Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, has an exciting opportunity available for a Web Systems Engineer. Join the Web Systems Engineering team and work in a fast-paced environment where you’ll never lack for new and challenging projects.

The ideal candidate will be good at working independently with current web standards and initiatives in a flexible, innovative environment, and will have strong Linux skills.

Responsibilities:

• Linux (preferably CentOS or RHEL)
• Shell scripting
• Understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and principles
• Maintaining and administrating the infrastructure for our online products

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering is preferred, but your experience and technical abilities are of more interest than your academic credentials
• At least 2 years of systems engineering experience
• Proven experience with Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, BIND, PowerDNS, OpenLDAP, Postfix, RPM, Kickstart, Puppet, Cobbler

What Wolfram Offers:

Wolfram is full of entrepreneurial people working together to accomplish great things. It's a friendly and intellectually stimulating atmosphere set up to maximize individual productivity and achievement and to accommodate a wide range of working styles. Whether it's remote work, flexible schedules, or modern project management, Wolfram has long been a pioneer in employee-oriented workplace practices.

As a Wolfram employee, you will receive a competitive base salary plus incentives and commission; 401(k) matching; health, dental, and life insurance for you and your dependents; and above-average PTO.

Location: Champaign, IL

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Wolfram is looking for a strategic, entrepreneurial, and detail-oriented education product manager with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment to take Wolfram technologies to the cutting edge of the education landscape. Initial focus will be on the precollege market, but higher education will also be relevant over time.

The successful candidate will work with internal teams, including engineering, user experience, production, and customer communications, to create a product vision that ensures success throughout production and the launch of all of Wolfram’s education products. This individual will then synthesize and maintain plans for integrating product features into the larger technology ecosystem at Wolfram, following them through to successful launch.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the subject matter expert for all precollege and higher education projects
• Develop roadmaps for educational initiatives and products for Wolfram’s education technology
• Guide and actively participate in the conceptualization, production, and launch of educational initiatives with Wolfram’s education technology
• Provide leadership to project teams to ensure projects are delivered within standards, scope, budget, and schedules as identified in the strategic planning process
• Work with the project management team to manage systems to track project progress and proactively identify any problems and issues that need to be resolved in order to keep the project on track
• Develop and implement marketing plans for the rollout of releases and any initiative related to the education space
• Deliver presentations for approval on plans and status for Wolfram education initiatives to the executive team
• Serve as an interface with external partners, event organizers, and press to evangelize Wolfram’s strategic plan for Wolfram’s education technologies
• Plan and conduct virtual and physical events and social media for education
• Create and present training materials and marketing collateral for precollege educators and administrators
• Monitor and build Wolfram’s education community groups

Requirements:

• Proven ability to understand K-12 education and technology market space
• Master’s degree or higher in science, education, or technical area
• Practical teaching or administrative experience in K-12 highly desired
• Project management or product owner experience
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; excellent presentation skills
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with software development as developer or project manager a plus

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, are seeking motivated software engineers to help build innovative and scalable web tools for various web technologies. Our software engineers work closely with project managers, designers, and our user experience group to develop specifications and deploy new, interesting technologies on the web.

Responsibilities:

• Use various server side and client side web technologies to develop maintainable and testable code
• Configure and deploy on various Linux web server technologies
• Research and identify potential new technologies and architectures, and make recommendations to the team
• Implement, debug, and troubleshoot user interfaces with HTML/CSS/ and JavaScript
• Develop, debug, and troubleshoot web applications with Java Servlet Technology and PHP
• Configure, debug, and troubleshoot web server technologies such as Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTPD
• Be able to work with database technologies such as MySQL
• Work closely with a team and communicate with efficiency and accuracy
• Create and execute new features

Requirements:

• Must be experienced in web development with Java (or similar technologies), JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Must have experience with MySQL or similar relational database
• Must have experience with Linux administration
• Must have experience configuring and running Apache Tomcat or similar servlet containers
• Must be familiar with web standards and practices
• Must be familiar with creating and consuming REST Web Services
• Familiarity with Apache HTTPD web server is a plus
• Familiarity with PHP and Perl for web development is a plus
• Familiarity with Liferay is a plus
• Familiarity with working with scalable, clustered servers is a plus

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Wolfram, maker of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, is searching for a proactive individual with exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills for a project coordinator position located in Champaign, Illinois. The project coordinator will be responsible for managing a broad range of activities associated with the Wolfram website and prerelease of products. This position requires project management experience, strong communication skills, and the ability to interface with our technical and product development teams. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven team environment and has an enthusiasm for new technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Assist project leads to create and maintain project plans
• Proactively manage the execution of project plans for multiple projects
• Create and maintain roadmaps with input from project stakeholders
• Help create and maintain requirement lists
• Monitor the status, risks, and resources for the entire lifecycle of projects
• Create and maintain tickets with appropriate deadlines, watchers, and details needed to execute projects
• Set-up development sprints
• Identify, convey, and track project milestones
• Prepare agendas for meetings and lead the meetings as needed
• Collect detailed notes from meetings with discussion details, decisions made, next steps, and action items
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the company
• Establish, document, and improve internal processes
• Maintain projects pages and dashboards
• Monitor performance (project metrics)

