algorithms to mine our data, and to find out what research is trending in real time

★ back-end infrastructure to scale the site on AWS

What we're looking for are:

☀ 2+ years of web development experience

☀ Experience with the full engineering stack

☀ Passion for engineering

All the strategic decisions in the startup are made collaboratively, whether they are about hiring, new feature development, user growth, user retention, funding, or revenue. You can participate in those general startup decisions as much or as little as you want. We have found that our decisions are much better as a result of everyone contributing to them. If you like having an impact, you will enjoy the Academia.edu culture.

There is more information here http://academia.edu/hiring. H1B candidates are very welcome. We will take care of the visa process.

If you are interested to learn more, please email Ryan Jordan at ryanj [at] academia.edu