Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Kira Talent (https://www.kiratalent.com) - Toronto, Canada

At Kira Talent, we help employers spot top talent earlier in the hiring process through timed video interviews.

A bit about us:

  * we’re a small team (you’d be #12), based in the heart of downtown Toronto

  * we’re well funded (we just raised a $2M seed round) and have had paying clients since day 1 of the company 

  * we’re hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, analytics 

  * we think even enterprise software can be beautiful, and pride ourselves on our design 

  * every single one of our developers have committed code within their first day at work; some within their first hour

Here’s some stuff we’ve been working on lately:

  * building infrastructure to allow us to scale our video recording and streaming

  * re-building the UI-heavy sections of our product using AngularJS

  * designing and creating our mobile suite for both job candidates and employers alike 

  * presenting analytics data captured in our product to the end user, and our team internally

We use Python/Django, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS), ActionScript, MySQL (and some MongoDB), but you’d be free to choose your own tools and libraries. If this sounds fun, let’s chat! My name is Konrad, and you can send me a note at konrad@kiratalent.com. :)

Fusion-io: Senior Verification Engineer

Salt Lake City or San Jose

We are seeking an ASIC/FPGA Verification Engineer to join our growing team of skilled engineers to work on our nand flash memory controller for our solid-state storage devices. The Logic Team at Fusion-io consists of highly experienced design and verification engineers to develop industry-leading products in solid state storage.

Responsibilities:

- Developing module as well as system level verification test-bench infrastructure, including generators, monitors, scoreboards, stimulus and models using UVM code base.

- Generation and execution of test plans in constrained-random environment, including the creation of appropriate assertions and functional coverage points

- Integration of target specific simulation models for FPGA and/or standard cell libraries, third-party verification IP, and driver software for co-verification

- Collaborating with fellow team members, both teaching and learning advanced processes for logic verification, as well as adding necessary infrastructure improvements.

We have a fun work environment that includes free lunches, ping-pong, family picnics, engineering summits, and if you come work in Salt Lake there is basically no traffic and an abundance of outdoor activities within a half hours drive from the office year round.

email: bmurdock@fusionio.com

P.S. we have some other openings too: http://www.fusionio.com/company/employment/?area=all

FlightAware - http://flightaware.com/about/careers/ - Houston, TX

FlightAware is the world leader in flight tracking; we accomplish this with creativity, innovation, dedication, diligence, and integrity. FlightAware is over eight years old, is self-financed, with millions a year in revenue, but still ambitious and with the hunger of a startup.

It's a great place to work with smart people.

We're looking for:

- Mapping software developer

- Front-end (UI/UX) developer

- Web software developer

- Mobile (iOS / Android) software developer

- IT operations support technician

NYC and Washington, DC. Full-time and internship.

The Go Circuit (http://gocircuit.org) is hiring Systems Engineers.

Original job posting: http://blog.gocircuit.org/job-system-engineer

PROJECT

The Go Circuit is a development, distribution and execution environment for a new generation of self-sustained distributed applications. The circuit is built almost entirely in the Go language with occasional appearances of C and C++. It spans the entire lifecycle of an application, from development to execution and sustanance. It comprises technologies like compilers, interpreters, optimizers, low-level operating system management, distributed resource sharing, information flow, security, and many others. The Go Circuit is, by design, open source.

The goal of the circuit is to enable the possibility of encoding an entire Internet company's infrastructure in a single executable, which can be revived with a single click on an ice-cold cluster of empty hardware and can sustain itself indefinitely, without human involvement, short of the requisite replacement of hardware now and again.

The demonstrated, over the past year, power of the circuit environment has compelled industry, academic and government institutions to sponsor the project and become involved with large-scale deployments. We are, henceforth, expanding.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Full-time and internship candidates have identical responsibilities.

Systems Engineers will work alongside the founding system architect on all aspects of the technology: design, implementation, testing, fixing bugs, writing integration drivers, documentation and research. All of their work will be open-sourced. Almost all code will be written in Go, however, other languages like Python, C, C++, Lua, JavaScript, etc. will make a presence.

System Engineers will be researchers as well. In designing the semantic and linguistic interfaces of the circuit, we investigate past and present, scientific and industrial, literature and software on a wide range of algorithmic topics to help us inform and verify our choices.

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate, full-time and internship, would meet the following criteria, or demonstrate an equivalent level of technical sophistication:

* Full-time candidates should have B.A./B.Sc., M.A./M.Sc. or Ph.D. in some hard science. Internship candidates, who are near the completion of their studies towards the mentioned degrees, are also elligible.

* Four or more years of experience with a low-level/systems programming language like C, C++, or Java as well as some experience in building systems, small or big alike, is quite desirable. Altenratively, a serious involvement with a more exotic concurrent or research language, like Haskell or Erlang, would work as well.

* Having a non-trivial open-source project (in any language) would be highly valued.

* Some understanding of how UNIX operating kernels and systems work on the inside. (You don't need to be a specialist.)

* Knowledge of current industrial open-source technologies is good albeit not a deal-breaker. However, interest and desire to learn and hack some of them will be needed.

* Ability to read academic publications in Computer Science

Most importantly, we are looking for individuals who are able and willing to learn fast and have open flexible minds. On that note, we do not expect that you have prior Go experience, however we do expect that

* Candidates will come prepared to carry out the interview in Go.

We are not going to test your Go-intricacies skills. We simply expect that you be able to implement your solutions to our programming riddles in Go.

COMPENSATION

Compensation will vary based on experience as we welcome both out-of-college engineers and seasoned industry scientists. That said, compensation and benefits will be on par with the standard amongst institutions like Google, IBM, Microsoft and such. Location

To apply, please, send your vitae and anything else you want to say to Petar at p@gocircuit.org.

New York, NY (full-time)

Backend and mobile engineers

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