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Software Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
mkilleen@jumptrading.com
Description: 

The Jump Labs office of Jump Trading opened in the U of I Research Park in 2015 in order to create epicenters for excellence in machine learning and high performance computing for applications to financial trading technology. We sponsor ongoing collaborative research projects with faculty and students, invest venture capital, and enhance the university curriculum by providing challenging real-world problems, novel data, powerful computing grid resources, and world-class mentorship.

Jump Trading has been at the forefront of algorithmic trading since its founding 15 years ago. We pride ourselves on being an industry leader that quietly sets the standard for sophisticated trading strategies. With a strong track record of success through all market conditions, the firm has grown to over 500 people with offices located in Chicago, New York, London, Singapore and Champaign.

We have opening for a senior software engineer at Jump Labs in Champaign. Primary responsibilities will be software design and development on software projects at Jump Labs, including our in-house bitcoin trading platform. Additional responsibilities include teaching/mentoring undergraduate and graduate student interns and interfacing with software development teams at other offices of Jump Trading.

Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Jump Labs team on large-scale, real-time distributed systems software. Contribute to system designs, develop complex algorithms, and implement quality, efficient software in a broad range of areas including: network communications, numerical methods, trading engines, data visualization, parallel programming and machine learning.
  • Actively participate in the development of the Jump Labs’ bitcoin trading platform.
  • Demonstrate and teach programming skills and software development processes to undergraduate and graduate students.
  • Help identify and manage projects for high-caliber students at a range of experience levels.
  • Reach out to software and R&D teams at other Jump Trading offices to identify potential Jump Labs projects.
  • Help build relationships with University of Illinois faculty and researchers who are focused on emerging technologies in the areas of low latency, high performance computing and data science.
  • Proactively communicate updates to management and peers.

Desired skills and experience:

  • Proficient knowledge of C++ and Python
  • B.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
  • 3+ years of experience in software development
  • Desire to teach and mentor teams of college students
  • Strong communication skills

Additional beneficial skills and experience:

  • Understanding of large-scale, real-time, distributed computer systems
  • Expertise in one or more areas related to current and future Jump Labs projects:
    • finance and trading
    • machine learning
    • computational science and numerical methods
    • data visualization
    • parallel programming (multi-core, clusters, GPU)
    • network programming
    • user interface and web development
  • Experience developing software for Linux and Windows machines
  • Experience working in University of Illinois or Research Park

 Please apply directly to Jump's careers page


Software Engineer

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Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
mark.e.scott@raytheon.com
Description: 

Raytheon has exciting opportunities in growth areas with an immediate need for a Software Engineer to enhance capabilities of cyber products for security-conscious government & commercial customers at the Champaign, IL design center. The position will be responsible for developing & testing new product capabilities, software development/build tools, software test infrastructure & operational support for cross-domain products including Linux & Android based trusted access thin-client & mobile solutions.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter, working in a cohesive team environment, willing to grow & learn using many software development & operational tools to test, debug & support software for secure Linux desktop environments, IT operation/enterprise management, IP networking/routing and remote/virtual desktop deployments.

Required Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Experience developing desktop and/or web applications in production environments.
  • Familiarity with software development in Linux/UNIX environments using a variety of programming and scripting languages including Python, C, C++, Java and/or bash.
  • Familiarity with TCP/IP networking & related protocols (such as HTTP, FTP, SSH, IPSEC, TLS/SSL, and SMTP)
  • Experience with version control technologies such as Subversion or GIT.

Preferred Skills:

  • Agile or Scrum development experience
  • Integrating disparate software systems using open standards.
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems.
  • Development experience in a distributed, parallel or clustered processing environment.
  • Experience with virtual desktop redisplay technologies such RDP, Citrix Receiver, VMware Horizon View or Virtual Bridges VERDE.
  • Experience with thin-client usage, management & development scenarios.
  • Experience with Cisco or Microsoft VoIP/unified-communications & multi-media technologies.

