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From: Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>
To: Charles Weitzer <charles@voleon.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Programmer Needed - Machine Learning Startup
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 17:40:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPFanBGg36OGsyD_vjHPYWEsqXXBMsteghJM_A+n0TZP6AGiRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM3PR1201MB0991A9138D644A24AB27F802C6790@DM3PR1201MB0991.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

Hi Charles,

Could you please stop sending your job applications to the caml-list?
This is your eigth email in less than a year total; the list
membership does not change that quickly, so everyone got your email by
now. No more than one email a year would be a more reasonable
schedule.

We discussed already, last September, the fact that advertising to the
caml-list with a description that mentions OCaml programming is rather
disingenuous, given that none of the job descriptions available on
your website, such as https://voleon.simplicant.com/jobs/18439/detail,
mention the OCaml language at all. It would be polite to restrict
caml-list job posting to jobs that involve significant programming in
OCaml or at least a strongly related language that could be of
interest to a large part of the community.

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:47 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 unpublished advances in the field of machine learning and in other areas as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 languages such as 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.
>
>
>
>

      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 21:41 UTC|newest]

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2016-05-02 20:47 Charles Weitzer
2016-05-02 21:40 ` Gabriel Scherer [this message]

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