Re: [Caml-list] OCaml Programmer Needed - Machine Learning Startup

[Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surleau@gmail.com>]

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It's OK, you still have C++, Python and Go for all your correctness needs.
Good luck with that.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:38 AM, yoann padioleau <aryx.padator@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apparently OCaml disappeared from list of languages:
> https://voleon.simplicant.com/jobs/18439/detail
>
>
> hmm
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Charles Weitzer <charles@voleon.com> wrote:
>
> Voleon Capital Management LP is a startup quantitative hedge fund located
> in Berkeley, California. We would like to hire a senior software engineer
> 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 several unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other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, 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, weekly 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:
> - developing with OCaml/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 with your full and
> complete CV: http://voleon.com/apply/
>
> The Voleon Group is an Equal Opportunity employer. Applicants are
> considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin,
> age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic
> information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited
> by local, state, or federal law.
>
>
>

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