The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle) -
http://climate.com/careersThe Climate Corporation's mission is to help all the world's people and
businesses manage and adapt to climate change. We use a combination of weather
monitoring, agronomic modeling, and weather simulation to provide real-time
pricing and purchasing of customizable weather insurance to farmers in the
United States.
Climate's technical staff numbers around 80, and we're hiring full-time
employees and interns across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of
decision support tools for growers (see http://goo.gl/e2uu9v). Work is split
across groups focusing on web applications for farmers and agents, risk and
insurance policy management, internal platform and data services, and
scientific modeling and research, with roles for:
1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly
anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data
services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications
(Rails, Python, Javascript, and iOS) used by farmers to manage weather risk.
2. Quantitative researchers in statistics/ML, stochastic optimization, remote
sensing, atmospheric physics, and agronomics. Our goal is to forecast
statistical distributions of crop yield for any piece of arable land,
synthesizing satellite images, digital elevation models, weather data,
agricultural statistics, and geological surveys into multiscale models that
underly our data services.
3. Experienced technical team leads, operations engineers, product managers,
and designers to pull all this together into a compelling product.
The scale and interdisciplinary nature of the work drive a lot of
cross-collaboration within the company, supported by a pressing need to build
durable solutions to some very important problems.
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is
lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are
here:
https://hire.jobvite.com/j?bj=o7B8Wfww&s=hackernews
I write ruby as part of the team that builds and maintains our insurance platform and I love it. If you're interested or have any questions, send me an email at estsauver at climate period com, and if you'd like to talk to someone who works on our science team building agricultural yield models in clojure, email bmookerji@climate.com with [jan2013-hn] in the subject.