Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (August 2012)

Los Angeles, CA

Seeking Generalist Developers | Machine Learning folks

Unfold is developing a news aggregator that focuses on predictions, analysis, and opinions expressed online, in TV. Our stack is primarily Clojure, CoffeeScript, CouchDB, but we welcome developers with a general handle on the web stack and who enjoy learning new technologies and techniques.

We're located in central L.A. on subway & bus lines.

Longer job description (with puzzle): https://unfold.com/#about/lead-developer

Contact us at jobs@unfold.com

Philadelphia, PA

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

We're not technically a start-up, but our small group inside CHOP is striving to be a startup within a larger organization. See my interview at OSCON for why you might want to work for us: http://youtu.be/wzcIOMp6ZKw

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We are seeking an experienced software development professional to join our small, highly focused, entrepreneurial R&D application development group within the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMi) at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a member of our team, your technical expertise can have an immediate impact on patient care through our mission to accelerate pediatric research with novel applications and data solutions. Furthermore, your work here has the potential to impact the future of healthcare through our research into software solutions supporting genome-enabled personalized medicine. Our research mission fosters an environment where creativity and exploration of new technologies are promoted and encouraged.

Likely candidates should have solid experience and working knowledge in three or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, or Scala experience is highly desirable) and be comfortable with one or more relational database platforms.

Our dynamic academic research environment demands an individual with exceptional written and oral communication skills who can rapidly translate requirements from a variety of disciplines into intuitive, high quality software solutions that support our strategic vision.

Candidates with prior experience in the biomedical field, especially using highly complex genomic data and/or data from electronic health records are very desirable. Participation in one or more public open source projects is an added bonus.

Full details and application here: http://bit.ly/cbmijob1

osmeta

Location: Silicon Valley (Mountain View)

Jobs: Software Engineering - Full-Time or Internship

http://osmeta.com/about/ tells you a few things about the kind of people involved.

We aren't looking for any specific domain expertise because what we're doing involves significant depth and breadth of knowledge and programming skills.

It's highly likely that a great programmer with experience on any platform and in any compiled programming language will find our work interesting, challenging, and rewarding. Examples of "any" would be one or more of C, C++, and Objective-C on one or more of Android, iOS, Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Palo Alto, CA - Euclid Elements

Help Euclid digitize the physical world. Through innovative sensor technology and data engineering, we’re arming brick and mortar retailers with a new class of analytics to help them improve their profitability and shopping experience.

The dataset we’re providing is revolutionary, and we want our product experience to be just as special. Current retail business intelligence tools are clunky, ugly, and tedious. Euclid wants to break to mold by delivering insights AND a beautiful and effortless product experience.

The Visual Designer will work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to create this experience. Primary responsibilities will include prototyping and designing user interfaces, producing gorgeous visual design, and delivering production ready assets. The Visual Designer will also help make sure the product is well represented on our website and in our marketing collateral.

Things we’re looking for

+ A unicorn with deep experience in visual and interaction design for web and mobile

+ Empathy for the user, can eliminate pain-points with minimalist interfaces

+ Artistic ability to create beautiful graphics, textures and layouts

+ Thoughtful communication of design decisions and processes

+ Mastery of the Adobe Creative Suite and relevant prototyping tools

+ Experience producing clean and accurate HTML and CSS

+ Proven success working in a collaborative and iterative environment, takes ownership of the product design while incorporating feedback from the team

+ Obsessive attention to detail, misplaced pixels drive you nuts!

+ Passionate about success, but also likes to have fun

+ Believes that B2B products can be sexy too

Pluses

+ Experience with charting, dashboards, and data visualization

+ Portfolio that includes marketing projects such as print collateral, company websites and branding

+ Familiarity with javascript and other client-side programming languages

Tesla Motors | Stationary Storage group | Full time | Palo Alto, CA

The Stationary Storage team at Tesla Motors is growing and we’re looking for a smart and versatile developer to add to the team. Our current team is very small and we’re looking for a hand-on, generalist who will get things done. You will work on a variety of subsystems, some are existing codebases (with other users and developers) that need modification for our application, while other projects are new and specific to our group. The team is small and you will be able to shape the direction of the product and a large amount of ownership of the firmware and software that is specific to this application ranging from architecture to implementation to testing.

Here are some of the projects that we see coming up soon:

* Embedded C on a microcontroller with an RTOS

* Communication over CAN, Ethernet, zigbee, and GSM networks

* Machine learning for analyzing and modeling energy systems (We’ve been using Matlab and Go, but would love to explore R, Hadoop, and AWS)

* Design and evaluation of algorithms for energy and power markets (think Quant algos but controlling real hardware and moving energy instead of money).

* Designing a robust system to control distributed resources

* UI for customer facing control and data viewing

* Development of parsers/compilers/code-transformers/DSLs for templating and code generation.

While this isn’t the typical HN job, we could see many of these projects appealing to people who are excited about at least several of:

* Green Energy

* Physical hardware

* Parsers/Compilers/DSLs

* Machine learning/algos for people who don’t want to work in Finance

* A variety of languages and technology (in the last 6 months I have used C, Python, Perl, Go, Matlab/Octave, Tcl, VB, and in my small circle people are using Ruby, Java, php, R and probably others.)

We are a small team working on energy and designing physical hardware (which you will control!), so our internal conversions have as much to do with “watt-hours” and “tooling costs” more than “closures” and “apps”.

Requirements (other things we’re more flexible about):

* Comfortable with embedded C

* Degree in Engineering or experience with Energy

If you are interested in this job please email kfine@teslamotors.com

There are also many more positions available in other groups at Tesla Motors, which you can see here: http://www.teslamotors.com/about/careers