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• 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

The Dow Chemical Company's Research and Development, Information Research organization has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a high performance computing intern. 

The Information Research (IR) group provides information technology and information management-based solutions to drive value and accelerate discovery in the R&D organizations throughout Dow. Information Research is focused on making Dow Research and Development the best at using information technology for a competitive advantage.

As a member of our HPC Expertise Center, you will work with a global team of system administrators, programmers, application support experts, and R&D partners in the design, implementation, ongoing operations and user support for high-end computing systems. Core responsibilities will include system administration, software maintenance, systems monitoring and troubleshooting for advanced systems and related infrastructure, and developer operations/system automation tasks. You will have the opportunity to work with a range of systems and a technology such as compute clusters, file systems, Network Information Service (NIS), high-speed interconnects, and database servers. You will be encouraged to stay abreast of market trends and to participate in architecting next generation HPC Infrastructure. You will also provide user support, documentation and consulting to help ensure the effective use of HPC resources by R&D partners.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences, and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings, and agriculture. In 2012, Dow had annual sales of approximately $57 billion and employed approximately 54,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 188 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com. 

System Administrator Responsibilities:

·       Manage User Accounts

·       Backup Procedures

·       System Installation in a cluster and standalone environment

·       Software Installs and Integration into Infrastructure

·       Upgrades and patches of Operating Systems and Applications

·       Systems Automation

·       Configuration of Samba (Windows interoperability suite) Shares

Seeking candidates with the any of the following:

·       CS or CE Major

·       Scripting expertise (BASH, Python, etc)

·       Knowledge of Linux File Permissions

·       Knowledge of NIS and NFS

·       Understand the concept of queuing and scheduling on a cluster

·       Understand the concept of parallel versus serial computing

·       Excellent Written and Oral Communication Skills

·       System Integration of High Performance Computing Technical Workflows

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Apply by sending your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

The Dow Chemical Company's Research and Development, Information Research organization has an exciting and challenging opportunity for an image analyst intern.  

The Information Research (IR) group provides information technology and information management-based solutions to drive value and accelerate discovery in the R&D organizations throughout Dow. Information Research is focused on making Dow Research and Development the best at using information technology for a competitive advantage.

This position is aligned to the Scientific Data Analysis Expertise Center.  Areas of focus will include software development, image processing algorithms and systems integration in Research & Development through the use of new and existing technologies.

As an intern in Dow R&D you will develop applications that accelerate discovery at The Dow Chemical Company. You will work as part of a team of programming experts who solve problems and build powerful new tools for researchers and R&D decision makers. You will collaborate with software architects, imaging experts and chemical researchers to develop software applications.

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company connects chemistry and innovation with the principles of sustainability to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, renewable energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's diversified industry-leading portfolio of specialty chemical, advanced materials, agrosciences, and plastics businesses delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in approximately 160 countries and in high growth sectors such as electronics, water, energy, coatings, and agriculture. In 2012, Dow had annual sales of approximately $57 billion and employed approximately 54,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 5,000 products are manufactured at 188 sites in 36 countries across the globe. References to "Dow" or the "Company" mean The Dow Chemical Company and its consolidated subsidiaries unless otherwise expressly noted. More information about Dow can be found at www.dow.com. 

Qualifications: 

• •U.S. Citizen or permanent resident

• •Pursuing a B.S. in EE, ME or CS

• •Excellent programming skills. 

• •Experience with Image Analysis and Signal Processing theory. Knowledge of the MATLAB programming language preferable.

• •Some Statistics background is a requirement. 

• •Experience with User Interface design and software engineering and design. Familiarity with data structures and algorithms as well as feature definition, design and feasibility

• •Familiarity of databases is a plus

• •Ability to translate technical specifications into working code, and solve complex problems with consideration of the end user experience

• •Excellent communication skills

• •Must be a team player - will work across geographic boundaries with project leadership, other Subject Matter Experts, Support Network, and client base.

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Apply by sending your resume to hr@platformstaffing.com

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

Agrible, Inc in Champaign, IL is seeking Front-end Developer to support ongoing and new Software products for the company. You will be involved in research and design, analysis, implementation, testing, and troubleshooting our predictive analytics software. We are looking for support by full stack Python programmers with focus on the front end. We need a driven developer that can translate designs into reality.

This Position is part-time or full-time and paid commensurate with experience.  Self-motivated graduate or undergraduate students seeking a challenge will be well met by this experience.  Agrible is a team of over 30, made up of agricultural engineers, developers, business people, and support team members who have a deep love of agriculture, as well as big data analysis.

Qualifications:

·       Python and Django experience

·       Development with Amazon Web Services or other cloud-based infrastructure

·       Practical rDBMS experience (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

·       Experience integrating web UI to databases

·       Understanding of Application Programmatic Interfaces to databases, particularly, Rest API

·       Use of HTML5, Javascript/ jQuery, JSON, AJAX, D3.js, and CSS

·       Mobile first responsive web design and UX experience

·       Knowledge of online mapping including map tiling, Open Layers 3, GeoDjango, spatially-enabled databases, Leaflet.js, etc.

·       Graduate or accomplished undergraduate student in Computer Science

·       Must be eligible to work in the United States

Plusses:

·       Graphic design and mobile first design experience

·       ASP.NET experience

Responsibilities include:

• General support of ongoing product development in our team. We maintain an “all hands on deck” philosophy, and expect all team members to step in and help whenever they see an opportunity

• Assemble and troubleshoot tools

• Conduct testing on new prototypes

• Document test results and draw conclusions to support lead engineers

• Other forms of support as neededa

• Champion mobile design through all of our products

Agrible is an equal opportunity employer

EOE/AA

M/F/D/V

Please send a resume and cover letter addressing your salary requirements and establishing your experience/qualifications for the criteria outlined above. Please submit these items to careers@agrible.com.

