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

Mon Nov 2 22:08:17 UTC 2015

Yes I noted you have contributors to the community working for you in an
earlier email, the question is whether the job will involve using Haskell
or not. Does the position entail using Haskell? If yes, what percentage of
the work approximately will be in Haskell? If no, are there any plans to
start evaluating Haskell internally? If there are such plans, will this
position likely involve being a part of that?

>We have one of the top contributors to the Haskell language onsite working
for us fulltime.

Does the company allocate them time to work on open source? If so, how much
and how often? For example, Guido van Rossum had arrangements in the past
where his time was split 50/50 between managing Python and company
projects. Does Voleon sponsor Haskell.org or any open source projects in
Haskell? Summer of code? Is the position for a team where there are other
Haskellers?

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Charles Weitzer <charles at voleon.com> wrote:

> What are you talking about?  We have in the past and continue to post to
> this ML.  We have interviewed people from this list and have flown them in
> from around the world to interview onsite.  We have one of the top
> contributors to the Haskell language onsite working for us fulltime.
> Please stop guessing about our motives.  We are one of the top machine
> learning groups in the world.  We need great people, both researchers and
> programmers, to come help us grow our company.  We have found that people
> with extensive experience and expertise in Haskell tend to be very good at
> doing what we need done.
>
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> Charles Weitzer
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>
>
> Senior Recruiter
>
> Voleon Capital Management LP
>
> *Charles at Voleon.com <Charles at Voleon.com>*
> Office: 510.704.9870 x 7012
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> Mobile: (510) 558-9182
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> *From:* Christopher Allen [mailto:cma at bitemyapp.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2015 12:46 PM
> *To:* Charles Durham <ratzes at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Charles Weitzer <charles at voleon.com>; Haskell Cafe <
> haskell-cafe at haskell.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Engineer Needed for Machine
> Learning Group
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>
> 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"
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> 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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