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University of Illinois Ranked 10th for Venture Backed Entrepreneurs

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PitchBook is a company that shares years of data and research about private capital markets.  The company looks at the research of over 200 professionals to deliver an analysis of current trends.  Some of the areas this study looks at are the top universities producing venture backed entrepreneurs, top companies by capital raised, and top undergraduate universities for female founders.

Out of the top 50 undergraduate programs producing venture backed entrepreneurs, the University of Illinois was ranked 10th. In the female founders category, the University of Illinois came in 18th for top undergraduate universities. Illinois ranked 16th for top companies by capital raised within undergraduate programs. Finally, PitchBook defines serial entrepreneurs as entrepreneurs who "founded two or more separate companies that garnered a first round of venture financing within the timeframe of January 1, 2006 to June 30, 2018." With $2.3 billion in capital raised, the University of Illinois was ranked 13th.

PitchBook also looked at the top 25 colleges that produce the most startup founders. With 526 entrepreneurs and 484 companies, the University of Illinois was top 4 for public universities. 

The University of Illinois Research Park recruits much of its talent from the University of Illinois.  It is exciting to see such high ranks for the future of the Research Park.  The University of Illinois Research Park looks forward to the current and rising talent to come.  

To read the full story, click here.


Site Reliability Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
sophieroney@granular.ag
Description: 

Granular is the leading software and analytics company for agriculture. We are revolutionizing one of the world's largest and most important industries by making farmers’ lives easier and making them more profitable. Our products help farmers get access to land, make more efficient use of inputs, and make better business decisions.    

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help scale our products. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in a fast-paced environment.  You’ll be part of a rapidly growing company full of passionate, committed people who are excited to transform agriculture. We currently have offices in San Francisco, CA, Champaign, IL, and Des Moines, IA.

What you will do:

You will collaborate heavily with support teams, software engineering teams, and operations teams to solve complex problems in our production systems while developing and directing the development of systems to identify and mitigate system issues before they impact end users.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned software engineer with a deep understanding of infrastructure and cloud services. The Site Reliability Engineer must be able to work tactically and urgently to solve complex, high visibility production issues but also think strategically in order to implement solutions that proactively identify and resolve system issues. Due to the high visibility of this position, excellent communication skills are required. You will work closely with product managers and engineers to develop best practices and tooling to support our production systems.

Specific responsibilities include:

  • Implement production system monitoring, alerting, tooling, and engineering best practices to help engineering teams meet defined SLAs
  • Work closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to triage production issues and implement best practices for ensure stability of our production systems
  • Work with others across the entire engineering team to help define and execute on Granular’s overall software technology strategy
  • Work with others across the engineering team to continuously refine and improve our software development and delivery process, leading to measurable improvement to system availability

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in software technology
  • History of delivering innovative, easy-to-use, high-performance enterprise SaaS applications
  • Passion for triaging production issues and identifying and implementing strategies to proactively mitigate in the future
  • You understand modern web applications, testing strategies, and deployment operations. You work across the engineering organization to drive efficient and effective processes and tools for development, testing, continuous integration, deployment, etc.
  • You have a strong, user-centric view of software and product quality and usability.
  • Understanding of Mobile applications and specifically the impact on backend components and API’s is highly desired
  • Diverse and evolving technology background with a demonstrated ability to balance pragmatism and innovation in making technology and architectural decisions.
  • Experience with Sumo Logic, Data Dog, or similar tools preferred
  • Knowledge of AWS, Python, Postgres, and AngularJS/React is highly desired.
  • Desire to work in a mission-driven company that will change people’s lives.
  • B.S. or advanced engineering or technology degree.

Perks:

  • We value diversity and treat every employee with a high degree of autonomy and respect.
  • Have a big impact by joining a small, fast-paced and smart team. We are having fun building a great company and helping one of the most important industries in the world.
  • Upward movement.  We are growing quickly and need talent who can take on increasingly challenging and rewarding roles.
  • Employer sponsored medical, dental, vision
  • Competitive salary, bonus plan and generous 401(k) match

 

To apply visit:

https://boards.greenhouse.io/granular/jobs/1215840

SBA Administrator Linda McMahon Visits Research Park

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LINDA MCMAHON VISITS RESEARCH PARK: The SBA Administrator toured EnterpriseWorks, the Research Park's technology business incubator, and met with entrepreneurs.

