Senior Software Engineer

Illinois Applied Research Institute

College of Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Illinois Applied Research Institute (ARI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) seeks applicants for a Senior Software Engineer position.  The Senior Software Engineer will focus on the design and development of visualization, user interface design and information design. Primary topic areas include, but are not limited to, personalized medical and clinical decision-making.  The candidate will be a full-time, benefits-eligible academic professional appointed on a 12-month service basis. The expected start date is as soon as possible following the closing date. Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

The ARI is a rapidly growing research, development and engineering (RD&E) venture on the Urbana-Champaign campus. The ARI responds to a set of long-standing regional and national needs to compete for and execute applied research and development projects normally considered beyond traditional boundaries of the University of Illinois enterprise; to provide rapid response to technical opportunities and requirements; and to enhance commercial and employment opportunities. These combined requirements drive the structure of the Institute. More information about this position and the ARI can be found at http://appliedresearch.illinois.edu/.

Duties and Responsibilities

·         Develop new visual metaphors and interactive processes, coupled with machine learning approaches, to effectively understand complex data and analytical methods

·         Develop and apply techniques and approaches in information design which support multiple levels of communication and decision-making, such as between peer experts, multi-disciplinary partners, and between expert and novice

·         Enlist rapid prototyping methodologies and develop high fidelity comps and specifications to support the entire UI/UX development and implementation process

·         Communicate with analysts, researchers, and novice users to identify and assist in resolving the primary challenges they face in understanding their data

·         Collaborate with experts in computer science and mathematics to understand analytical approaches and how results could be represented or explored

·         Lead the design effort and test innovative visual/interactive concepts for portraying appropriate data

·         Work closely with programmers to refine and implement software solutions

·         Plan, schedule and manage tasks for the UI/UX development process

·         Participate in the writing and editing of quick-start guides and grant proposals

·         Lead the design effort for various presentation materials and infographics as needed

·         Mentor design students as needed

·         Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

·         Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design or related field

·         10+ years of professional work experience in the following key areas:

o   Data Representation Design, Information Design and User Interface/Experience Design

o   Developing high fidelity comps and specifications for UI/UX

o   Eliciting requirements needed for UI/UX development

o   Working in a collaborative software development environment

·         5+ years of professional work experience in developing commercial quality software

·         Experience writing requirements and functional definition documents, scope management, and quality assurance of the UI/UX implementation process

·         Extensive knowledge of visual communications and human-computer interaction

·         Demonstrated ability to understand complex problems and develop novel solutions

·         Produce a portfolio of prior work that demonstrates quality design skills and the ability to apply aesthetic and visual design strategies to problems of data presentation and UI/UX design

·         Proven ability to organize short-term tasks, plan long-term goals and work well on a team

·         Demonstrated quality writing and editing skills

·         Extensive skills in using Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator

Preferred Qualifications

·         15+ years of professional work experience in the following key areas:

o   Data Representation Design, Information Design and User Interface/Experience Design

o   Developing high fidelity comps and specifications for UI/UX

o   Eliciting requirements needed for UI/UX development

o   Working in a collaborative software development environment

·         Experience with Muse, Dreamweaver, After Effects, or Captivate

·         Experience with InVision or other rapid prototyping apps

·         Familiarity using CSS and HTML

·         Familiarity designing for PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Present

To apply for this position, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu and upload your cover letter, resume, and names/contact information for three references as a single PDF file by
15 May 2015. Interviews and hires may take place prior the closing date and early applications are encouraged; however, full consideration will be given to complete applications received by the closing date.  For further information regarding application procedures, contact Summer Redman at sredman@illinois.edu or 217-300-5400.

Illinois is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. Illinois welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

As a Technical Solutions Engineer (TSE), you will be an integral member of our engineering team, responsible for investigating incoming product matters/escalations for successful resolution and developing customized engineering projects derived from our clients’ online-marketing requirements. Through working closely with our software engineers and product teams, you will gain a unique end-to-end perspective of the Turn product suite. Your contribution will be valuable to not only our internal users that provide class-leading service to our customers, but also help our product development team shape the future vision of our products.

