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

[Fabrice Le Fessant <Fabrice.Le_fessant@inria.fr>]

What I read is

"Required experience:
- developing with C/C++/Python/Go in a Linux environment with a focus
on performance, concurrency, and correctness.
...
"

From what I understand, they just dropped the requirement of having an
experience in OCaml, since good programmers can easily be taught to
use OCaml without prior exposition.

--Fabrice



On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Emmanuel Surleau
<emmanuel.surleau@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other areas as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.
>>
>>
>



-- 
Fabrice LE FESSANT
Chercheur en Informatique
INRIA Paris Rocquencourt -- OCamlPro
Programming Languages and Distributed Systems