Linda McMahon Visits Research Park
Category: 
Entrepreneurial Support

Linda McMahon Visits Research Park

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SBA Administrator Linda McMahon and Jim Langer of Serionix

Linda McMahon, the 25th Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, visited the Research Park today to tour EnterpriseWorks, the technology business incubator that focuses on science- and research-based entrepreneurs.

 

The visit was organized by the Illinois Small Business Development Center at Champaign County EDC

 

McMahon heard an overview of the University of Illinois Research Park and talked with several EnterpriseWorks technology startups including Serionix, Reconstruct, AirScout, and Petronics. 

 

In addition to showcasing small businesses, the visit highlighted the local entrepreneurial ecosystem and the programs in place to help small businesses succeed, including services through the SBDC / International Trade Center and programs like University of Illinois Research Park's Shared Services Program and the City of Champaign - Municipal Government's Small Business Incentive Program.

 

Media coverage and videos to follow. 

 

Research Park Featured in Illinois Business Leader

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The University of Illinois Research Park is highlighted in this month’s issue of Illinois Business Leader as one of the biggest hubs in Illinois for innovation and technological advancement. The article discusses the roles of the University of Illinois Research Park and Champaign-Urbana in the growing influence of the Midwest has in the areas of STEM.

Laura Frerichs, Director of the Research Park, was interviewed for the August issue of Illinois Business Leader. Frerichs discusses the success of the park and how it has changed and grown into a leader of AgTech. Frerichs sites many of the large companies in Champaign as leaders for the Research Park’s growth such as John Deere, Syngenta, Agrible, and many more.

Not only are these companies helping the Research Park progress, but the University plays a big role in the success of the park as well. “The University of Illinois has a powerful combination of being both elite and large, one of the top five engineering schools in the United States, but also one of the largest engineering schools in the United States,” Frerichs states. The Research Park takes advantage of this by employing over 700 students. “The businesses are grooming the students to become a pipeline of future talent.” This is just the beginning for the Research Park as it continues to grow.

Read more on the Research Park’s influence on the growth of the Midwest tech scene here.

 

PSYONIC Featured in Economist

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The Economist recently featured Research Park company, PSYONIC for their work transforming lives and fostering innovation. Recent breakthroughs in 3D printing have lowered barriers and have enabled the creation of simple and functional prosthetics like the ones PSYONIC creates.

In 2011, Ivan Owen, a design pioneer, uploaded a YouTube clip of his self built "mechanical hand." After viewers saw this video, it became an extremely important artifact in the history of manufacturing prosthetics. He partnered with Richard Van As, a finger amputee from South Africa to create a set of artificial fingers. They soon developed a child-sized prosthetic that was later tested on a South African boy.

In April, researchers at the University of Illinois revealed an algorithm that controls the flow of electricity sent through the device to the wearer's nerve endings when the prosthetic limb comes in contact with a physical surface. "We want users to be able to reliably feel things as delicate as a child's hand" Aadeel Akhtar, the device's creator says. As these technologies develop along with the 3D pringer, people with limb differences will benefit from renewed feelings in the near future.

To read the full story, click here

Machine Learning Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
careers@capitalone.com
Description: 

Machine Learning Software Engineer

Apply here: https://rolp.co/VBMlf

Are you a high performing engineer or data scientist passionate about cutting edge Machine Learning research or applying the latest advances to production projects?  Do you enjoy reading and investigating advancements in applied machine learning architectures and solution white papers? Would you like to participate in the creation of publishable advancements in machine learning? Or does the idea of building enterprise-class ML applications that solve real customer problems excite you? At Capital One’s Center for Machine Learning (C4ML), you'll be part of an elite team setting the example for machine learning research and applied machine learning.