There is tremendous growth and career path for this role.  The technical design and diagnosis tasks you will face will be complex and will require a strong analytical, data-driven approach to problem solving.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about technology and thrives in a highly-visible, cross-functional team interactive environment.

Responsibilities

• Achieve expert level end-to-end understanding of the Turn product suite
• In-depth diagnosis of incoming technical support cases that have been escalated to tier 3; duties include deep-dive code investigations, access server logs, executing SQL queries, running map-reduce jobs
• Coordinate with engineering teams in identifying, reporting, and resolving product issues
• Develop tools to improve the team's efficiency, fix bugs, develop new custom features
• Partner with clients to understand and develop customized engineering solutions per their online-marketing product and usability requirements
• Participate in design review meetings with product and engineering teams to provide feedback and insight on upcoming product plans
• Mentor and collaborate with TSEs and Customer Success teams

Qualifications

• 1 – 3+ years of relevant work experience; or BA/BS degree in CS, Engineering, or related field; or
• Good programming skills in Java preferred or C++/C#
• Solid knowledge of relational databases (RDBMS) and experience in generating and executing SQL. Oracle is preferred or MySQL
• Strong understanding of web development protocols HTML, JavaScript, HTTP including headers and response codes, and networking-related protocols
• Experience with Linux development environment is highly desired
• Passion for technology and eager to dive-in to figure out how things work
• Flexible and responsive to dynamic situations and changing priorities; eager to roll up sleeves and do whatever it takes to help make projects and clients successful
• Dedicated, team oriented, creative, and an exceptional problem solver
• Ability to quickly understand business logic and be able to translate into expected technical behavior
• Ability to work independently, strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Prior experience related to ad serving and on-line marketing technology an asset

Location: Champaign, Illinois; On the University of Illinois campus in the Research Park

About Turn

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and enterprises make decisions. Our digital advertising hub enables audience planning, media execution, and real-time analytics from a single login, and provides point-and-click access to more than 150 integrated marketing technology partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley and provides its products and services worldwide. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @turnplatform.

The recently-opened Turn Innovation Center, located in the University of Illinois Research Park, is Turn’s first engineering office and innovation center outside of the corporate headquarters. The Turn Innovation Center offers the same excitement and challenges working in the fast-paced online advertising industry as Turn’s headquarters, but additionally offers the opportunities for professional and leadership growth of a new and expanding office. The Research Park, consistently ranked as one of the top research parks and tech incubators in the country, offers a variety of social and training events throughout the year. All employees at companies within the Research Park are affiliate members of the University, and receive benefits accordingly (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/at-illinois/affiliation-benefits).

Application

Please apply on the Turn Career's website at: http://jobsco.re/1JSXgwS

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Bud Lab Global Data Scientist – Full Time

Sensory & Consumer Science

We are looking for a person that is able to balance a deeply analytical background with an entrepreneurial spirit. You are willing to embrace our passion about beer and want to be part of a start-up style environment with the resources and future opportunities of a large corporation. Ideally you have a broad skill set and are willing to take on any challenge.

Description

The Bud Lab Global Data Scientist is responsible for supporting our Global Sensory & Consumer Science team in defining and executing exploratory analytics aligned to strategic business initiatives, demands, and opportunities.  

Minimum Requirements

•       Master or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics & Econometrics, Marketing Research, Computer Science or related technical field

•       Strong skills in applied statistical to R&D:

-       Experiment Design

-       Modeling

-       Multivariate analysis, ANOVA, Clustering...

•       Fluency in English (written/spoken), other language skills constitute an additional asset.

