Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible
## Roles we are hiring for
- Business Analysts: business analysis, documentation, team and tool design
- Native Code Developers: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D. Our experience has been that strong C and C++ developers can learn D quite quickly.
- Functional Developers to work with Practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business.
- Documentation: At Symmetry we recognise the value of writing and have for example a Pulitzer prize-winning former WSJ journalist and a maintainer of Linux Kernel Newbies documentation. We are looking for people to write technical documentation and to document data structures and processes (open to varying range of technical ability depending on the project).
- Designers for documentation. Now that non-programming internal work is moving to markdown in git, we are hiring designers to work on templates and mini-logos for documentation and other work.
- Information Security: incident response, threat intelligence, vuln management
- Platform: Platform as Code, Site Reliability Engineers, Windows desktop support; frontline server support and administration; application support
- Legal and Compliance: #lawyerswhocode or who are very comfortable working with markdown in git
- Accounting: are you the sort of person who would use #ledger-cli ? If so, we would like to hear from you.
- Business: risk, operations, administrative, organisational design and business strategy, investor relations processes
- Investment: Economics, Quant, Portfolio Research, Investment Research, Portfolio Management and Trading
- Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning, alternative data research and management
Location: Remote or sponsorship for a visa in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey
Term: full-time permanent, fixed-term contract, flexible hours.
## Languages
- Dlang (D)
- Julia
- Kotlin
- we do not use but value experience in modern C++, beautiful C, Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, Elm
## Qualities and traits we value
- Courage and daring
- Phronesis (practical wisdom), common sense and commercial orientation
- Practical people who are at the same time unreasonable when they ought to be
- Highly individual people oriented to promoting survival and flourishing of the group
- Inclination and ability to notice and understand links between seemingly-unrelated things
- Curiosity
- Extreme motivation
- Mechanical sympathy
- Extreme and unusual intellectual capabilities
- A love of tinkering
- Resourcefulness
- Good taste and love of beauty
## About Us
Symmetry Investments is a post startup USD 7+ billion alternative asset management company with around 230 people across multiple time zones and locations.
Our core technology team has been remote-first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID.
I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm.
We are four years into a period of transformation from what was initially a fairly standard enterprise finance technology approach to something new that recognises the importance of both the humane and the technical for discretionary portfolio management and for the business of running an alternative investment manager. [Amaury Sechet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhR4PSExnqk), [Andrei Alexandrescu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es6U7WAlKpQ) and [Atila Neves](https://dlang.org/blog/2019/10/15/my-vision-of-ds-future/) have been working with us as long-term consultants and we have many other talented people with lower public profiles.
It's not easy to integrate practitioners who may spend most of their day programming, but are oriented towards solving business problems, with developers who are specialists in programming. To achieve this, we wrote a little functional DSL that's now in production. Type inference of returns and parameters using inequality constraints is in a feature branch and there is plenty more to do on the language itself as well as the ecosystem around it. SIL can compile and call C++ and D at runtime; Python interop is in alpha; and C# is on the way. What might be a project in itself elsewhere can be just a set of functions in Symmetry Integration Language.
The language is written in D and we have a close involvement with the D Foundation and community, hosting DConf in London. So we are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners writing Symmetry Integration Language. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build.
It's quite a creative place where we encourage a degree of courage amidst practical constraints, and we are open to doing things a different way if it's commercially sound and in the interests of our investors.
We look for virtues and capabilities over only experience and credentials although those things aren't a disadvantage. Do not let a lack of credentials or qualifications prevent you from applying. We've recently hired experts with C++, Common Lisp, D, Haxe, Haskell, Julia and Perl backgrounds, and are happy to bring them up to speed with the tools we use.
Compensation is currently not quite at Netflix standards but is generous to very generous over time by broad technology industry standards. We recognise and reward technical accomplishment and have a very flat structure - don't be surprised if our founder and CIO starts asking you questions about your work.
## Symmetry Talks
- Presenting SIL-cling to Compiler Research Group at Princeton (https://youtu.be/7teqrCNzrD8)
- Symmetry Internship Project - calling C++ from SIL (http://dconf.org/2020/online/index.html#alexandru)
- All Spreadsheets Must Die (https://youtu.be/FZi9CSB9_kk)
- Lessons from a DSL where all you have is Ranges (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtuzSlKRmzA)
- Alternative Investment Management (https://youtu.be/1rMq-4rWgis)
## Links
- Symmetry GitHub (https://github.com/symmetryinvestments)
# Contact
- Please apply using this link (https://jobs.lever.co/symmetryinvestments/c8a9b95e-bdf0-459c...).