Requirements:

• Degree in a business, marketing, or technical field
• Experience in project or product management and software or web-based tools for project management
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and interact with cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously
• High degree of initiative and excellent communication skills
• Experience with software or web project management is a plus
• Experience with Mathematica or other technical or scientific software a plus

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

For over 25 years, Wolfram has been pushing the boundaries of computation to deliver groundbreaking technology solutions across corporate, government, and educational sectors in all technical fields. Those solutions include Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, CDF, and the Wolfram Language.

We are seeking a software development manager for Wolfram Finance Platform.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative company known and respected worldwide as the leader in computation and computational knowledge across technical and scientific fields.

Responsibilities:

• Implement product development: software architecting
• Implement product development: lead development team
• Coordinate releases and product-related projects
• Design and implement compelling demos of key workflows and applications of functionality
• Formulate product description as basis for marketing

Requirements:

• Software development experience, including Mathematica and Wolfram technologies
• High-level technical background, including degree in a technical subject
• Organizational skills to manage complex projects
• Ability to work with and direct others

The position does not require finance industry experience; this is a good opportunity to learn it.

The Software Development Manager will report directly to the Wolfram Research Europe CEO, who is responsible for defining the product strategy and roadmap. This is a full-time position based at our UK or US headquarters

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, have an exciting opportunity for a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator. We are looking for an energetic, motivated individual with strong interpersonal and communication skills to work on a wide variety of issues while maintaining our Linux-based server infrastructure.

Work experience is a plus, but we are more interested in your ability to work independently to find creative technical solutions than in specific education or credentials.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage day-to-day tasks, including documentation of projects
• Attend meetings and report weekly progress
• Maintain Linux-based servers
• Install, configure, update, and troubleshoot services such as web server, database server, applications server, and mail; includes Apache, MySQL, PHP FTP, SSH, and DNS
• Ability to work with other groups, including usability and design
• Openly communicate with everyone involved on a project, especially with project coordinators and managers
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as required to fulfill job function or as assigned

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge in Linux/Unix operating system
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot server hardware issues
• Programming experience with Bash, Perl, Python preferred
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot scripting languages such as PHP, Bash, and Perl
• Knowledge of clustering, MySQL, network fundamentals, DNS and shell scripting
• Fundamental knowledge of servers/computer hardware and software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences
• Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and documentation skills
• Must work well within a team
• Working knowledge of database languages and infrastructure (MySQL, SQlite, MariaDB) preferred
• Working knowledge of services such as LDAP, Postfix, CVS/Git, etc. preferred
• Hadoop experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, or related field, OR two years related work experience in a corporate or academic environment

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Join the Database Development team and work in a large-scale, clustered environment where we never lack new and challenging projects. Your responsibilities will include the design, implementation, maintenance, and repair of the databases. This includes the development and design of database strategies and schema, as well as monitoring and improving database performance.

Responsibilities:

• Large clustered setup for internet-facing applications like Wolfram|Alpha
• Configure and support replication and fault tolerance
• Query-tuning and improving database performance
• Backups, restore, and disaster recovery
• Data loads

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience in MySQL or major databases setting up, configuring, administration, tuning, supporting replication, and fault tolerance
• Knowledge of relational schema design and NoSQL technology
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as shell, Perl, Python, etc.; Linux OS tools for monitoring
• BS in computer science or relative experience
• 1+ years of experience is preferred

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Wolfram is looking for a passionate and detail-oriented Technical Recruiter to drive Wolfram's recruiting strategy and implement technical initiatives and growth. Wolfram's work culture is forward-thinking. Our ideal candidate would possess a "can-do" attitude with a strong willpower to succeed.

As a Technical Recruiter for Wolfram, you will be both intrigued and delighted by our unique opportunities. No one position is alike, allowing you to constantly learn new aspects of our company and what we do. We have a close-knit "start-up" feel, and your ideas and innovation are respected, rewarded, and appreciated.

Wolfram is always looking for talented, enthusiastic, driven people to join our organization. As a Technical Recruiter, you are the voice of our company. It will be your job to emit that enthusiasm to attract top talent. Wolfram will allow you to have an impact on everything you touch, satisfy your entrepreneurial spirit, and place you directly in the path of cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with hiring teams to assess their needs and build an effective research platform
• Manage applicants and partnerships by assessing their skills and return on investment
• Determine true interest level of candidates by gauging chemistry, body language, and motivation
• Build and maintain a network of potential candidates through proactive market research and ongoing relationship management
• Manage full cycle recruiting plans with strong deliverables
• Coordinate and attend recruiting events
• Manage internal candidate tracking database
• Recommend and implement ideas and strategies related to recruitment of talent that will contribute to the growth of the company

Requirements:

• 3+ years technical recruiting experience in a high-growth, fast-paced, fluid environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Experience with applicant tracking systems
• Knowledge of state and federal laws related to recruitment
• Proven negotiation skills
• Experience using social media and the internet to identify candidates
• Bachelor's degree
• Technical background and knowledge of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha is a plus

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

DESCRIPTION:

The Yahoo Champaign Hadoop team is looking to hire back-end and front-end developers at all levels including: new college hires and experienced software engineers.

