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

Mon Nov 2 20:45:48 UTC 2015

They've done this before (see attachment). If they don't give a straight
answer on whether or not they're actually using Haskell, can they be
blocked from posting to the ML for spam?

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Charles Durham <ratzes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 several unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Allen
>> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
>>
>
>

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