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

Mon Nov 2 20:48:25 UTC 2015

Point in favor at least some Haskell use occurring is that there is at
least one very active Haskeller at Voleon.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:

> 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 several unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other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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>>>
>>
>>
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