The team at Data Innovation Team (part of C4ML) on the UIUC campus in research park is specifically focused on unsupervised and semi-supervised solutions to data related problems. Whether it is profiling data, identifying & tracking model drift, or creating synthetic data - we are a tight knit group, focusing on machine learning problems which deliver high value.

What we work on:

  • Generating synthetic data, utilizing RNNs and GANs

  • Identify complex data types, utilizing RNNs (think SSN, Address, Phone Number)

  • Developing distributed and serverless systems to enable machine learning in the cloud

  • Hyperparameter tuning at an enterprise scale

  • Patent our cutting edge technologies

Who you are:

  • You have explored the intricacies of a data set to extract insights or have built models that predict or identify patterns used to answer high value business questions

  • You have contributed to full stack systems built for speed and distributed computing and feel proud to ship code to delight end users.

  • You desire being part of cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering world-class solutions on an aggressive schedule

  • You love to learn new technologies, keep abreast of the latest technologies within the cloud architecture, and drive your organization to adapt to emerging best practices

  • You are the go-to person to answer deep technical questions about which ML algorithm may improve results or what visualization is best to explore relationships in the data

  • It would be awesome if you have a robust portfolio on Github or open source contributions you are proud to share

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Military Experience

  • At least 1 years of experience working with Machine Learning, Deep Learning or Artificial Intelligence

  • At least 1 year of experience programming in Python and either Ruby, R, Matlab, C++, Scala or Java

  • At least 1 years of experience designing and building full stack solutions

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree or PhD

  • At least 2 years of experience with cloud software design using microservices

  • At least 2 years of experience with machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, Pytorch or Keras

  • A history of publications and conference attendance

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation, please contact Capital One Recruiting at 1-800-304-9102 or via email atRecruitingAccommodation@capitalone.com. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations.

For technical support or questions about Capital One's recruiting process, please send an email to Careers@capitalone.com

Capital One does not provide, endorse nor guarantee and is not liable for third-party products, services, educational tools or other information available through this site.

Capital One Financial is made up of several different entities. Please note that any position posted in Canada is for Capital One Canada, any position posted in the United Kingdom is for Capital One Europe and any position posted in the Philippines is for Capital One Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC)

Electrical Engineer/Optical Design Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
masha.trenhaile@abbvie.com
Description: 

Company Name: AbbVie
Category: Electrical Engineer/Optical Design Engineer
Position Title: Electrical Engineering Reactor Prototyping
Status: Graduate Hourly
Hours per week: 10 – 15 during academic year
35 – 40 during summer semester
Contact Email: Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Who We Are:
AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science.

Position Description:
The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
• Working on creating a prototype for a chemical photo reactor.
• Design and prototype the project from design phase to execution

Qualifications:
• Must be registered as a full-time student
• Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
• Graduate students preferred
• Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent
• Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship
• 10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
• Creative problem solver with ability to understand larger picture but who will focus on details
• Passion for design and prototyping with ability for user experience
• Ability to design and deliver clean and usable photoreactor based on input from chemists

Preferred Skills:
• Experience with laser technology
• Experience with optics
• Ability to design electrical components
• Software experience

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the fall semester 2018 with an option to continue through the spring and summer 2018-2019 academic year.

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com
Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com


Software Engineering Intern

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Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
across@imo-online.com
Description: 

Looking to make a difference in healthcare? Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) is changing the future of healthcare in ways you may never have considered. Become a Software Engineering intern that helps design and create medical terminology solutions to support over 80% of US clinicians.

Entering patient information into medical record systems without IMO is a lot like trying to search/utilize the internet without any natural language processing. Our software solutions allow nearly 90% of all US physicians to focus on CARE not on CODES, providing not only google-esque searching but also specialized “helper” drop-downs to ensure that the medical record captures the physicians’ intent, and that the patient information translates properly into billing and other code systems to facilitate payment and treatment.

Our interns work side-by-side with our engineers in our small, Agile, software teams, working on real production software, in a variety of languages and areas of specialty.

