Machine Learning Startup Hiring
My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting with a focus on quantitative sciences. One of my clients is a machine learning startup located in Northern California. The founders include a successful veteran entrepreneur with a PhD in CS from Stanford, while the other founder is on the faculty at UC Berkeley. Their team has made unpublished discoveries in the field of Machine Learning and in other areas as well. My client would like to hire an extremely talented Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer as soon as possible. Their job description can be found below. This group is going to be the next big thing in terms of quantitative strategies and systems. They are rebuilding their current system and also designing a new system. You could work on either or both. I would love to speak with you or anyone else you might highly recommend about this opportunity. Thank you, Charles Weitzer CEO/Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services Email: char...@charlesweitzer.com Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182 * Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer Fast-growing science and technology-driven startup seeks a Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer. You will be a core member working with the RnD, Software, Infrastructure, and Trading teams to develop, test, deploy, and manage research, operational and production software. The firm researches and deploys machine learning and statistical trading strategies that are designed to generate attractive returns without being dependent on the performance of the overall market. Join a team of people that includes a professor at a premier university as well as over ten PhDs and two MBAs from top schools, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet Infrastructure technology firm. We have a casual and collegial office environment, weekly catered lunches, and offer competitive benefits packages. Focus areas for the position include creating software infrastructure for our research department and production trading systems, implementing and automating back office and reporting systems, as well as supporting the next generation of our compute and storage hardware systems. We seek a candidate who can bring both development and operations skills to rework existing software infrastructure and guide test/automation of new and ongoing deployments. Qualifications: . Experience writing Python code in a *nix environment . Experience working with mission critical RDBMS, performance and fault tolerance . Industry experience as a software engineer . Automation deployment and virtualization (Ansible, KVM, Jenkins, etc.) . Experience with debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc. Useful Skills (Desirable, but not required): . Monitor and network management (Nagios, Logstash, Graphite, Cacti, etc.) . Knowledge of distributed systems, cluster computing, and fault tolerance . Experience making commits on open-source technology . Familiarity with cluster management and job queuing systems (Chronos, Luigi, Oracle grid engine, Mesos, etc.) . Experience in operations for highly available services Please note that a background in finance is not required. * To apply for this position, please send your resume to char...@charlesweitzer.com. Thank you, Charles Weitzer CEO/Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services Email: char...@charlesweitzer.com Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Design and Build Software Engineer Opportunity
My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting for machine learning teams worldwide. One of my clients is a startup quantitative hedge fund located in Northern, California. The founders previous worked together at one of the most successful quantitative hedge funds in the world in New York City. Now they are ready to do it again. The team would like to hire an extremely talented design and build software engineer as soon as possible.. They are rebuilding their current trading strategy and system and also designing a new strategy. You could work on either or both. The title and level of seniority are very flexible. Their team has made unpublished discoveries in the field of machine learning and in other areas as well. This is an opportunity to leverage these discoveries in a real world environment. Here is their description of the position: ** Design and Build Software Engineer Fast-growing quantitative trading firm seeks an exceptional software engineer. You will design and build new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems. We seek a candidate with a proven track record of building 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 getting big fast. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential. Join a team that includes faculty at premier universities and PhD's from top-tier schools, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet infrastructure startup. You will have a high impact, and you can expect frequent interaction with the researchers, officers, and founders. Compensation and benefits are highly competitive. Qualifications: * Experience developing with C/C++/Python/Go in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness. * Experience working in TCP/IP networking, multithreading and server development. * Experience working with common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.) * Experience architecting and designing highly-available critical systems. * Experience architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure. * Experience working in large codebases and building modular, manageable code. Useful Skills: * Experience with debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc. * Experience with build and test automation tools. * Experience working with well-defined change management processes. * Has experience hunting down RDBMS performance problems, understands indexing options, can read an execution/explain plan, has some experience with ORM and optimization at the code layer, etc. * Experience with messaging queues (such as RabbitMQ and Redis), as well as distributed caching systems. ** This group is currently managing a very healthy amount of capital. And their job description above is really just a starting point in terms of possible responsibilities and seniority. They can be very flexible for the right person. If you are interested, let me know the best way to get in touch and we can discuss details. Talk soon, Charles Weitzer CEO\Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services char...@charlesweitzer.com Voice: USA (510) 558-9182 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Machine Learning Startup Hiring
