Berkeley Jobs - June 2018

Ozora Research | Engineers, Linguists | Berkeley, CA | Part-Time | Onsite | Equity

My company, Ozora Research, is developing a next-generation suite of Natural Language Processing tools centered around sentence parsing. We spend our time thinking deeply about the structure of language and then building statistical models that capture the structure. The requirements are: a good background in mathematics and statistics, and a deep interest in language and linguistics. Programming skill is a big plus, but not an absolute requirement.

I believe we are poised to make a huge dent in the world of NLP and linguistics. The field of automated parsing has been bogged down for the last 20 years because of its dependence on labelled training data (e.g the Penn Treebank). In my research I've discovered a way to circumvent that limitation, by building and evaluating sentence parsers using only a large amount of raw text data. I've spent the last couple of years validating the approach, and now that I'm confident it works, I'm looking to build up a team.

I have a nontraditional, minimalist and cockroachy business plan that won't appeal to everyone, but I can promise you that if I get rich you will also. I can also guarantee that you will get a ton of great experience that you would be tough to get at a big company. I want to especially encourage the following types of people to reach out:

- Recent grads in language-related fields who want to break into the software engineering industry

- People who have had some success in mainstream software engineering careers, but are looking to try something new

- People who want are thinking about going to graduate school in CS/ML/AI/NLP and want some experience doing research in that area

I'm happy to talk more about the specifics in person. Email me at daniel dot burfoot at gmail.

Voleon Group | Statistics ML Researchers / Software Engineers | ONSITE Berkeley, California |

Co-founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, The Voleon Group combines an academic approach to research with an emphasis on scalability and risk management to deliver cutting-edge technology at the forefront of the finance industry. At Voleon, we approach investment management through the prism of machine learning, in which flexible statistical models are applied to the problem of financial prediction. Rather than having humans look at individual events within the marketplace, machine learning employs statistical algorithms capable of detecting persistent effects across large swaths of data.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/voleon?lever-via=VAkzh0MtjQ

Voltaiq | Battery Analytics | Berkeley, CA | Multiple Positions: $110k-$180k | ONSITE

“The battery is the technology of our time.” -The Economist, January 16, 2016

Voltaiq's cloud-based Battery Intelligence software platform brings unprecedented data analytics, visualization, and predictive capabilities to any company with a battery-powered business model. Top automakers, consumer electronics, and energy storage companies use Voltaiq to accelerate product development, improve performance, ensure safety and reliability, and secure financing for their products. Our high-powered team comprises PhD scientists, expert data professionals, and battery industry veterans, all passionate about enabling the global energy transition.

Positions:

- DevOps: automation of builds and deployments on AWS cloud and others.

- Data Engineer: data models, data pipeline, data API and machine learning platform.

- Data Scientist: data analysis and visualization, feature extraction and machine learning.

- Backend / API Engineer: business logic, data models, and API.

- Frontend Engineer: client-side logic for data exploration and analysis.

- UI/UX Designer: problem-solving complex scientific workflows, product design.

Candidates should be:

- Strong coders in one or more of: Python, Javascript, Java, Scala, Go.

- Experienced with modern development tools and technologies: Git, Linux, CI/CD.

- Degree holders in CS, Physics, Math, Engineering, or related.

- Passionate about energy and solving hard science problems using data.

- Authorized to work in the US.

Our Stack

- Frontend: AngularJS, SASS, Gulp, Jasmine, Selenium, Plotly, Vue.js.

- Application: Django, Python, Pytest, ZeroMQ.

- Data Engineering and Database: Java, Scala, Postgres, Elasticsearch.

- Data Analysis/Visualization/ML: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Plotly, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow.

- Deployment: AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Fabric, Nginx, uWSGI.

Competitive salary plus equity and full benefits.

Full job descriptions are on our website: http://voltaiq.com/about-us#jobs

Send a resume to jobs@voltaiq.com.

Thanks, HN!

Rigetti Quantum Computing | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | Full-time | Senior Web Applications Engineer | Senior Software Engineer | Lead DevOps Engineer | Etc.

At Rigetti we're on a mission to build the world's most powerful computer. We are a full-stack technology company in the most literal sense: we design, fabricate, characterize, calibrate, and ultimately deploy our quantum chips through our software platform, Forest, making them available over the cloud to users all over the world.

Software engineering is at the heart of our technology, as we develop internal tools for the many technical divisions within our company, and architect a state-of-the-art platform for a whole new kind of computing.

The following are just a few of our open positions:

- Senior Web Applications Engineer: you will be building performant backend services that power the next-generation of hybrid quantum/classical computing.

- Senior Software Engineer: you will be responsible for building and maintaining the software used to characterize quantum devices. Working closely with our team of talented physicists you will play a direct role in improving and scaling Rigetti's quantum computers.

- Lead DevOps Engineer: you will be responsible for ensuring Rigetti's quantum computing services are engineered for availability and efficiency. You will be formalizing the DevOps culture at Rigetti to create a world-class, first-of-its-kind hybrid quantum/classical computing service.

Our stack includes Python, Common Lisp, C, and JavaScript, but most of all we care how well you can solve problems and learn.

It's not a mission to Mars, but it is quantum computing. Come be a part of something amazing.

http://rigetti.com/careers

PS Our open positions on Lever don't exactly match the above. If you're interested in us and you're great, just apply.

Elevate Security | Senior Full Stack Engineer | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE, www.elevatesecurity.com

Data breaches increase every year as attackers continue to target employees for access and information. Elevate Security is creating a world where employees are a company’s strongest asset in defending against hackers. We are taking on this longstanding gap in the security space with a focus on behavioral and data science to improve security behaviors across employees in a measurable way. We’re looking for extraordinary and passionate people to help us build this future and redefine the security landscape.

We're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with Python/Django and ideally some ReactJS experience. Please, no recent university, bootcamp grads or remote workers.

For more information, check out our job description (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GLB8Qd3PdNLMZ4iO1ddYY4KI...) and ping us on https://www.elevatesecurity.com/careers or hello@elevatesecurity.com.