About the Team

Yahoo is looking for engineers to join the Yahoo Hadoop team. The team has openings in Champaign IL. In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Big Data stack utilizing Hadoop for Batch, Storm for real time, and Spark for Iterative. 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 hundred nodes, to over 30,000 in the past few years. We have over 400,000 cores that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 25 clusters running a mix of Hadoop, Storm, and Spark.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help build a highly scalable and robust next generation Big Data stack to power Yahoo's data processing needs. The qualified engineer would work on one or more of the following open source projects: Hadoop Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Storm, or Spark.

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, Storm, or Spark and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities:

• Help Yahoo design the next generation cloud
• Understand all aspects of Yahoo's Big Data Stack (Hadoop, Storm, Spark) and learn select components in detail
• Be a leader in open source (Apache Software Foundation) projects
• Design massively distributed technology and develop leading edge cloud computing software
• Work closely with service engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting-edge solutions that allow Yahoo to answer today's most challenging big data questions.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Strong in Java or C++
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Experience with one or more of the following: Hadoop Core, Pig, Hive, Hcat, Oozie, Hbase, Spark, or Storm
• Experience with large distributed data and systems
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques
• Knowledge of database internals and query optimization

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

We believe Yahoo is the best place to work in Champaign.  We are looking for someone who is both great at leading smart people and has strong technical skills.

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.

Yahoo Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

We believe Yahoo is the best place to work in Champaign.

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 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

Privacy Engineering Job Descriptions

Privacy Engineer, iOS and mobile libraries

Yahoo is the world’s biggest startup! And we’re looking for iOS Engineers.

The Privacy Engineering group is building usable end-to-end encryption into Yahoo communication products. Our goal: Let users encrypt their messages under keys that only they -- and not Yahoo -- control.

We are hiring mobile engineers to protect the privacy of hundreds of millions of users around the world. No background in cryptography require. But a passion for protecting users is.

Our team structure is unique: we’re a small group that is focused on making users’ messages private as quickly as possible. You’ll be responsible for coordinating with product “pods” that are focused on single applications, but will work on code that cuts across multiple products.

Our mobile engineers build Android and iOS applications. Some mobile engineers are at Yahoo as interns or as their first job; others have 10 years of experience or more. They are all strong programmers and strong computer scientists. They have usually been involved in mobile applications before joining Yahoo, but their backgrounds are quite varied. Most of them have at least a BS in computer science or engineering.

Our team is moving fast. Really fast. Let’s make this happen!

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• Programming experience in Swift or Objective C, as well as C or C++11

• Experience in mobile application development

Preferred Qualifications  

• Good taste in apps

• Familiarity with ARMv8 assembler

• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development and iOS UI frameworks

• Very strong competencies in data structures (tree, tries, etc.), algorithms, and software design optimized for embedded systems

• Familiarity with writing secure software

Apply online Here

Company Name: AbbVie

Category: Patent Search Specialist

Position Title: Patent Search

Status: Undergraduate or 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:

• Conduct literature search for projects including publications, patents, etc.
• Review and summarize product and service specifications to develop and validate relevant patent search parameters.
• Proficiently utilize patent databases and related reporting tools for searching patent publications and evaluate/modify the relevance and quality of reports generated by such reporting tools.

• Draft concise summaries of patents and pending patent applications

Qualifications: 

• Must be registered as a full-time student at the University of Illinois
• 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
• 10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience in evaluating technical literature in the area of subject matter expertise.
• Strength in evaluation and developing a search methodology and results relating to highly technical subject matter and patent claims.
• Strong time management skills and dependable in completing quality projects against deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the summer semester with an option to continue into the Fall and Spring 2015/2016. 

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com

Have you ever thought you’d like to write code to simulate Rockets? Aircraft? Explosions? Advanced battery performance? That’s what we do at Illinois Rocstar! Producing tools, interfaces, and systems to run on the most advanced high performance computing platforms in the world, we are all about making High Performance Computational Science and Engineering better and easier to use. To learn more about us and two of our current open-source projects, see:

http://www.illinoisrocstar.com                               http://openmultiphysics.org                                     http://rocstar.org

The Job

In this permanent, full-time position, you’ll be working alongside a great team of computationally-savvy engineers and scientists using our custom agile development process and environment. You’ll be involved in multiple projects; never bored, always something new to work on. Everyone on the team works the entire process – planning, programming, testing, documenting, deploying – you’ll be part of the big picture. This position focuses the most attention on the programming aspect of the process.

Requirements

• You must be a reasonably accomplished C++ programmer with a B.S. Degree and 2+ years of directly applicable programming experience writing code on commercial-level projects. Knowledge and ability to write complex code using C++ classes and templates is required.
• You must be comfortable working in a Linux development environment.
• You must be a U.S. Citizen or current Permanent Resident (most of our contracts require that).
• Good communication/writing/presentation skills.
• You must be willing to live in/relocate to Champaign, IL.

Nice-to-Haves, But Not Required (in approximate order of importance)

• Knowledge of Fortran, parallel programming (MPI), Build System Management (CMAKE, etc.)
• Science background (engineering, physics, chemistry, etc.). This would help with understanding the codes and working with our subject-matter-experts.
• M.S. with 2+ years of directly applicable programming experience
•  Interactive web application development/configuration experience.

Other Stuff

We offer a salary+benefit package competitive in the Champaign, IL area, including 401K with matching, Vacation, Holidays, and performance bonuses. Illinois Rocstar is located in the University of Illinois Research Park (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/), home to a wide variety of high-tech startups and multiple Fortune 500 research organizations. The tech environment is amazing, Champaign is one of the best small cities you’ll ever find to live in, and only a short drive to Chicago, Indianapolis, or St. Louis. Come start your career as a Rocstar!

To Apply

To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, and 2 slides describing your work on a significant programming project to careers@illinoisrocstar.com.

Description

You are submitting for general consideration only. Your qualifications will be reviewed and if you fit the current need, you will be contacted by a Talent Acquisition Professional.

Opportunities are part time occurring primarily during the school year, but can include the Summer semester as well. They could exist within any of our divisions and require any number of backgrounds.



Candidates will be sourced from this posting first.

Qualifications

MUST BE A UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA- CHAMPAIGN student.

Significant Work Activities and Conditions

N/A

Job Classification: Temporary Work

Job: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Primary Location: USA-Illinois-Champaign

Organization: ANRD-ResDev

Shift: To be determined

Travel: No

If you want to apply for this position, visit https://abbott.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=120000042E