Yahoo makes the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. By creating highly personalized experiences for our users, we keep people connected to what matters most to them, across devices and around the world. Yahoo’s businesses span across Search, Communications, Media and many other verticals.

A Little About Us

In this position, you will work on the Yahoo data processing infrastructure part of User Data and Analytics team in the University of Illinois Research Park in Champaign, Il. Our team structure encourages trust, learning from one another, having fun, and attracting people who are passionate about what they do. 

A Lot About You

If you are looking to launch your career, what better place than Yahoo. We are looking for great talented Software Developers that can contribute to the development of our exciting next-generation products. If you are excited about the lifecycle of a Big Data project - Architecture, Design, Coding, Testing, Launching, Monitoring and Automation, this is the place to be. We are looking for problem solvers, the capability to work independently as well as with a team, and the willingness to learn.

Your Day

• Design new Big Data systems/features, increasing performance, automating processes, forecasting loading, designing and implementing tools for large data set issue analysis and verification. Our environment runs within Yahoo’s Hadoop Grid using both Java Map/Reduce and PIG languages as well as shell scripting, Python, Java, and mobile application development. 
• Production support: troubleshoot, report, and prioritize operational issues with multiple Big Data production pipelines
• Performance Engineering: Investigating and comparing Big Data infrastructural changes for improved performance and data throughput
• Big Data Design Engineering: Work with development team to help them create highly reliable data applications
• Analyzing Big Data job performance and efficiency to meet our ongoing business demands
• Automation Engineering: Improve and promote operational scalability and standardization through statistics and machine learning
• Act as a liaison between the different tiered support teams for operability/site-up issue escalation and monitoring
• Actively pursuing or hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related major, with GPA of 3.5+ and strong record of academic achievement 
• Knowledge of software engineering: processes, tools(e.g.: programming proficiency in a language (Java, C++), methods
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Excellent team working capability
• Experience using UNIX/Linux systems a plus
• Experience with development in Java a plus 
• Knowledge of Big Data, Hadoop grid clustering technology a plus
• Prior experience in technical operations and additional exposure to tool/product development. Knowledge of SQL (MySQL, Oracle)
• Experience with building system and application level monitoring tools for large deployment are highly preferable
• Familiarity with monitoring applications like Nagios/Netcool/Moog
• Experience working in large-scale production deployments
• Ability to take on lead role on technical projects is a huge plus

You Must Have

• Actively pursuing or hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related major, with GPA of 3.5+ and strong record of academic achievement 
• Knowledge of software engineering: processes, tools(e.g.: programming proficiency in a language (Java, C++), methods
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed systems, and UNIX/Linux environments
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills
• Excellent team working capability
• Experience using UNIX/Linux systems a plus
• Experience with development in Java a plus 
• Knowledge of Big Data, Hadoop grid clustering technology a plus
• Prior experience in technical operations and additional exposure to tool/product development. Knowledge of SQL (MySQL, Oracle)
• Experience with building system and application level monitoring tools for large deployment are highly preferable
• Familiarity with monitoring applications like Nagios/Netcool/Moog
• Experience working in large-scale production deployments
• Ability to take on lead role on technical projects is a huge plus

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A Little About Us

The Yahoo CDN Engineering Group writes the code that runs Yahoo's internal content delivery network (CDN). We develop the open source Apache Traffic Server as well as internal solutions for content caching, edge security, traffic shaping and routing, load balancing and failover, and IPv6 translation.   Our code makes Yahoo fast and reliable!

A Lot About You

If you have experience building low-latency highly available services, distributed systems, storage, middleware, databases, file systems, content delivery networks, etc. in C++ on UNIX or Linux, we’d like to talk to you. We are looking for great software developers who: 1) Understand hashing and caching strategies and mechanisms, 2) Use agile development practices including unit tests, functional tests, continuous integration, and continuous deployment frameworks, and/or 3) Know additional languages such as Java, JavaScript (NodeJS), Go, Python, and Ruby. The ideal candidate has experience in several of the following areas:

• Have administered or developed systems that use Apache Traffic Server

• Have administration or development experience with other common web servers like Nginx, Squid, etc.