•       3+ years hands on experience as Data scientist or PhD in Data scientist field, executing business analytics projects and developing solutions in the consumer products industry

•       Advanced proficiency in mathematics and computer science

•       Proficiency in programming with R, Hadoop, and  data visualization tools like Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire

Desired

•       Knowledge in programming with SAS is an asset

•       Experience in the implementation of solutions for end users

•       Experience working with large data sets, including statistical analyses,  data visualization, data mining, and data cleansing/transformation

•       Experience working with structured and unstructured data

•       Knowledge in beer tasting or adjacent categories (wine, spirit, cocktails, ciders, Soft drinks), is an asset.

•       Skills in MS Office tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio

•       Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment

Leadership Competencies

•       Pragmatic and strategic thinking

•       Target-oriented with discipline for planning and implementation

•       Strong team player, an excellent listener

•       Always put things in context and develop options and recommendations for the team, taking costs, time and results into account

•       Identify and propose adequate external center of expertise to support projects and best practice development

•       Act as on owner with a “hands-on” orientation

•       Strong networking

•       Ability to assess ideas and create a pipeline of solutions;

•       Design Thinking

•       Ability to influence and shape ideas into implementation plans/programs;

•       Ability to Manage Projects

•       Research capabilities (with statistics)

•       Green Belt - Solid analytical skills

•       Knowledge of MS Project or similar

•       Business case building experience

Applications

Please send your Resume and Cover Letter to chris.chauvin@anheuser-busch.com and claire.hidrio@ab-inbev.com

About Turn

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and marketers make decisions. Our cloud applications and Internet-scale architecture work together to provide a complete picture of customers, execute cross-channel campaigns, and connect with a worldwide ecosystem of over 100 partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Amsterdam, Champaign, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and São Paulo. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @TurnPlatform.

Please take a moment to view our award-winning culture video at: http://www.turn.com/working-at-turn/

About the Position

We are looking for experienced software engineers to join our growing Applications team, responsible for all of the client-facing components here at Turn. You should be motivated by leading and evangelizing new software technologies, providing technical mentorship to junior engineers, designing and implementing high performance multi-tiered web-based enterprise applications that are used to manage hundreds of millions of dollars in digital marketing spend around the globe.

The Applications team works closely with the Product Management and User Experience teams to jointly design our products. Our work process is a nice blend of agile and design-oriented development which puts the customer experience first and foremost.  You may deal with projects such as optimizing user experience page load latency perception, or complex data visualization on large amount of data.

We are mostly full stack developers with exposure to everything – back-end, front-end, and everything in between. Some projects may involve more front-end development using cutting-edge JavaScript frameworks; others will involve working on backend infrastructure APIs that handles the majority of the business and workflow logic, interact with our various data stores, aggregate and correlate the data accordingly. In either case, the collaborative nature of the team allows you to constantly learn new things and mentor others.

At Turn, what you build has impact on millions and works to better the Internet. You’ll do this in one of the fastest growing companies in the Silicon Valley, with a culture that promotes innovation, freedom, growth, and humor. You’ll work with people who are as passionate about enterprise web applications as you are, along with leading experts in distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning who build our backend platform.

We are very passionate about what we do here, and at the same time have fun doing what we love.  Various company and team events/outings provide a good mix of work and play.  We all need to chill out every once in a while and have fun with our fellow team members.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science from a top tier school
• 3+ years of software development experience
• High degree of comfort in Java or other object-oriented language
• Experience with web-based development, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with JavaScript libraries such as jQuery or AngularJS.
• Knowledge of application frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate
• Experience with database technologies
• Familiarity with the MVC pattern and dependency injection
• Keen sense of information architecture and visual design
• Motivated by writing fast, scalable code with testability in mind
• Strong problem solving skills
• Experience with highly scalable and high performance web application architecture
• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment

Key Points

• Serve as technical/development lead on key product initiatives.
• Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers
• Influence and evangelize new software technologies to other team members
• Work closely with other software development leads to make technical recommendations and decisions
• Experimenting with new ways of visualizing large amounts of data
• Continuous usability improvements on complex workflows
• Ensure our technology stack stays current.
• Passionate about web based enterprise applications

Location:  Champaign, Illinois; On the University of Illinois campus in the Research Park

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits.

