Jump Labs is seeking graduate students with strong quantitative and programming skills to work on a research project mentored by experienced algorithmic traders and quant researchers from Jump Trading.

This project will focus on using Machine Learning techniques to learn temporal relationships for forecasting time series data, specifically focusing on the following:

• Deep Learning techniques for feature extraction
• Efficient distributed algorithms on large datasets on a computing cluster
• Techniques used recently in machine translation problems such as recurrent nets, LSTMs, and GRUs

This project will give you access to petabytes of proprietary financial market data and one of the largest supercomputers in the world. And there is a possibility of publishing some of your findings.

Requirements:

• Pursuing a PhD or Masters degree in ECE, CS, Applied Math, Statistics, Physics or related technical fields
• A good understanding of statistical modeling and machine learning, e.g. should be able to define and talk about most of these concepts: Generalized linear models, kernel methods, model selection, tree-based models, boosting, support vector machines, neural networks, deep learning, variable selection, unsupervised learning, cross-validation
• Hands-on experience working with large datasets 
• Ability to code / build models in Python (scikit-learn, theano), Matlab, R, Wekas 
• Strong C++ programming skill 
• Strong passion for research 
• Ability to communicate results clearly and concisely
• No background in finance required

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

Grainger is a global leading broad line supplier of facilities maintenance products serving businesses and institutions. Our 18,000 employees are driven to serve customers and the community in exceptional ways focusing on delivering the highest level of service. The Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide cost-saving solutions. Grainger's employees serve customers more than 115,000 times every day through multiple channels. As part of a high-performing team, you'll be able to develop your talents, and make a difference. Grainger is a Fortune 500 company and a perennial member of Fortune magazine's Most Admired Companies list

We are helping build the next generation of Industrial MRO products to sustain the leadership in the space.

Position Description – Part-Time Internship Position:

Supported by Grainger’s engineering team, the Electrical/mechanical Research Engineer will design and build a functional prototype that will be used as the basis for further research in the digitization of physical sensor systems, including the real-time analysis of system performance. Successful execution of the project can lead to additional projects spanning a broader set of industrial products.

The Research Development Engineer demonstrates strong expertise in 3 phase motors and gathers several parameters using very advanced sensors to gather data and display data in the graphical form as well as develop a decision making engine behind the web which can take action to a stimulus using different threshold for different sensor type.  

This position will work in Grainger’s Innovation Lab in the UIUC Research Park.  The duration of this phase 1 research work is approximately 8 weeks during the fall semester 2015 with opportunities for continued research work into phase 2 in spring semester 2016.

Tasks:

·         Will be working with 3 phase, 1 phase, and AC/DC motors, pumps, blowers etc. to measure temperature, vibration, current torque, voltage etc.

·         Will be working with different Grainger business units and suppliers to build a sensor interface to gather data from different devices and systems.

·         Should be able to pick the right kind of controller and sensors to different applications using motors, pump, and blower and should be able to take action on the parameter of heat and vibration of motor going higher than a threshold then need to shut down the motor or actuate a signal to the gathering network can pick that signal.

·         Building the interface generic in nature and should be able to adapter changing industrial sensing needs will be the key to research.

·         Working with different wireless technologies for help build the motor telemetry like ibeacon, zigbee, WIFI, 6LEWPAN, and mesh networks etc.

·         Building the cutting-edge remote sensing and monitoring system using machine to machine learning (M2M) for future generation.

·         Understanding different failure conditions and building metrics and ecosystem around it to mitigate the issues automatically.

·         Building sensors built-in or built-out of the sensing device.

Requirements:

• Active enrollment in Master’s program: Electrical, mechanical Engineering, or PHD in the same field.
• Experience with 1-3 phase AC/DC motors.
• Experience in frequency analysis in motor behavior to draw conclusions.
• Recording of dynamic operation of different electrical/mechanical devices.
• Experience with wireless sensor networks, and wireless communication protocols.
• Fluency in English, effective oral and written communication skills

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
 

W.W. Grainger, Inc. (NYSE: GWW), headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, is a Fortune 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927. While each customer has a unique facility to operate and a different problem to solve, its customers all share the same requirement: when they need one of Grainger’s products, they often need it right away. With more than 22,000 employees, the Grainger team works closely with customers to better understand their challenges and provide
cost-savings solutions. With 2012 sales of $9 billion, Grainger is a Fortune 500 Company, and is a perennial member of Fortune magazine’s Most Admired Companies List. As a leading distributor, Grainger’s success depends on an effective and growing supply chain and sourcing operation.

We are helping build the next generation of Industrial MRO products to sustain the leadership in the space.

Position Description – Part-Time Internship Position:

Research Development Engineer with strong expertise in software development and web application design which can gather data from sensors and display data in the graphical form as well as develop a decision making engine behind the web which can take action to a stimulus using different threshold for different sensor type.  Ideal candidates for this position will posess:

·         Strong software development engineering credentials

·         Hands-on experience working with web design and embedded systems

·         Familiarity with wireless technologies

·         Knowledge of embedded systems deployment in industrial environments is preferred

·         Experience with wireless technologies such as; ibeacon, zigbee, WIFI, 6LEWPAN, and mesh networks etc. is preferred

Supported by Grainger’s engineering team, the Computer Research Engineer will design and build a functional prototype that will be used as the basis for further research in the digitization of physical systems, including the real-time analysis of system performance. Successful execution of the project can lead to additional projects spanning a broader set of industrial products. The duration of this phase 1 research work is approximately 8 weeks during the fall semester 2015 with opportunities for continued research work into phase 2 in spring semester 2016.

This position will be based in Grainger’s Research Center in the UIUC Research Park.

Requirements:

• Actively enrolled towards Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or PHD in the same field.
• Experience with Linux operating systems and/or RTOS.
• Experience in Java and embedded C/C++ programming.
• Understanding of modern network architecture (e.g.SOA, REST), protocols (UDP, TCP/IP4/IP6) and communication frameworks (e.g. XMPP, MQTT).
• Experience with wireless sensor networks, and wireless communication protocols.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

Please complete our application process to the link below:

Who We Are:

The Illinois Applied Research Institute is the state's leader in performing translational R&D for commercial and government mission-driven organizations. Launched in late 2013, it is a joint initiative of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Engineering and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research that harnesses the considerable depth of creativity and scientific ability on the Illinois campus. The ARI provides the University of Illinois with a formalized conduit for collaborating on open, proprietary, or classified projects.                                   

Major Responsibilities:

·         Assemble, set-up, tune, and configure unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems.

·         Design, build, and install isolation mounts to carry various sensors on an UAV.

·         Develop and implement solutions that enable an onboard computer to interface with UAV flight control software.

·         Plan, design, write, and debug programs that provide control over data collection for various UAV sensors.

·         Assist with developing image processing requirements and solutions.

·         Assist with developing solutions for real-time wireless streaming of sensor data.

Qualifications: 

·         Current student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

·         Majoring in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or related technical discipline

·         Must be able to work at least 10 hours per week

·         Ability to program with Python

·         Ability to design, build, and configure hardware

Preferred Skills: 

·         Experience with Arduino or Raspberry Pi

·         Experience with camera APIs

·         Experience with quad copters

·         Knowledge of OOP (Python, C, C++, Java)

·         Knowledge of databases and database design

Note: The start date is ASAP. 

To apply: Submit your resume to Brent Trenhaile at btren@illinois.edu

Learn more about us at: www.appliedresearch.illinois.edu

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.

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 front-end software engineers at various experience levels

• 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
• 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 an 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.

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

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