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

Mon Nov 2 22:11:35 UTC 2015

It doesn't appear to be a Haskell job.  The job announcement on their
website is here: https://voleon.simplicant.com/jobs/18439/detail -- they
only add the line about "strong experience developing in a functional
programming environment (Haskell, Erlang, others)" when they're spamming
Erlang and Haskell mailing lists.  If it's not a Haskell job, it doesn't
belong here.  Unless people want to open the list up to everyone who thinks
they have an "interesting" job, of course.

On 2 November 2015 at 23:08, Christopher Allen <cma at bitemyapp.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Charles Weitzer
>>
>>
>>
>> Senior Recruiter
>>
>> Voleon Capital Management LP
>>
>> *Charles at Voleon.com <Charles at Voleon.com>*
>> Office: 510.704.9870 x 7012
>>
>> Mobile: (510) 558-9182
>>
>> www.Voleon.com
>>
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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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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