Apply online HERE

Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) is a leader in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; advanced cyber solutions; weather and environmental solutions; information-based solutions for law enforcement and homeland security; and training, logistics, engineering, product support, and operational support services and solutions for the mission support, homeland security, space, civil aviation, counter-proliferation and counter-terrorism markets. IIS, which operates at nearly 551 sites in 80 countries, is headquartered in Dulles, VA. and generated $6 billion in 2014 revenues. As a global business, our leaders must have the ability to understand, embrace and operate in a multicultural world -- both in the marketplace and in the workplace. We strive to hire individuals who reflect our communities and proactively embrace diversity and inclusion in order to advance our culture, develop our employee and leaders, and grow our marketshare with our clients." 

Raytheon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. 

Technical Solutions Engineer / Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
champaign-jobs@turn.com
Description: 

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

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

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

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

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

About Turn

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

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

Application

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

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

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Champaign

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
champaign-jobs@turn.com
Description: 

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.

DATA COLLECTION DEVELOPER

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Data/Analytics
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Part-Time
Contact Email: 
tim@ringr.com
Description: 

The Data Collection Developer will create a simple web-based signup portal and searchable database for athletes, actors, authors, artists, experts and other “people of interest.” New members will sign-up using their Twitter profile, and then complete their profiles as directed. The Data Collection Developer must have experience in implementing a user-facing web application and simple database.

The application should be developed in PHP, Node.js or similar (no IIS, .Net or Java please), backed by a MySQL, Amazon SimpleDB or DynamoDB database. Infrastructure support and some basic technical direction will be provided by the RINGR development team. 

Project timeframe: 2-4 weeks

Project pay: $18/hour

RINGR is a technology startup based in Champaign, Illinois which allows users to record a conversation with anyone, anywhere in the world, on any device, and have it sound like they’re in the same room and the same time. The platform is currently available for iOS and Android and, soon, on desktop.

Please provide your resume, any applicable examples of your work, and a brief cover letter describing why you would be a good fit for a start up such as RINGR. Email tim@ringr.com.

MARKETING INTERN

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Administrative & Support Services
Marketing, Social Media, PR
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
tim@ringr.com
Description: 

The Marketing Intern will be responsible for researching and contacting athletes, actors, authors, artists, experts and other “people of interest” who have interest in being interviewed on various broadcasts and podcasts. Potential interviewees will simply be directed to sign-up (for free) via our website and enter their Twitter log-in information.

The perfect candidate will be well-spoken and well-written, engaging, resourceful, and creative with a background in marketing and/or sales and a familiarity with social media. Interest in public-relations, radio and/or podcasting is a huge plus.

Pay: $14/hour

RINGR is a technology startup based in Champaign, Illinois which allows users to record a conversation with anyone, anywhere in the world, on any device, and have it sound like they’re in the same room and the same time. The platform is currently available for iOS and Android and, soon, on desktop. 

Please provide your resume, any applicable examples of your work, and a brief cover letter describing why you would be a good fit for a start up such as RINGR. Email tim@ringr.com.

U of I Research Park Network Programming Summer Intern

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Biotechnology
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
Jessica.Lander@cmegroup.com
Description: 

CME Group is looking for a Summer 2016 software intern at our U of I Research Park office to help our skunk works team rapidly prototype emerging technologies, including block chain and machine learning.

To apply please send your resume to: Jessica.Lander@cmegroup.com 

Principal Responsibilities:

  • Engineer a RAFT-based fault-tolerant system
  • Generate POC applications for CME Tech Labs
  • Explore block chain and machine learning technologies

Qualifications:

An ideal candidate is a diehard Illini with strong Java skills who has completed CS 225 (Data Structure and Software Principles) and CS 374 (Algorithms and Models of Comp), has experience with {git || subversion, maven || gradle, socket programming}, and has seen a piece of non-trivial software through to completion.  The supremely impressive one can craft a Restful API in her sleep on Unofficial, has taken artificial intelligence coursework and knows the AWS like it’s 127.0.0.1.  If this sounds like you, send us your resume… and expose your github link if you’ve got it!

Education: Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field. Preference for students finishing their junior year.

Location: Local to Champaign area

Why CME? 