Teams/Areas: We offer summer internships in multiple teams and areas, including:

  1. Software Engineering / Development
  2. Data Science / Big Data Analysis
  3. Business Intelligence

Types of Projects: As a Software Engineering intern at IMO, based on your background and interest, things you might be working on include:

  • Working on real, production software products using modern software development tools and languages, such as C#, .NET, SQL, Angular, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, and more!
  • Exploring natural language processing in a very specialized environment
  • Working on agile teams that leverage the agile Scrum framework
  • Working within a full life-cycle development environment which brings together software engineering and DevOps, from coding standards and process to continuous integration and continuous delivery.
  • Working with AWS, from Redshift to infrastructure-as-code
  • Extract and leverage IMO's data warehouse leveraging Oracle, MYSQL, and Redshift via SQL queries
  • Building out CI/CD pipelines to build and deploy code
  • Leveraging AWS services and infrastructure to develop software

Please Apply If You Have A Good Combination of the Following Skills & Attributes:

  • Pursuing or new graduate with degree in Math, Statistics, Informatics, Information Sciences, Engineering, Computer Science or related
  • Strong analytic skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to perform tasks with little direction
  • An enjoyment of technical challenges and eagerness to explore new approaches
  • A willingness to ask for help and to communicate what you need to do your best work

 

Additional Value To You:

  • Extensive Industry/Organizational Training
  • Extensive Software/Data/BI team-specific training (Agile, code reviews, etc.)
  • Career Development group training and individual coaching (presentation skills, business professionalism, business etiquette, résumé workshop, etc.)
  • Social events
  • Fun work environment
  • Extensive mentor program designed to build life-long connections
  • IMO genuinely encourages efficiency and welcomes feedback. Many times our interns have provided suggestive feedback in ways in which our internship program, our products, and our internal tools could be improved

 

You can apply for this position at: https://www.e-imo.com/careers?gnk=job&gni=8a7887aa657e4d5d0165ca292b9b7f1a

 

Knowledge Team Operations

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Category: 
Data/Analytics
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
across@imo-online.com
Description: 
Are you someone who would be interested in why “adverse effect” and “adverse reaction” are considered synonymous, but “side effect” is not? 
Students who love language, words, puzzles, and medical terminology needed!
NO medical education or medical terminology experience required.

Looking to make a difference in healthcare? Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) is changing the future of healthcare in ways you may never have considered. Become a part of the team behind medical terminology solutions that support over 80% of US clinicians.

Entering patient information into medical record systems without IMO is a lot like trying to search/utilize the internet without any natural language processing. Our software solutions allow physicians to focus on CARE not on CODES, providing not only google-esque searching but also specialized “helper” drop-downs to ensure that the medical record captures the physicians’ intent, and that the patient information translates properly into billing and other code systems to facilitate payment and treatment.

IMO is rapidly expanding its terminology software into all segments of the healthcare industry. At IMO, a core team of clinicians, software developers and engineers combines computer science and medical expertise to help patients and healthcare professionals access high quality health information quickly and easily to improve total patient health. IMO is a privately held multi-million dollar corporation enjoying explosive growth. 

Our interns work side-by-side with our knowledge team experts, working on real-world data, assisting clinicians all over the US to implement and gain benefit from the gold standard for medical terminology! 

Teams/Areas: We offer summer or summer-to-school-year internships in multiple teams and areas, including:

  1. Knowledge Team Operations, Medical Term Analyst - working side-by-side with full time staff in analyzing incoming data from our Electronic Health Record (EHR) partners, clinicians' offices, and master coding systems
  2. Knowledge Team Operations Infrastructure:
    1. working side-by-side with a very small, close-knit team that provide the support, database and software tools needed to make the Medical Terminology Analysts Successful
    2. SQL, Database Management or Project Management Skills/Interests are recommended for this unique opportunity

Please Apply If You Have A Good Combination of the Following Skills & Attributes:

  • Pursuing or new graduate with degree in a related subject area - such as library science, linguistics, philosophy, pre-med/vet/pharmacy, hospital administration, humanities, life sciences, Computer Science
  • A love of words and language and/or word puzzles / games 
  • A genuinely organized approach to thinking with a desire to truly understand patterns, processes and guidance
  • An existing knowledge of SQL or a desire to learn the basics of database management and queries to accelerate your work flows
  • Strong analytic skills
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to perform tasks with little direction
  • An enjoyment of technical challenges and eagerness to explore new approaches
  • A willingness to ask for help and to communicate what you need to do your best work
Where Is This Internship Located Exactly and What Does Summer/School Year mean?
  1. Locations - Students are welcome to intern at either location, and many intern at NB during the summer but at UIUC during the school year.
    1. ​Headquarters at Northbrook IL
    2. Internship-focused innovation office at the University of Illinois Research Park location. 
  2. Summer, with/without Semesters- IMO offers internships both for summer only, and also for those students who wish to work full time summer, plus work part time (10-20 hours per week on average) during the school year. The training program is exceptionally thorough and in-depth, and students are strongly encouraged to consider working not only summer with us but also part time during their school terms if available.  
    1. Summers only - with the opportunity to reapply to return future summers;
    2. Summer/Fall;*
    3. Summer/Spring;*
    4. Summer/Fall & Spring;*
    5. Co-op assignment* - work full time summer plus full time during a school semester is also a possibility for a student who has worked at least one summer term and needs to take off a semester for financial, scheduling or other reasons.
*Offers for additional semesters assumes successful training and summer internship. All internships are 'at will' and an internship is not a guaranteed time period of work.

Additional Value To You:

  • Extensive Industry/Organizational Training
  • Extensive Linguistics, Medical-terminology specific training
  • Career Development group training and individual coaching (presentation skills, business professionalism, business etiquette, résumé workshop, etc.)
  • Social events
  • Fun work environment
  • Extensive mentor program designed to build life-long connections
  • IMO genuinely encourages efficiency and welcomes feedback. Many times our interns have provided suggestive feedback in ways in which our internship program, our products, and our internal tools could be improved

 

You can apply for this position at: https://www.e-imo.com/careers?gnk=job&gni=8a7887aa657e4d5d0165ca48c706216a

 

 

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UIRP Updates Master Plan To Direct Future Development

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The Research Park master plan has been significantly updated to reflect forward-thinking priorities such as infill development, tenant-driven amenities, walkability, and connectivity to the community and other parts of campus. Thank you to our colleagues at Ratio for their expertise and thank you to the many University and community stakeholders who participated in this process. Read more on the updates here.

The 21st Broadcasts Live from EnterpriseWorks

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Illinois Public Media made a very special trip to the Research Park on Tuesday, September 25 to broadcast their radio show, The 21st, live from the EnterpriseWorks incubator. The broadcast discussed startup culture in the Champaign-Urbana area, focusing on promising innovation from student entrepreneurs and startups within the incubator.

 

Host Niala Boodhoo spent the morning at the EnterpriseWorks incubator speaking with Director Laura Frerichs. Frerichs said the Research Park “is a hotbed of startup activity. There’s so much science happening at the University and ample opportunity to bring that to the market through the ingenuity of students, faculty, alumni that see an opportunity for new products and new technologies that can truly be disruptive.” They talked all about the startup workforce in Champaign-Urbana and how it contributes to technological growth.

 

Boodhoo also spent some time speaking with Research Park startup owners and iVenture entrepreneurs about their companies. She began with EarthSense founder Chinmay Soman and later interviewed Petronics co-founders Michael Friedman and Dave Cohen about the future of their businesses. She also spoke with iVenture participants Teresa Yang of PhantomCor and Kendall Furbee of Cut To The Case about their experience as student entrepreneurs.

 

To listen to “this very special 21st, live from EnterpriseWorks at the Research Park,” access the entire broadcast online here.

 

EnterpriseWorks Communications and Social Media Intern - Fall 2018/Spring 2019

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Category: 
Marketing, Social Media, PR
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
jskim3@illinois.edu
Description: 

EnterpriseWorks & University of Illinois Research Park

Who we are

Research Park is a technology hub for corporate operations focusing on innovative, cutting edge research and development. EnterpriseWorks is an award-winning incubator at the Research Park that focuses on science and research-based start-up companies commercializing technology from the University of Illinois. We have a multifaceted team of professionals and interns dedicated to helping our startups and corporations thrive in the Research Park.