Please apply on the Turn Careers site at: http://jobsco.re/1GgwSsJ

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

About Turn

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and marketers make decisions. Our cloud applications and Internet-scale architecture work together to provide a complete picture of customers, execute cross-channel campaigns, and connect with a worldwide ecosystem of over 100 partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Amsterdam, Champaign, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney and São Paulo. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @TurnPlatform.

Please take a moment to view our award-winning culture video at: http://www.turn.com/working-at-turn/

About the Position

We are looking for brilliant and talented software engineers to join our rapidly growing Applications team, responsible for all of the client-facing components at Turn. You should be motivated by building high performance, web-based, enterprise applications that are used to manage hundreds of millions of dollars in digital marketing spend around the globe.

The Applications team works closely with the Product Management and User Experience teams to help design our products. We use agile methodologies with a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience.

We are mostly full stack developers with exposure to everything – back-end, front-end, and everything in between. Some projects may involve more front-end development using cutting-edge JavaScript frameworks; others will involve working on backend infrastructure APIs that interact with our data stores. In either case, the collaborative nature of the team allows you to constantly learn new things and mentor others.

At Turn, what you build has impact on millions and works to better the Internet. You’ll do this in a culture that promotes innovation, freedom, growth, and humor. You’ll work with people who are as passionate about web applications as you are, along with leading experts in distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning who build our backend platform. 

We are very passionate about what we do here, and at the same time have fun doing what we love.  Various company and team events and outings provide a good mix of work and play.  We all need to chill out every once in a while and have fun with our fellow team members.

Job Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science from a top tier school
• Anywhere from 0 – 5 years of experience
• High degree of comfort in Java or other object-oriented language
• Experience with web-based development, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with JavaScript and JavaScript libraries such as AngularJS
• Knowledge of application frameworks such as Spring 3
• Understanding of HTTP request/response lifecycle
• Experience with database technologies
• Keen sense of information architecture and visual design
• Strong problem solving skills
• Motivated by writing fast, scalable code with testability in mind
• Excited by working in a fast-paced environment

Key Points

• Working on high touch, high visibility, high performance, highly scalable enterprise applications - client facing apps involving campaign management, workflow, analytics, audience design, etc.
• Experimenting with new ways of visualizing large amounts of data
• Work with latest technologies. Tech stack includes: Java, Hibernate, Spring 3, AngularJS, D3, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, MongoDB
• Research on new web technologies
• Passionate about web based applications

Location:  Champaign, Illinois; On the University of Illinois campus in the Research Park

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits.

Please apply on the Turn Careers site at: http://jobsco.re/1Ggxsqv

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help drive solutions for complex software problems on systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineering managers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to lead teams that develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage, low-latency data retrieval, and data analytic systems.

We are looking for experienced software engineering managers to lead teams that analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

Everyone on staff at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers and managers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Strong knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

At the Champaign site we are looking for technically capable experienced managers who have industry experience leading and managing teams of 8 to 15 engineers with a history of delivering software products that

• are within resource constraints (schedule, budget, staff)

• are of high quality

• meet specified functional requirements

• are data-oriented (database, data analysis, data communication, etc.)

• use Unix or Linux systems

We are also looking for managerial experience with

• building teams

• managing personnel issues

• giving feedback

• mentoring

• managing production issues

If this describes you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

About Yahoo

We like to think of ourselves as the biggest start-up in Silicon Valley. We are reinventing an original Internet icon for the modern era to support the needs of the next generation of users and platforms through design.

Please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

About Yahoo

We like to think of ourselves as the biggest startup in Silicon Valley. We are reinventing an original Internet icon for the modern era to support the needs of the next generation of users and platforms through design.

If interested please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

• Statistical analysis to support the overall assessment of productivity across countries using critical KPIs and clustering for Zone comparison
• Develop additional insights and advanced reports for spend prediction, scenario simulation, additional KPIs and trends
• Work with key countries (US, Brazil, Mexico etc.)