CME Group is the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives exchanges. Our technology drives the global economy by providing leading investment banks, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms and individual traders a venue to manage risk. Software engineers at CME write and maintain ultra-low-latency electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, and front end trading interfaces, all central to CME’s business and the financial industry. CME Technology interns will gain unparalleled experience in electronic trading and financial technology.  We are looking for motivated and talented software engineers that want to help solve some of the most complex challenges in financial technology. 

Visual Designer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
User Experience/Graphic Design
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
masha.trenhaile@abbvie.com
Description: 

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

Sharepoint Technology Consulting

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
masha.trenhaile@abbvie.com
Description: 

Who We Are:

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

 

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science. 

 

Position Description

The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:

  • Working as part of the Technology Consulting Services team you will be trained in SharePoint as well other Collaboration technologies, to be able to gather functional requirements using standard FRS templates. 
  • Develop out of the box solutions to meet the requirements, using tools and templates to manage assignment schedule, as well as be involved in testing and later transitioning the support of the solution to the respective IT or business leads.

 

Qualifications: 

  • Must be registered as a full-time student
  • Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
  • Undergraduate and Graduate students
  • Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent
  • Must be authorized to work in the US on a permanent basis without requiring sponsorship
  • 12 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
  • 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
  • Junior or Senior in an Information Systems, Computer Sciences degree or similar degree
    • Has already or is planning to take Systems Analysis or Systems Design course as part of the degree program
  • Past experience working in a customer services role (i.e. Student or Faculty Computing labs)
  • Fluent in verbal and written communications
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word
  • Creative problem solver with ability to understand larger picture but who will focus on details

 

Preferred Skills: 

  • Completed Project Management coursework 

 

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

Master Software Engineer, Java & Java Script - 790397

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
Patrick.Mackay@capitalone.com
Description: 

Master Software Engineer, Java & Java Script-790397

 
To apply please go to the Capital One Online Job Application Here.
 

Description

Capital One is a diversified bank that offers a broad array of financial products and services to consumers, small business and commercial clients. Ranked #127 on the Fortune 500, Capital One is one of the nation’s top 10 banks and has one of the most widely recognized brands in America. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds, guided by our shared Values, come together to make Capital One a great company and a great place to work. 
 
Do you currently perform as technical lead on software development projects, but wish you had more responsibility in terms of overall delivery of software components? Are you looking to provide team or technical leadership in a large scale, data-driven environment? 
 
Capital One is seeking talented thinkers and master engineers who can envision next generation software innovations that will deliver a rich, engaging and unmatched customer experience. In this role, you will design and develop cutting-edge experiences for Capital One customers, using existing and emerging technology platforms. You will be responsible for documenting design decisions and developing software components while adhering to existing process guidelines. You will also act as mentor to junior developers, support QA during testing, and will have oversight during implementation into production. 
 
We deliver using Agile Scrum and are tightly integrated with our business analysis and operations teams. You will participate in detailed technical design, development and implementation of applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Working within an Agile environment, you will actively participate in story planning and detailed daily standups, while providing input for architectural design decisions, and developing code to meet story acceptance criteria. You will have the opportunity to continuously develop technical knowledge and skills on multiple platforms, and educate team members (including BSAs, Scrum Masters and Product Owners) on the capabilities and constraints of technologies. You will be an integral part in advancing the culture of technical excellence within Capital One, and creating experiences to delight millions of customers! 

 

Responsibilities: 

  • Primary responsibility will be to work on the development of the first Capital One open source product, Hygieia
  • Work as part of a dynamic team throughout the software development life cycle 
  • Collaborate with designers and analysts to implement enhancements or new applications 
  • Develop code to meet story acceptance criteria 
  • Conduct design and code review to ensure compliance with standards 
  • Estimate level of effort to develop code to meet acceptance criteria 
  • Ensure adherence to continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives
  • Maintain records to document program development and revisions 
  • Provide 3rd level support of software solution as needed 
  • Share best practices and improve processes
  • Use Angular.JS, Javascript, Java, Spring on a daily basis to work on Open Source projects
  • You would be helping build out Capital One's Open Source products and enhancing our current applications
Frequently used technologies: Java, JavaScript, AngularJS, Spring

 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 
  • High School Diploma, GED, equivalent certification, or military experience 
  • At least 5 years of experience in software development
  • At least 3 years Java experience
  • At least 3 years Java Script experience 
  • At least 2 years of experience with AngularJs 
Preferred Qualifications: 
  • Bachelors Degree in Computer Science 
  • Sun Certified Java Programmer 
  • 5+ years of experience in Application development 
  • 5+ years of experience in Web development 
  • 3+ years of experience in Senior Developer on IT Projects 
To apply please go to the Capital One Online Job Application Here.