Columbia University - Data Science Institute | (Research) Software Engineer | Full/Part-time | Remote/Onsite
We are looking for a research software engineer eager to work in an academic environment at the cutting edge of probabilistic programming, causal inference, program synthesis and machine learning.
Role:
You will play an integral part in developing systems for automatic causal and probabilistic inference. Our goal is to build systems that can reason coherently about the real world, in all of its complexity and ambiguity. These systems should allow people to (semi-automatically) build sophisticated models of the world, determine causal effects, design experiments, and construct explanations. An immediate application is in algorithmic fairness.
Relevant areas:
- Probabilistic programming
- Causal inference - Machine learning
- Program synthesis
- Program analysis
- Automated theorem proving
You’ll work with me (http://www.zenna.org/) and the DSI community.
Responsibilities:
- Programming language design/implementation
- Performance engineering, scaling research code
- Algorithm development
- Application to real-world problems
Preferred Qualifications:
- Strong coding ability. esp. Julia, Python, C++, ML-family
- Comfortable digesting research e.g. from PLDI, POPL, NeurIPS or ICML
- Good software engineering practices
- Able to progress with high degree of autonomy, and under uncertainty
To apply, please write to zt2297@columbia.edu
PlantingSpace | Remote | Full-time / flexible | https://planting.space
We are an early-stage research and development project. We aim to build a system capable of understanding knowledge, to answer questions and get things done. Our work leverages cutting-edge domains such as Probabilistic Programming and Applied Category Theory.
We are looking for strong developers to work in Julia, ideally with statistics or symbolic computing background, as well as researchers in areas of optimization, category theory and probabilistic programming.
See what we are looking for and apply at https://planting.space/joinus
Julia Computing | Wireless Systems Research Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time | REMOTE and VISA sponsorship possible
Julia Computing, one of the principal driving forces behind the Julia programming language, is seeking a Wireless Systems Research Engineer to aid in the development of a flexible, Julia-based stack for prototyping and development of a variety of different RF systems. A particular focus of this research project will be advanced beamforming using SDR-based fully digital phased array RF systems, building on top of Julia’s GPU code generation capabilities to enable high-throughput, near-realtime processing of raw SDR sample data. An additional area of focus will be the application of Julia’s machine learning capabilities to the RF domain in an effort to improve the performance of wireless applications on commodity hardware.
Required Applicant Background
- Strong Programming Skills
- Experience with mathematical/numerical/scientific computing
- Background in RF signal processing and simulation
- Strong communication skills (regular customer/end user interaction may be required)
Desired Applicant Background
- Experience writing Julia code (Julia will be the primary language for all newly written code)
- Some familiarity with machine learning
- Some familiarity with low-level PCIe accelerator development (e.g. Verilog, FPGAs, Linux kernel drivers, PCIe DMA, etc.)
- Familiarity with open source development flows (git, GitHub, etc.)
We anticipate that qualifying applicants will have a Masters or PhD in an engineering discipline. However, any qualified applicants matching the requested background will be considered.
To apply, please email a copy of your resume, along with a cover letter highlighting your interest in the position and relevant background to: jobs@juliacomputing.com with CC to keno@juliacomputing.com
Relayr | Berlin/Munich/Katowice/Chicago | ONSITE/REMOTE DURING COVID | Full Time| https://relayr.io/
Relayr is the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) powerhouse delivering the most complete solution for risk-free digital transformations. We unleash data insights from existing equipment, machines and production lines to improve our customers’ business outcomes. With around 300 employees, we are a truly global family with several locations worldwide. Named twice the hottest start-up in Berlin by WIRED magazine and a winner of The Spark - the German Digital Award, relayr is now part of the Munich Re group. Our IoT platform development is driven by our engineers and built using recent technologies. We value good working relationships and engineers who stand up for their ideas. We'd love to hear from you!
Open Positions:
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Data Engineer (m/f/d) – Berlin https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/ca93cedd-3d82-4df8-81d7-4a90577...
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Mid/Senior DevOps Engineer (m/f/d) – Katowice https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/42fe7517-6f4a-4540-926e-03a34d6...
Data Engineer (m/f/d) – Katowice https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/10f6346c-c687-4c5a-8736-3b7ed80...
Data Scientist (m/f/d) – Katowice https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/36734f16-0a78-417e-9ec4-002225e...
QA Engineer – Chicago https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/763b6472-cf98-49ea-a42e-cf9b546...
Technical Lead – Chicago https://jobs.lever.co/relayr/01af7140-bf41-49fe-872e-cb30dc7...
Any many others...Any questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch! julia.rovnik@relayr.io