Atmospheric Scientist (Position Code: 2014-AS-AI)

Ag Informatics has an immediate opening for an Atmospheric Scientist in our Champaign, Illinois office.

The successful candidate must have an MS or Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science or a related field with deep experience in climate or atmospheric modeling. The candidate must demonstrate experience working with global or regional atmospheric models and should be qualified or motivated to lead efforts to integrate cutting edge advances in atmospheric science and agriculture. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to assist our team with product development; programming, optimization, and will contribute to collaborative research. Occasional travel throughout the United States may be required.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following qualifications:

• An MS or Ph.D. in atmospheric science, computer science, or a related engineering curriculum.

• General understanding and strong interest in US or global agriculture.

• Self-motivated, organized, and resourceful with a desire to have fun and work hard.

• Exceptional aptitude in science, code writing, practical agriculture, and/or ag business with mobile or web application programming experience a plus.

• Eligibility to work in the United States without sponsorship Ag Informatics maintains a fast paced, dynamic, and fluid environment full of creativity and innovation.

We are a small company with a diverse set of professional backgrounds and pride ourselves on excellence. Salary and benefits will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Send your resume and a cover letter addressing your salary requirements and establishing your experience/qualifications for the criteria outlined above. Please note on your submittal the position code denoted above.

Please forward your resume and cover letter to careers@ag-informatics.com

www.ag-informatics.com EOE/AA Ag Informatics is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

• Work experience and a BS in a software development focused curriculum. 
• General understanding and strong interest in web application development.
• Experience defining, creating, and migrating data models.
• Self-motivated, organized, and resourceful with a desire to have fun and work hard. 
• Exceptional aptitude in implementing technical systems from design documentation. 
• Experience with HTML/CSS and JavaScript preferred.
• Eligibility to work in the United States without sponsorship 

Job Number: 1542203

Platforms and Personalization Products is responsible for building the next generation platforms and services enabling Yahoo to deliver deeply personalized content to the hundreds of millions of users wherever they are and whatever mode of consumption they are using. In the process, we are also accelerating and redefining the web technology ecosystem to become a first class programming paradigm.

So come join us and help us take our platforms and services to the next level and in turn drive more consumers to make Yahoo their daily habit.

A Little About Us

Yahoo’s Linux OS engineers are building the foundation for our next-generation platforms and rewiring Yahoo’s infrastructure from the ground up. As part of the Cloud Services organization at Yahoo, we are part of a team building on-demand hosting, unified data access, storage, virtualization, monitoring and reliable computing platforms for the entire Yahoo network.

Linux is the foundation that powers hundreds of thousands of servers, virtual machines and workstations at Yahoo.

A Lot About You

We are looking for experienced Linux kernel experts (with or without active contributions to kernel.org) to help us build, optimize and support custom kernels for Yahoo’s Linux OS.

Don't be shy if you don't fit the bill exactly. No one does. That's what we're giving you the chance to become!

As a senior member of the Linux engineering team you will work closely with other development, quality and operations engineers, product managers, and architects to design, develop and deliver key components of our Linux platforms and services. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the quality and performance of the components developed are exceptional and meet the required SLAs. We are looking for people who thrive in a cross functional team on high profile, critical projects with high reliability and performance requirements.

If spending time in a server lab doesn’t scare you, if you think bugs are there to be squashed, and if you like the thought of influencing the way we do Linux at a company serving +800M users, then there might be no better place to spend your work days!

Your Day

· Building and optimizing the Linux kernel

· Ensuring the kernel runs flawlessly on our hardware

· Evaluating performance, and analyzing defects and problems

· Building our own kernels and maintaining the needed build infrastructure to do that

·  Being an active contributor to the Linux kernel, and upstreaming fixes to kernel.org

You Must Have

· MS or BS in engineering, computer science, math, physics, or other science, or equivalent practical experience

· 5-10+ years of kernel and hardware bring-up experience with in-depth knowledge of Linux kernel internals

· Excellent software development, debugging and testing skills in C   

· Hands-on experience in debugging complex system issues across the stack including kernel and drivers

· Solid knowledge of hardware architecture (specifically x86), BIOS and boot process

· Excellent knowledge of kernel builds and its related components (packaging and source control)

Apply Here

Starfire Industries is a growing R&D company located on the Research Park at the University of Illinois. We currently have 12 employees.