• 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 

Do you enjoy learning a protocol’s behavior from packet traces? And improving on it?
Do you enjoy working on industry leading products?
Do you want to work in a high pace, high impact and fun environment?    

We have the right job for you.

Riverbed's Steelhead product is an industry leading WAN Optimization Controller. At the heart of the product is a set of application protocol aware optimizations that work within the IETF standards to ensure correctness even while using aggressive heuristics to counteract WAN latency.

We are looking for candidates who like to work on cutting edge technology and solve tough problems.
Member of Technical Staff Full-time - Champaign, IL.

What you'll do:

Lead and develop new features for the product
Improve product performance
Contribute towards product design
Explore industry and academic research to apply new ideas
Support existing software bases

What you should have:

Demonstrated ability to lead development in small teams
Strong software design, development and debugging skills
Strong background in data structures and algorithms
Strong C++ and Python
Good understanding of system internals
Self-motivated with strong problem solving ability
Team player

What will help you further:

Experience with layer 7 protocols
Packet trace analysis
Asynchronous event model programming
Multi-threaded programming

We think the job would require an MS or higher degree in CS or EE. But we are open to candidates with the equivalent skills. We have a supportive environment with a very well equipped lab and custom written software tools to help you succeed.
We are a fun company with various perks for employees including game room with a PlayStation, ping pong table etc. to blow off steam. You can run OS X, Linux or Windows on your desktop/laptop – we don’t care, as long as it fits your style. It’s not surprising that we were voted one of the 2010 best places to work in the San Francisco Bay Area by the SF Business Times.

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) is a San Francisco-based company. We feature an attractive compensation package, 401(k) matching, and comprehensive benefits. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer, M/F/D/V/LGBT.

www.riverbed.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

Work with Senior GD Specialists to provide user-centered design solutions for websites and applications. Help create intuitive, cohesive end-to-end user experiences. The ideal candidate will be studying design, communications, information science, human factors, psychology or related field but most importantly, have a genuine interest in the end user.

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into simple, intuitive and elegant user interfaces
• Create site maps, user scenarios and navigation flows
• Perform rapid prototyping, low- to high-fidelity
• Conduct usability testing and user research activities

Qualifications

• Strong attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to easily adapt to changing priorities
• Visual design skills preferred

To be considered you must be:

• Registered as a full-time student (Undergraduate or Graduate) with a cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0
• Authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship
• Available 10-15 hours/week during academic year; 30-40 hours/week during summer semester

Skills

• Wireframing/prototyping tools such as Visio, Axure, OmniGraffle
• Design tools such as Photoshop or Illustrator
• MS Office Suite
• Understanding of HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript

Interns - Applications and Front-end Engineer

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.

About the Position

We are hiring software engineering interns to work with our Application Engineering team to maintain and improve the campaign management and data management applications used by our clients. This includes building new features through the entire web applications stack (Persistent storage to UI), using the latest front-end technologies, improving user-application interaction, scaling the storage layer, and keeping the existing systems running and responsive. Some technologies used include: Javascript, AngularJS, Java, Spring, Hibernate, relational and NoSQL databases, and Docker.

Interns work closely with the Engineering Team, Product Management, and the User Experience Team to help design our products. We practice 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 also involve in touching the 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 work closely with some of the best and brightest software engineers.

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.

Applicants may request a position for summer only, semester only, or both.

Location

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

The recently-opened Turn Innovation Center, located in the University of Illinois Research Park, is Turn’s first engineering office outside of the corporate headquarters and the only innovation center for the company.  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).

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive salary, social and technical events, free snacks and occasionally meals, and other benefits.

Application

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

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

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 are seeking an IT Support Intern to join our dynamic team at Akuna Capital. This person will own office support for the Champaign office as well as work closely with and receive mentorship and training on our proprietary systems from more senior members of the team in Chicago.

What you’ll do as an IT Support Intern:

·         Responsible for proper workstation functionality and support

·         Assist with proper network functionality and support 

·         Coordinate support work with remote IT staff to resolve issues

·         Responsible for software deployment on QA and production-level systems

·         Assist with configuration management activities and support software build automation environment

·         Monthly trips up to the Chicago office to work directly with the IT Support team (schedule dependent) 

Qualities that make great candidates:

·         Pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field

·         Available to work this summer and following school year 

·         Experience with system administration of Linux and Windows distributions

·         Experience with hardware and software installation, removal and/or upgrades

·         Experience with system monitoring and configuration management tools

·         Basic knowledge of networking protocols, routing and switching

·         Ability to generate scripts in Python, Perl and/or Bash

·         Experience with development build environments for C/C++, Python, and/or Windows projects a plus

·         Experience with Agile, Git, Jira, Makefiles/CMake and Jenkins a plus

To apply, please apply directly to our website here: http://grnh.se/y17al2

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

AbbVie is looking for a Design student to work with IT and Business teams as well as with other students at the Innovation Center to provide visual design solutions for a various print and electronic communications.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide visual design for simple websites, applications, newsletters, training materials and other communications
• Create icons, infographics, headers,
• Provide prototypes of design options
• Become knowledgeable about AbbVie’s brand standards and guidelines

Qualifications

• Enrollment in Art and Design program
• Conceptual thinker and problem solver
• Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design skills for various mediums
• Strong attention to detail
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to easily adapt to changing priorities
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

Skills

• Photoshop or Illustrator
• MS Office Suite

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.