• Have designed, implemented and optimized algorithms to improve networking and edge datacenter and server selection

• Have analyzed and improved efficiency, scalability, stability, reliability, and performance of CDN infrastructure

• Have designed and developed tools for collecting and analyzing server data so as to help plan future design and expansion of the CDN infrastructure

• Have a solid understanding of large scale, widely distributed system performance, disk/memory tradeoffs, and caching

• Thrive in a cross functional team on high profile, critical projects with high reliability and performance requirements

Your Day

• Design key components of the system and for establishing consensus for your designs

• Implement such designs while guiding and mentoring the less experienced engineers who assist you

• Ensure that the quality and performance of the components developed are exceptional and meet the required SLAs

• Work closely with other members of the Engineering team, as well as members of the Testing and Operations teams to solve thorny issues

• Develop robust, scalable infrastructure platforms that are fundamental for many Yahoo use cases. As a result, you will get opportunities to interact with many Yahoo engineers.

• Interact closely with Yahoo's internal community of architects

• Take a prominent role in interacting with the Apache Traffic Server open source community.

You Must Have

• A Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with 7+ years of industry experience, a MS CS with 5+ years, or a PhD CS with 2+ years.

• Extensive industry experience writing C/C++ in a UNIX or Linux environment

About

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.

We’re changing the way the world thinks about online advertising and we are looking for talented engineers to join the Platform team and help us take it to the next level. Turn’s Platform team develops all distributed and big data systems and applications to efficiently run Turn’s online advertisement, data management, and analytics platforms.

Are you passionate about designing and building scaled, distributed services with low latency messaging and high availability/fault tolerance? Do you think processing 100 billion requests in under 10ms every day with just 800 servers is an interesting challenge? Are you ready to join a world-class, highly cooperative engineering team? If your answers are yes, then you are the person we’re looking for.

We are looking for Software Engineers to join the technical staff in our Platform Distributed Systems team. The engineers will contribute to our efforts in designing and implementing the critical distributed systems infrastructure that supports our ad delivery system. If you’re passionate about application performance, distributed systems, networking, and huge volumes of data and are interested in joining a world class engineering team you might well be the person we’re looking for. Qualified individuals will have a solid background in the fundamentals of computer science, and some background in distributed computing, high availability, large scale data processing, and performance monitoring and tuning.

Because we are a small team, your ability to communicate technical ideas effectively, in oral and written forms, and solve complex problems in a team environment will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Build distributed systems – work on improving and adding new functionality to Turn’s distributed systems backbone.
• Scale the ad network – work on tuning and optimizing the delivery of ads in a network with thousands concurrent events, unique data scalability challenges and advanced ad selection techniques
• Keep it running – help troubleshoot application operational issues.
• Learn and grow – learn from local experts and expand your skills and responsibilities
• Design and implement features evolving our online advertising and data management product offerings.
• Develop instrumentation/profiling tools and systems.

Qualifications

• Must be hard working, team oriented, bright, creative, cooperative, and an exceptional problem solver. And nice. We only have nice people.
• Must be able to quickly understand technical and business requirements and be able to translate into technical implementation
• Experience with Java, C++ or C# is a must.
• 0-3+ years of relevant experience
• A degree in Computer Science (preferred) or Electrical Engineering (BS) is a must.
• Some experience with distributed systems, advanced applications building, large scale data processing or application partitioning is a must for senior positions. Relevant classes and projects is a must for junior positions.
• Solid understanding and working knowledge of modern operating systems, networking, and/or scalability techniques.
• Proven skills in scalability analysis and performance monitoring and measuring techniques are a must for senior positions.
• Experience with Linux based operating systems is a plus.

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

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).

Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest located at Turn.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Application

Please apply on the Turn Career's website at: http://www.jsco.re/2if8

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

To Apply, visit Ameren.com/careers and refer to job ID #14268

Location: Research Park at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

At Ameren’s brand new Innovation Center, you will work in a fast paced, dynamic environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. The Innovation Intern position leads/assists challenging projects, or conducts research in areas of advanced technology that contributes toward the Company’s strategic investment in forward-thinking initiatives. Interns gain valuable work experience in various aspects of technology research & development within a large energy company.

Projects may include:

• Organizing and analyzing data to support various company segments.
• Developing algorithms and writing code to perform data analytics. 
• Experimenting with different software packages and visualization tools.
• Providing technical assistance to data projects within Company segments.
• Creating and delivering reports and presentations of project work and results.
• Mentoring team members and provide guidance on the above-referenced items

Qualifications

Education:

• Registered as a full-time student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Student must be able to work at least 10 hours per week.
• Will consider undergrads and graduate students in MBA, engineering, statistics, other related major based on experience and background.
• Completion of 40 college credit hours toward a Bachelor of Science degree required.
• A cumulative GPA of 2.8 required.

Experience:

• Proficient in data analytics and mathematics/statistics.
• Experience with organizing and analyzing large quantities of data.
• Technical writing/Documentation
• Knowledge of Python preferred,
• Experience with data analytics software and visualization tools preferred.

To Apply, visit Ameren.com/careers and refer to job ID #14268

Mobile App Developer Intern

To Apply, visit Ameren.com/careers and refer to job ID #14284

Location: Research Park at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Students must be registered as a student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to be considered for this position.

At Ameren’s new Innovation Center, you will work in a fast paced, dynamic environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. The Innovation Intern position leads/assists challenging projects, or conducts research in areas of advanced technology that contributes toward the Company’s strategic investment in forward-thinking initiatives. Interns gain valuable work experience in various aspects of technology research & development within a large energy company.

Key responsibilities include:

• Research and develop the latest mobile software technology as needed by specific business segments and directed by business needs.
• Assist in mobile software development and support by creating requirements, definition/specification for new applications, or enhancements to existing Company systems.
• Design specific software components to meet various business needs.
• Provide technical assistance to developmental projects within Company segments.
• Create and deliver reports and presentations of project work and results.
• Mentor team members and provide guidance on the above-referenced items

Qualifications

Education:

• Registered as a full-time student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Student must be able to work at least 10 hours per week.
• Will consider undergrads and graduate students in engineering, computer science, or other related major based on experience and background.
• Completion of 40 college credit hours toward a Bachelor of Science degree required.
• A cumulative GPA of 2.8 required.

Experience:

• Proficient in mobile application development. Experience with iOS platform preferred.
• Experience with building wireframes and prototype preferred. (iOS or Web)
• Technical writing/Documentation
• Preferred: Knowledge of JavaScript Frameworks, CSS and User Interface design. Experience integrating and creating middleware for mobile applications.  MBaaS experience preferred (example: Parse, Kinvey, or FeedHenry). Familiarity with agile development principles. Creating User Stories and Acceptance Criteria and Sprint planning. Experience with Unit testing frameworks and TDD (Test Drive Development).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

To Apply, visit Ameren.com/careers and refer to job ID #14284.

We belive 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

Well-qualified candidates have

• excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Unix, deployment, performance, debugging, refactoring, design patterns, and other programming practices.
• Familiar with frontend Single Page Applications (SPA) development or with frameworks such as Ember, React, or Angular.
• Familiar with building server side applications and tools using Node.js.

About Akuna

Akuna Capital is a fast-growing derivatives trading firm located in downtown Chicago that specializes in market-making and arbitrage.  Founded in 2011, Akuna has quickly expanded from a start-up to a successful leader on US options exchanges and has already begun international expansion. In July of 2013 Akuna opened a dedicated technology office in the Research Park of the University of Illinois. The office houses a blend of full-time developers and student interns working on Akuna’s mission-critical systems.  We’ve grown significantly from humble but determined beginnings and still proudly retain the spirit of a smaller, entrepreneurial start-up.

