[Haskell] Job Posting (Looking for a few good functional programmers)

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

Yaron, would you mind sharing the reason your firm 
chose OCaml over Haskell for your applications?

For others, I would love to organize an informal 
gathering of NYC Haskell programmers if there are 
any.  If you are interested, please contact me and 
I'll try to make it happen.

-Alex-
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On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:

> Jane Street Capital (an affiliate of Henry Capital
> <http://henrycapital.com>) is a proprietary trading company located in
> Manhattan. The quantitative research department is responsible for
> analyzing, improving, and generating trading strategies.  It's an open
> and informal environment (you can wear shorts and a t-shirt to the
> office), and the work is technically challenging, including systems
> work, machine learning, statistical analysis, parallel processing, and
> anything that crosses our path that looks useful.
>
> One unusual attraction of the job is that the large majority of our
> programming is done in OCaml.  Pay is competitive, and we're a
> reasonably small company (around 85 employees), so advancement is
> pretty quick for someone who performs well.
>
> Here's what we're looking for:
>
> - Top-notch mathematical and analytic skills.  We want people who
>  can solve difficult technical problems, and think clearly and
>  mathematically about all sorts of problems.
>
> - Strong programming skills.  Pretty much all of our programming is
>  in OCaml, so being a solid caml hacker is a big plus.  But we're
>  also interested in great programmers who we are convinced will be
>  able to pick up OCaml quickly, so anyone with a high-level of
>  proficiency with functional languages could be a good match.
>
> - Strong Unix/Linux skills --- We're looking for someone who knows
>  their way around the standard unix tools, can write makefiles,
>  shell scripts, etc.  We use a beowulf cluster for compute-intensive
>  jobs, so experience programming for and administering clusters is a
>  big plus.
>
> If you're interested (or have any students you think might be a good
> match) and would be willing to relocate to New York, please send a
> cover-letter and resume to:
>
> yminsky at janestcapital.com
>
>
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