Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2014)

The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis; H1B Transfer) @ http://climate.com/careers

The 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 across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of decision support tools for growers. 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 multi-scale 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 Clojure for a small scientific software engineering team building Climate's agricultural yield models. If you're interested or have any questions, send me an email at bmookerji@climate.com or tech-recruit@climate.com with [april2014-hn] in the subject heading.

Netflix.

We are reinventing how people watch television. My team is a group of seasoned engineers that craft JavaScript-based UI's for the living room. You will architect and develop user experiences that will reach millions of customers worldwide on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox360, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, and hundreds of Smart TVs and Blu-ray players.

You can read more about our flagship UI here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/13/5098224/netflix-introduce...

And here are some articles/videos where we've talked about our technical work:

* Building the New Netflix Experience for TV http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/11/building-new-netflix-exp...

* WebKit in Your Living Room http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/webkit-in-your-living-ro...

* Recent Reactive JavaScript programming event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRYN2xt11Ek

* Building the Netflix UI for WiiU http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/12/building-netflix-ui-for-...

Message me if you want to know more.

Course Developer Udacity’s Course Developers are dedicated, talented, and technical teachers. They are movers and shakers who thrive on solving problems big or small. They are innate helpers and they will always find a way to come up with creative solutions for their students and peers. Course developers create and record classes, develop exercises and challenges, help students, and push the limits of teaching and learning online.

Responsibilities: 1. Work with exceptional instructors to generate high quality creative courses targeted to a wide range of students. Lead and contribute to class discussion, providing timely responses to students, and understanding what problems students are having. 2. Write quizzes, homework assignments, and exams. 3. Record lessons, explanations, and content on camera and on the tablet. Work as liaison between students, professors, engineers, and video editors to help guide the future of the course and company. 4. Work on a wide range of projects, including ones you develop yourself, from content production to instructional design to software development.

Desired Experience: 1. Be proficient with python 2. Clearly and accessibly explain course material to a wide range of students. 3. Ability to connect with and motivate students. 4. Resourceful - you naturally know how to find answers and are not afraid to ask for help. 5. Technical background, specific skills required differ based on the class. 6. Excellent critical thinking skills, including the ability to accurately link cause and effect and to generate relevant 7. solutions to problems. 8. CS or related experience teaching CS material is required!

What we look for: 1. Love of teaching, learning, and/or a passion for education! 2. Demonstrated excellence as a teacher in some context.

Other details: This position is located in Mountain View, CA - You must be open to working in this location to be considered.

Ready to apply? Send us your updated resume and cover letter on what you like about Udacity.

Check out https://www.udacity.com/jobs for more details on perks and benefits!

We have lots of fun here!

Bashyal - sorry! I found your email. Expect a reply shortly.

StepOne, Inc (http://www.steponeinc.com) - Austin, TX - INTERN, FULLTIME

Come be employee #5 before we get to #18 by the end of the year! We have been in stealth mode and under the radar in Austin, but are going to grow in a big way fueled by determination, investment and, yes, even revenue(Redbull doesn't hurt either). We are looking for leaders to help us build out the future and this is the perfect opportunity for someone wanting to make a big splash for themselves.

We are a funded (http://www.liveoakvp.com/past-investment.html) SaaS company that is simplifying customer support through personalized help via machine learning(ML), natural language processing(NLP), effortless identity and analytics.

Our stack is Django/Python, Postgres, Redis, Angular and Salt, but are also looking to expand this as we expand the solution. We believe in constantly learning, so if you have any great ideas about new tools that we should be using then we will certainly listen. We are not quite continuous deployment(currently on weekly schedules), but are working towards that. We practice TDD, code reviews and believe in automating everything.

We are currently hiring for:

* Django/Python developers to help us build out some immense backend services as well as dabble in mounds of machine learning. You will have the opportunity to jump around to all aspects of the stack if you want or you can sink your teeth into areas such as large scale data pipelines, data analysis and visualizations, sentiment analysis of content through natural language processing, sub-second real-time highly dimensional recommender systems or an intelligent SLA bound context discovery engine. We also have REST APIs if you're into that kind of thing.

* Dev Ops engineer(Junior or Senior) to help us evolve our international multi-datacenter deployment and operations by helping to develop new internal tools alongside Salt Stack. You will have the opportunity to work with one of the first Salt Stack certified engineers(http://www.saltstack.com/salt-blog/first-ever-saltstack-cert...) on the team who is leading our direction and worldwide server domination. We don't have walls up between operations and development so this is a perfect role for those developers out there wanting to dip into DevOps or the DevOps engineers who like to stretch their development side as much as their operations side.

* Client side developers to help us build out both our worldwide mobile web application presence as well as our web based management tool. We leverage Backbone, Angular, SASS, Bootstrap and D3.js in our tool belts. You would have a strong role in defining the future for these applications as they are both in their early stages and are in strong need of a passionate developer who wants to build a critical piece of our solution from the ground up. In the next year you will also have the opportunity to build highly interactive data visualizations using D3.js to help bubble insights up out of both ad hoc data queries as well as offline analytics from the data streams from our systems as well as our large scale enterprise customers.

We offer the following:

* Competitive salaries

* Equity

* Health Insurance

* Equipment budget

* Flexible vacation schedule

* A flexible working schedule

* Education/conference opportunities

* A passionate team

* And more...

If you are interested, please send an email to erik@steponeinc.com and come help us build the next Austin success story!