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

ABOUT YAHOO!

Yahoo! is the premier digital media company. We deliver your world, your way by creating deeply personal digital experiences that keep more than 700 million people connected to what matters most - across devices and around the globe. And it's the Yahoos behind the scenes who make this all possible. We are energetic, idea-driven people who are passionate about shaping the future of the digital world. So if this sounds like you, come show us what you've got.

In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Hadoop stack. Hadoop is the de-facto operating system for the worldwide cloud computing industry. Yahoo! is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundreds to over 30,000. We have over 400,000 cores and that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 20 clusters.

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help us build a highly scalable and robust next generation Hadoop stack. The qualified engineer would work on one or more components of the Hadoop stack including Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Pig, HCatalog, Oozie, Hive, Hbase, and overall Hadoop performance, Qualified engineers also might work on other open source projects like Storm, Spark, and Shark helping us drive the real time and iterative use cases.

If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!. If you want to learn about Hadoop and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

* Strong experience in building highly scalable systems in Java on Unix

* Experience with databases, data mining, and storage systems

* Strong in algorithms, and data structures

* Experience with development of distributed, low cost, highly scalable, and highly available server systems

* Excellent problem solving, debugging and testing skills

* Must have strong verbal and written communication skills

* Must have strong knowledge and keen interest in emerging tools and technologies in the industry

Preferable Job Qualifications:

* Experience in open source development 

* Knowledge of Hadoop internal (Core, Pig, Oozie, Hive, Hbase, Hcat)

* Knowledge of Storm, Spark, Shark

* Computer Science, Computer Engineer, or equivalent degree

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

– Nutrition Health Economics and Outcomes Research Intern –

Abbott Nutrition, UIUC Research Park

Who We Are:

Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to improving life through the development of products and technologies that span the breadth of healthcare. With a portfolio of leading, science-based offerings in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic pharmaceuticals, Abbott serves people in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 70,000 people.

Position Summary:

Abbott Nutrition is seeking a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student, to help support the Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) staff and conduct a comprehensive literature search on nutrition health economics by country.

A Nutrition Health Economics and Outcomes Research Intern will be responsible for:

·         Partnering with staff members in HEOR to conduct comprehensive, country specific, nutrition health economics literature searches and obtain copies of published research

·         Creating and organizing a database (spreadsheet) summarizing the key facts of each published research

·         Composing a technical review paper based on information obtained from literature searches and Abbott networking

·         Effectively communicating findings and progress to scientific mentor on a regular basis

·         An abbreviated executive summary and slide presentation

Qualifications:

·         Must be a current UIUC student

·         MA or MS in Economics, Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Nutrition and/or a related discipline

·         Experience in systematic and comprehensive literature searching, is preferred

·         Ability to read and synthesize large amounts of technical information

·         Knowledge in the use of Microsoft Office applications

·         Work independently and responds well to feedback

·         Self-motivated, reliable, and able to meet deadlines

·         Excellent verbal/written English language skills

What We Offer to Our Student Employees:

·         Part-time, paid position at the UIUC Research Park Abbott office

·         Hourly wage commensurate with year in school

·         10-20 hours/week (exceptions made on a case-by-case basis)

·         Flexible work schedule, Monday-Saturday

Position Start Date:

·         Position to be filled as soon as possible, and funded at least through the 2014 Fall Semester

·         Preference given to candidates that can commit through the end of Fall Semester

Application Deadline: June 16, 2014

Interested in Applying?

Candidates should complete an online application at www.abbott.com/careers, and under Search Jobs use the keywords, “University Science Park Opportunities.”  Additionally, candidates should send a copy of their resume or CV to abbottresearchpark@abbott.com and attention to Roger Antoniazzo and Dustin Starkey. 

Phi Optics (www.phioptics.com), a start-up company developing novel optical microscopy for live cell imaging, has an immediate opening for a talented and highly motivated software engineer. The engineer will design and develop software to be used in a new generation of optical microscopes.

The ideal candidate has a BS/MS degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and experience in software/GUI development using

• C/C++
• NVIDIA CUDA
• MATLAB
• OpenCV
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• Digia Qt

Preference will be given to candidates familiar with device programming, numerical analysis, and image processing. Salaries are commensurate with experience and stock options are available.

Phi Optics is an Equal Opportunity employer. Please send your resume to: Phi Optics, Inc. 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820 or by email, to info@phioptics.com.