Communication and Social Media Internship

Do you love to write and pride yourself as being creative and good with words? Do you love to use social media? Do you enjoy working with different types of people? Do you thrive in a fast paced, team-oriented atmosphere? Then this is the position for you.

What You’ll Do

The Communications and Social Media Intern will demonstrate their excellent written and verbal communication skills by writing news stories that highlight exciting things happening at the Research Park, crafting tweets and other social media posts that are enticing, yet specific, and working with graphic designers to create materials to promote events. They will collaborate and coordinate with Research Park leadership and the EnterpriseWorks intern team to ensure timely marketing/branding and promotions of jobs, events, and news through appropriate platforms. An intern will be able to propose new and innovative ways to increase Research Park’s brand awareness in the community and campus as well as manage ongoing communications projects such as weekly announcements and monthly student newsletters. In addition, the intern will ensure that information on the Research Park website, calendars, and all social media platforms is up to date and correct.

This position will begin at the start of the Fall semester at a minimum of 10 hours per week.

Requirements

  • Applicants must be available to work 10-20 hours per week during Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
  • At the time of employment, you must be a full-time enrolled student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Graduation date must be December 2019 or after
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to tell a great story in multiple formats and lengths (e.g. photos, video clips, and words)
  • Understanding of internet and social media marketing best practices
  • Experience in multiple social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn
  • Excellent proofreading and editing skills; Strong attention to detail
  • Good project management and time management skills/work within structure
  • Ability to work in fast-paced environments and balance multiple projects
  • Ensure all projects are delivered on-time and within scope
  • Maintain clear communications with management on project status

 

Nice to have

  • Experience with Webtools, Hootsuite
  • Ability to edit web content through Wordpress  
  • Practical writing experience outside of the classroom

To apply submit your application here: http://go.researchpark.illinois.edu/CommInternApp

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis; we are looking to hire multiple candidates for this position.

Seeking at least one candidate that is familiar with Agriculture to adequately communicate the advances in Agricultural Technology being produced by many of the companies at Research Park. If applicable, please provide the extent of knowledge you have in this field in either your cover letter or resume. 

Compensation: Hourly wage will be $12.00/hour and will be paid by the University of Illinois.

Reporting: Position reports to the Associate Director of Research Park.

Timing: Student is expected to work 10-20 hours per week during the academic year. Pending successful performance reviews, the internship can continue through multiple semesters including a full-time internship during the summer.

Promotion potential: Commitment to polished deliverables and demonstration of strong leadership skills can lead to a promotion to a Senior Communication and Social Media Intern position.

For more information, please visit www.researchpark.illinois.edu. For questions please email Jenny Kim at jskim3@illinois.edu and Emily Orden at orden2@illinois.edu

 

Tech Lead

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
brandon.dohman@syngenta.com
Description: 

Hi! We’re Syngenta Digital Labs-- a fast-growing contender in the fields of digital innovation, intelligence, and agricultural technology. And we’re looking for a Technical Lead in our Champaign Research Park office. As Tech Lead, you will be a key member of the development team and actively collaborate with key client stakeholders on technical issues, opportunities and successes, as well as help guide the technical direction of the project(s) you’re working on. We don’t want someone who is looking to fill the status quo. We want someone who wants to make waves and to inspire originality in their projects. Bottom line: what matters is that you are passionate about what you do, and that should show.

