[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Engineer Needed for Machine Learning Group

[Charles Durham]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, not a bad recruiting strategy though

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:

> To your point,
>
> >- strong experience developing in a functional programming environment
> (Haskell, Erlang, others).
>
> is usually a dog-whistle for "we want better than average programmers but
> we're going to make them use tools that'll make them less effective and
> less happy"
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Charles Durham <ratzes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nothing in the description (aside from the subject line) says that the
>> engineer would be developing in Haskell. The C/C++/Python/Go to me
>> indicates this has no business being posted here. Am I wrong?
>>
>> Charles Durham
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Charles Weitzer <charles at voleon.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Voleon Capital Management LP is a quantitative hedge fund located in
>>> Berkeley, California. We would like to hire a senior software engineer with
>>> strong functional programming experience as soon as possible.
>>>
>>> Voleon’s founders previously worked together at one of the most
>>> successful quantitative hedge funds in the world. Our CEO has a PhD in
>>> Computer Science from Stanford and has been CEO and founder of a successful
>>> Internet infrastructure startup. Our Chief Investment Officer has a PhD in
>>> Statistics from Berkeley. Voleon’s team includes PhD's from leading
>>> departments in statistics, computer science, and mathematics. We have made
>>> several unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other
>>> areas as well.
>>>
>>> Here is our formal job description:
>>>
>>> **********************************************************
>>>
>>> * Senior Software Engineer *
>>>
>>> Technology-driven investment firm employing cutting-edge
>>> statistical machine learning techniques seeks an exceptionally capable
>>> software engineer. You will architect and implement new production trading
>>> systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines,
>>> and large-scale storage systems.
>>>
>>> The firm researches and deploys systematic trading strategies designed
>>> to generate attractive returns without being dependent on the performance
>>> of the overall market. Join a team of under 30 people that includes a
>>> Berkeley statistics professor as well as over ten PhD's from Berkeley,
>>> Chicago, CMU, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and UCLA, led by the founder and
>>> CEO of a successful Internet infrastructure technology firm. The firm’s
>>> offices are walking distance from BART and the UC Berkeley campus in
>>> downtown Berkeley, California. We have a casual and collegial office
>>> environment, catered lunches, and competitive benefits packages.
>>>
>>> We seek candidates with a proven track record of writing
>>> correct, well-designed software, solving hard problems, and delivering
>>> complex projects on time. You should preferably have experience designing
>>> and implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems. Experience with
>>> building large-scale data infrastructure, stream processing systems,
>>> or latency-sensitive programs is a bonus.
>>>
>>> We are growing rapidly. Willingness to take initiative and a
>>> gritty determination to productize are essential.
>>>
>>> Required experience:
>>>
>>> - strong experience developing in a functional programming environment
>>> (Haskell, Erlang, others).
>>>
>>> - developing with C/C++/Python/Go in a Linux environment with a focus
>>> on performance, concurrency, and correctness.
>>> - working in TCP/IP networking, multi-threading, and server development.
>>> - working with common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP,
>>> SNMP, etc.).
>>> - architecting and designing highly available systems.
>>> - architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure.
>>> - working in large codebases and building modular, manageable code.
>>>
>>> Preferred experience.:
>>>
>>> - debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such
>>> as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc.
>>> - working with build and test automation tools.
>>> - working with well-defined change management processes.
>>> - diagnosing RDBMS performance problems, exploiting indexing, using
>>> EXPLAIN PLAN, optimizing at the code layer, etc.
>>> - working with messaging queues (RabbitMQ, Redis, etc.) as well
>>> as distributed caching systems.
>>>
>>> Interest in financial applications is essential, but experience in
>>> finance is not a primary factor in our hiring.
>>>
>>> Benefits and compensation are highly competitive.
>>>
>>> **********************************************************
>>>
>>> The above job description is just a starting point in terms of possible
>>> duties and seniority.  We can be very flexible for the right person.
>>>
>>> If you are interested please apply on our website:
>>> http://voleon.com/apply/.
>>>
>>> If you have any questions or  if you know of anyone who might be
>>> interested, let us know the best way to get in touch and we can discuss
>>> details.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Charles Weitzer
>>>
>>> Senior Recruiter
>>>
>>> Voleon Capital Management LP
>>> Office: 510.704.9870 x 7012
>>>
>>> Mobile: (510) 558-9182
>>>
>>> www.Voleon.com <http://www.voleon.com/>
>>>
>>>
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