Hello, My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting with a focus on quantitative sciences. One of my clients is a machine learning startup located in Northern California. The founders include a successful veteran entrepreneur with a PhD in CS from Stanford, while the other founder is on the faculty at UC Berkeley. Their team has made unpublished discoveries in the field of Machine Learning and in other areas as well. My client would like to hire an extremely talented Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer as soon as possible. Their job description can be found below. This group is going to be the next big thing in terms of quantitative strategies and systems. They are rebuilding their current system and also designing a new system. You could work on either or both. I would love to speak with you or anyone else you might highly recommend about this opportunity. Thank you, Charles Weitzer CEO/Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services Email: char...@charlesweitzer.com Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182 * Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer Fast-growing science and technology-driven startup seeks a Senior Data Infrastructure Software Engineer. You will be a core member working with the RnD, Software, Infrastructure, and Trading teams to develop, test, deploy, and manage research, operational and production software. The firm researches and deploys machine learning and statistical trading strategies that are designed to generate attractive returns without being dependent on the performance of the overall market. Join a team of people that includes a professor at a premier university as well as over ten PhDs and two MBAs from top schools, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet Infrastructure technology firm. We have a casual and collegial office environment, weekly catered lunches, and offer competitive benefits packages. Focus areas for the position include creating software infrastructure for our research department and production trading systems, implementing and automating back office and reporting systems, as well as supporting the next generation of our compute and storage hardware systems. We seek a candidate who can bring both development and operations skills to rework existing software infrastructure and guide test/automation of new and ongoing deployments. Qualifications: . Experience writing Python code in a *nix environment . Experience working with mission critical RDBMS, performance and fault tolerance . Industry experience as a software engineer . Automation deployment and virtualization (Ansible, KVM, Jenkins, etc.) . Experience with debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc. Useful Skills (Desirable, but not required): . Monitor and network management (Nagios, Logstash, Graphite, Cacti, etc.) . Knowledge of distributed systems, cluster computing, and fault tolerance . Experience making commits on open-source technology . Familiarity with cluster management and job queuing systems (Chronos, Luigi, Oracle grid engine, Mesos, etc.) . Experience in operations for highly available services Please note that a background in finance is not required. * To apply for this position, please send your resume to char...@charlesweitzer.com. Thank you, Charles Weitzer CEO/Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services Email: char...@charlesweitzer.com Phone: (USA) 510 558-9182 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Design and Build Software Engineer Opportunity
My name is Charles Weitzer. I do recruiting for machine learning teams worldwide. One of my clients is a startup quantitative hedge fund located in Northern, California. The founders previous worked together at one of the most successful quantitative hedge funds in the world in New York City. Now they are ready to do it again. The team would like to hire an extremely talented design and build software engineer as soon as possible.. They are rebuilding their current trading strategy and system and also designing a new strategy. You could work on either or both. The title and level of seniority are very flexible. Their team has made unpublished discoveries in the field of machine learning and in other areas as well. This is an opportunity to leverage these discoveries in a real world environment. Here is their description of the position: ** Design and Build Software Engineer Fast-growing quantitative trading firm seeks an exceptional software engineer. You will design and build new production trading systems, machine learning infrastructure, data integration pipelines, and large-scale storage systems. We seek a candidate with a proven track record of building 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 getting big fast. Willingness to take initiative, and a gritty determination to productize, are essential. Join a team that includes faculty at premier universities and PhD's from top-tier schools, led by the founder and CEO of a successful Internet infrastructure startup. You will have a high impact, and you can expect frequent interaction with the researchers, officers, and founders. Compensation and benefits are highly competitive. Qualifications: * Experience developing with C/C++/Python/Go in a Linux environment with a focus on performance, concurrency, and correctness. * Experience working in TCP/IP networking, multithreading and server development. * Experience working with common Internet protocols (IP, TCP/UDP, SSL/TLS, HTTP, SNMP, etc.) * Experience architecting and designing highly-available critical systems. * Experience architecting and designing large-scale data management infrastructure. * Experience working in large codebases and building modular, manageable code. Useful Skills: * Experience with debugging and performance profiling, including the use of tools such as strace, valgrind, gdb, tcpdump, etc. * Experience with build and test automation tools. * Experience working with well-defined change management processes. * Has experience hunting down RDBMS performance problems, understands indexing options, can read an execution/explain plan, has some experience with ORM and optimization at the code layer, etc. * Experience with messaging queues (such as RabbitMQ and Redis), as well as distributed caching systems. ** This group is currently managing a very healthy amount of capital. And their job description above is really just a starting point in terms of possible responsibilities and seniority. They can be very flexible for the right person. If you are interested, let me know the best way to get in touch and we can discuss details. Talk soon, Charles Weitzer CEO\Senior Recruiter Charles Weitzer and Associates, Inc. Global Financial Recruiting Services char...@charlesweitzer.com Voice: USA (510) 558-9182 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
