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

Mon Nov 2 22:38:32 UTC 2015

Thanks to the thread for taking the time to suss out a bogus job
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Ian Ross <ian at skybluetrades.net> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Chris Allen
>>>
>>> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Allen
>> Currently working on http://haskellbook.com
>>
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