Job Description

We have an opportunity for a motivated developer to join our performance team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary options market-making trading platform. Your role will focus on high performance data parsing and how we transfer data to make it useable for the data analysts.

What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:

• Data collection, real time data parsing and data storage
• Implement high quality services
• Engage traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews
• Work on cross-functional teams
• Be mentored by Senior Developers to learn the trading system and domain
• Solve complex problems and troubleshoot issues

Qualities that make great candidates:

• 2-5 years of experience in developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and at least 2 years with C++11)
• Experience with databases and data storage (HDF5 and Elasticsearch preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
• Experience with concurrent programming (e.g. multi-threaded, reactor, etc.)
• Experience with multi-core programming paradigms
• Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
• Understanding concepts of networking (i.e. TCP, UDP, multicast)
• Capable of writing unit tests and functional tests
• Ability to break down large problems methodically
• Experience with Linux and Python

Please apply directly to our website: http://www.akunacapital.com/job-details/?jobid=80356&gh_src=

• Actively pursuing or hold a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or related major, Must have GPA of 3.5+ and strong record of academic achievement 

• Knowledge of software engineering: processes, tools (e.g.: programming proficiency in a language (Java, C++), methods

• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts, large-scale software architecture, networking and distributed computing systems

• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving, multi-tasking skills

• Excellent team working capability

• Experience using UNIX/Linux systems a plus

• Experience with development in Java a plus 

• Knowledge of Big Data, Hadoop grid clustering technology a plus

• Familiarity with monitoring applications like Nagios/Netcool/Moog

• Experience working in large-scale production deployments is a plus ( Chef, screwdriver)

• Ability to take on lead role on technical projects is a huge plus

• Experience with UI development, nodeJS is a plus

Graduate Hourly, John Deere, Champaign

This position is for up to 20 hours per week, with a minimum of 15 hours per week, starting August 24, 2015.  Selected undergraduate students who can meet the 15-20 hours requirement will be considered as well.

Support engineers at John Deere Technology Innovation Center in the Champaign Research Park (south end of campus) by researching companies, technology, and business issues.  As a member of the Partnering for Innovation team, your research will guide the decision making of engineers worldwide, finding companies, professors, and universities to work with in jointly developing new technologies, finding patent out-licensing opportunities, and identifying new suppliers.  Every research project completed has real-world implications within the company, providing actual research experience in a corporate environment.

Requirements:

·         An interest in business or technology research (or both), competitive intelligence, intellectual property issues, or data mining

·         Ability to quickly learn about business or technology subjects that you are unfamiliar with, and apply that knowledge to research problems

·         Strong oral and written skills, including presentation skills

·         MS Office software, including PowerPoint

Although not required, it is helpful to have one or more of the following:

·         Relevant coursework, such as:

o   GSLIS:

§  Searching Online Information Systems

§  Government Information

§  Business Information

§  Legal Resources

§  Applied Business Research

§  Business & Government

§  Information Consulting

o   Any classes in the MS Tech curriculum

o   Applicable classes in Agricultural Economics

·         A professional or academic background in business

·         A professional or academic background in technology

·         Experience with patent searching and intellectual property issues

·         Experience using business databases (OneSource, LexisNexis, ABI/Inform, etc.)

·         Experience using science and technology databases (Engineering Village, ASABE, IEEE, etc.)

·         Government regulatory research experience

·         A second language, especially Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, or German

·         Knowledge of farming, agricultural issues, construction equipment, or other off-highway equipment

·         Familiarity with internationally accepted technology standards (IEEE, ISO, ANSI, etc.)

Please forward all resumes and letters of interest to:

Derek D. Riddle

Senior Business Information Analyst

John Deere Technology Innovation Center

2021 South First Street, Suite 101

Champaign, IL  61820

+1 (217) 693-6941

RiddleDerekD2@JohnDeere.com