Firm Qualifications:

  • Works well within team settings
  • You must have 6+ years of experience leading a team of developers and projects
  • Can ensure that work delivered across teams is of excellent quality and complies with stated requirements
  • Ability to develop web applications, web services, ETL and database code/scripts in support of project goals
  • Understands how and when to use Machine Learning. Ability implement and code within algorithms where necessary.
  • Loves Agile development and DevOps

Preferred requirements:

  • Possesses a strong grasp of development methodologies and is expert or experienced in our core languages and systems - React/Python/AWS/Linux
  • Capable of solving complex problems and working on multiple projects/tasks simultaneously to meet project deadlines as required.
  • Can communicate effectively across a variety of mediums (email, phone, video)

 Job Perks:

  • Modern and flexible workplace model.
  • Awesome coworkers that are eager to help you learn (both in your own field and in areas completely new to you!)
  • Impeccable collection of snacks and drinks (not to mention a grade-A cappuccino machine)

 

** This is a contract position. 

Interested? Apply Here

PYGHACK 2018: Engaging Coders, Designers, Engineers, and Dreamers

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On September 29-30, University of Illinois Research Park's EnterpriseWorks hosted the second annual PygHack. This 24-hour hackathon brought together campus and community to build and innovate for the greater good of Champaign-Urbana. 

Sixteen teams completed projects and submitted them for review. Projects were judged on community benefit, collaboration, design, functioning prototype, and innovation. Project submissions ranged from CUConnect, an educational job board that connects UIUC students, families and local businesses to a submission called ProfessorsPet, a generalized algorithm that evaluates a competitiveness index for a class, professor and students. 

Thank you to Research Park companies, Huawei, Granular, and Wolfram for the generous prizes provided to winners.

For more information about the second annual PygHack and to see all submissions, click here


PYGHACK 2018: Engaging Coders, Designers, Engineers, and Dreamers

Catalyze: A Professional Networking Event

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Want to learn more about tech companies in Champaign-Urbana and/or build your network and grow your career? Join us for CATALYZE on October 18 from 5:30-7PM. 

Meet with employers located in Research Park and the local Champaign-Urbana community that range from Fortune 500 companies to startups. 

This is not a career fair, but an opportunity to showcase the Champaign-Urbana tech community, welcome newcomers, and build relationships. 

Some companies in attendance will be hiring. We do encourage job seekers to bring resumes and business cards. We'll also have on-site resume reviews available in various conference rooms. No preregistration required.

Catalyze: A Professional Networking Event

Data Science, Machine Learning, AI Intern

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masha.trenhaile@abbvie.com
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Company Name: AbbVie
Category: Software Engineering
Position Title: Data Science, Machine Learning, AI Intern
Status: Graduate Hourly
Hours per week: 10 – 15 during academic year
35 – 40 during summer semester
Contact Email: Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Who We Are:
AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science.

Position Description:
The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
• Working on process automation proof of concept projects, with a specific focus on robotic process automation, machine learning, and cognitive computing
• Analyzing the business problem and determining the best machine learning algorithm/approach to use to address the problem
• Training machine learning models and verifying the accuracy of the output

Qualifications:
• Must be registered as a full-time student
• Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
• Undergraduate and Graduate students
• Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent
• Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship
• 10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester

Preferred Skills:
• Creative problem solver with ability to understand the larger picture but who will focus on the details leading to resolution of the problem
• Familiarity with machine learning, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data insights, R, Python
• Foundational experience with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the fall semester 2018 with an option to continue through the spring, summer 2018-2019 academic year.

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com
Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com

Security Analyst/Information Security Developer

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Contact Email: 
masha.trenhaile@abbvie.com
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Company Name: AbbVie
Category: Security Research Analyst
Position Title: Information Security Developer
Status: Undergraduate Hourly
Hours per week: 10 – 15 during academic year
35 – 40 during summer semester
Contact Email: Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Who We Are:
AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science.

Position Description:
The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:
• Reviewing of security incident information to identify trends and document metrics
• Identify technical indicators to improve detection of future attacks
• Create reports and presentation to summarize security incidents for lessons learned
• Review technical artifacts from incidents to determine commonalities and gaps

Qualifications:
• Must be registered as a full-time student
• Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
• Undergraduate and Graduate students
• Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent
• Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship
• 10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester

Preferred Skills:
• Experience with examining data sets, such as system logs and tool output
• Ability to author clear reports or presentations
• (Ideally) Experience with information security concepts, vulnerabilities, malware, or intrusions

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the fall semester 2018 with an option to continue through the spring and summer 2018-2019 academic year.

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com
Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com

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