Starfire’s core competency is plasma engineering, where we are currently developing advanced plasma technologies with application to nuclear fusion, industrial processing, neutron radiography and power electronics for plasma applications. Related fields of work include neutron generators, compact accelerators, ion beam and radiation transport modeling, plasma modeling, nuclear measurement techniques, pulsed & RF power and control systems.

As a small company, our employees work on a variety of projects and typically have multiple responsibilities based on the person’s role and prior experience.

We are hiring for scale up in the following areas:

• Neutron generator development and manufacturing
• Plasma sources and coating technologies

Product Development Engineer

BS/MS in Engineering with 5+ years experience

Desired attributes:

• Experience in Mechanical, Electrical or System design
• Manufacturing/production experience
• Project tracking and/or resource management
• Comfortable in lab environment
• Excellent communication skills

Applicants must be eligible to obtain security clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status).

To apply visit starfireindustries.com/careers or email your resume to hr@starfireindustries.com.

Starfire Industries is a growing R&D company located on the Research Park at the University of Illinois. We currently have 12 employees.

Starfire’s core competency is plasma engineering, where we are currently developing advanced plasma technologies with application to nuclear fusion, industrial processing, neutron radiography and power electronics for plasma applications. Related fields of work include neutron generators, compact accelerators, ion beam and radiation transport modeling, plasma modeling, nuclear measurement techniques, pulsed & RF power and control systems.

As a small company, our employees work on a variety of projects and typically have multiple responsibilities based on the person’s role and prior experience.

We are hiring for scale up in the following areas:

• Neutron generator development and manufacturing
• Plasma sources and coating technologies

Electrical Design Engineer

BS/MS and 5+ years experience preferred

Skills/training in some of the following areas desired:

• Circuit modeling, design, layout, and testing
• EM modeling/testing of RF/microwave components
• Pulsed power
• Power electronics
• Control systems

Applicants must be eligible to obtain security clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status).

To apply visit starfireindustries.com/careers or email your resume to hr@starfireindustries.com.

Description of Duties and Responsibilities:

John Deere is looking for iOS Mobile App Developer Interns to work in our Enterprise UX (User Experience) team. The ideal candidate has a passion for design and development of iOS apps, especially coding elegant and innovative solutions. You must be able to take a design vision, execute the development of it, and in the process, make it better!

Students must be current or recent graduates from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

This position will be located in Champaign at our facility located in the UIUC Research Park (summer internship and/or during the school year). Mac computer will be provided for work.

Responsibilities:

·         Work with graphic designers and user experience professionals to brainstorm app concepts

·         Develop native iOS applications

·         Quickly identify bugs and fix them

Desired Qualifications of Applicants:

Skills (must have)

·         Native iPhone/iPad development (Objective-C, Cocoa touch)

·         Ability to work with graphic designers to implement their vision

·         Strong working knowledge of Xcode

·         Strong working knowledge of iOS design patterns

To apply please send your resume to Eric Crawford at CrawfordEricS@JohnDeere.com

Post Date: 03/11/2015

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 user-centered and small workgroup small application projects that will be utilized throughout the company
• Developing small programs and components that will be used to solve problems in the R&D area

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
• Creative problem solver with ability to understand larger picture but who will focus on details
• Passion for design and great user experiences
• Familiarity with user research and usability testing methodologies to prioritize user needs to drive design priorities
• Ability to design and deliver clean and usable user interface prototypes for desktop

Preferred Skills: 

• Willingness to learn Pipeline Pilot (a RAD platform)
• JavaScript/JQuery
• Web development
• Familiarity with databases

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the summer of 2015 with an option to continue through the 2015-2016 school 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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