Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

XCOR is a startup that is building a spaceship- the Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft

We are working to open up the frontier of spaaaaaace for private citizens. We're a small team and we value our people. Want to do innovative work that matters in a cool environment? You should join us.

We don't have a billionaire founder like other spaaaaaace companies, meaning we have to make a profitable product and get investment like any other startup.

Open Positions:

Composites Technician

Fabrication / Welder

Structural Engineer - Composites

Design Engineer

Draftsman

Safety Officer

CNC Machinist

Electrical Engineer

Electronics Technician

Note: All positions are hardware. No software/ coding positions are open at this time.

Also, all employees must be US Persons due to ITAR.

[INTERN] We do 6 month internships.

http://www.xcor.com/jobs/

We're building analytics for Chromebooks for Education! Chromebooks in EDU has been an insanely hot market (72% compound annual growth). We're the first to market with a solution that helps schools understand how their fleet of devices is being used. We've got a small market share now, but have great product-market fit and a great sales pipeline (10% week/week growth).

Engineering-wise, we're ingesting tens of millions of events per day from hundreds of thousands of devices. We're in the process of rebuilding our entire event ingestion pipeline (going from PHP+MySQL to Kinesis+Node/KCL+Cassandra+Solr). We've got a team of three engineers (including myself). We're all responsible for everything (frontend, backend, database, deployments, everything). We're looking for someone who wants to make tremendous impact in the organization - making key engineering decision that will impact the company for years to come. We're looking for killer frontend and backend people as well as data scientists (we've got a goldmine of usage data that we haven't run any non-trivial analytics on).

We're Pre-Series-A and profitable! We're in the process of raising an A round which will enable us to scale up. If you're interested in an early stage startup that's positioned well for stable growth, please reach out!

Hit us up at jobs@goguardian.com

Consultancy specialized on the edX project, and hiring to handle increasing demand. edX is a free software project, used by various universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, class.stanford.edu, france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr for examples of edX instances.

It's a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing custom features for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing instances, developing generic platform features, deploying instances, working on both client/server sides, etc.

A large part of your work would be published as free software (edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.

You would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )

Stack: Python/Django, Ansible, AWS, Debian/Ubuntu, JS, HTML/CSS, MySQL, MongoDB

Applying: Email jobs@opencraft.com with: your github account, a short explanation of why the role interests you (no formal cover letter, please :) ) and a list of links to free software contributions you have made.

Europe/Hungary/Budapest

Full-time / no remote work / relocation supported

Prezi is a zooming presentation software that uses an open canvas instead of traditional slides, is available on desktop, browsers, iPads and iPhones. With offices in San Francisco and Budapest, we work together with 200 employees. You’ll love to work with us if you want to: 1. create an app used by 40 million users 2. work together with people, who are smarter than you, who can inspire you, 3. use the technologies, tools and methods on you daily work, you like, 4. work in small, independent teams, 4. do something from scratch, 5. have free food all day long

Currently we are building a new C++ team, where you will be developing a complex editor for Prezi. If you want to solve non-trivial architectural problems, take full ownership of features, work with a wide range of software tools and technologies and work on a new codebase, not legacy stuff, send us your application:

http://prezi.com/jobs/oHh7XfwM/