 

C++ Developer (Performance Team)

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
elizabeth.gilbert@akunacapital.com
Description: 

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=

 

Lead Automation Developer-Test

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
ken.sarno@riverbed.com
Description: 
Job Overview:

Riverbed® is the leader in application performance infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed is trusted by the world’s best brands for the delivery of superior application performance for their globally connected enterprises.  Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global100.

Riverbed is a pre-IPO opportunity with over $1 billion in revenue headquartered in San Francisco with branch offices around the globe.  
 

We are looking for talented Software Development Engineers for our Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Team.  The Automation Team is creating a test automation ecosystem which uses some of the latest technologies and tools to implement a test framework for Riverbed. The Steelhead product development teams use our test automation framework to validate and verify their innovative features.  Your automation code and designs will enable Riverbed to meet our high quality standards, efficient and agile development goals and release deadlines.

 

We believe that delivering a quality product requires an investment in good software tools and automation, adds to the challenge of QA engineering, and we want to hire people who share this belief.

 
About this Position:

Responsibilities:

  • You should be able to compose your software designs using idiomatic python and implement them allowing for most versions of python.
  • You should be able to demonstrate your experience is using good design patterns to solve complex problems resulting in test framework python libraries that are highly usable and extensible.
  • You should feel comfortable in daily use of current development environment tools and common python test tools such as git, py.test, jenkins and pypi.
  • You should be able to demonstrate personal experience with common test deliverable requests from development teams, and how to achieve these through Test Automation. ie. Automated test design requirements, test configuration control and test reporting solutions.
  • You should have excellent troubleshooting and communication skills, as you will be required to work with a wide range of customers. You will interact with Steelhead development teams to understand their requirements for test automation and then be able to instruct and guide them in the design of their tests using the automation framework.
  • You will also need to be able to leverage good interpersonal communications and written documentation skills for generating guidelines, examples and tutorials to help train groups on the test framework.
  • You should be comfortable with both linux and Windows systems, with particular emphasis on methods for how to automate tasks on each type of system. ie. using ssh access, powershell access, scripting.
  • You should be familiar with typical approaches to Test Automation with different user interfaces system and the pros and cons for each method. Eg. CLI, REST and GUI.
  • You should be familiar with Scrum principals and workflow for delivering your work items and look forward to working as a developer on a motivated Scrum team that values; team empowerment, iterative delivery of working software, close customer collaboration and adaptability to change.

 

Bonus:

  • You should have a working understanding of network infrastructure components and networking protocols.
  • You should be familiar with virtualization technologies and comfortable with the setup and configuration of virtual systems. An understanding of working with KVM VMs with virsh / virtmanager would be helpful.
  • Familiar with open source / free tools for resource configuration, eg. salt, chef, puppet or ansible.
  • Familiar with open source / free tools for Windows automation, eg. autoit, Silk, Sikuli or Powershell DSC.
  • Familiar with browser automation tools like Selenium.
  • Familiar with low level network logging tools, eg. wireshark, tcpdump.
  • Familiar with the TestRail test management solution from Gurock.
 
About Riverbed:

The WAN Optimization Group 

The wide area network (WAN) is the foundation of a globally connected enterprise, enabling collaboration, communication, business productivity, and risk mitigation. When you join the WAN Optimization Group, you’ll have a hand in creating the products and solutions that are critical to everything organizations do over networks. You’ll work with top engineers to break the barriers that constrain businesses, and enable them to run faster and more efficiently. The group’s industry-leading products are built on our patented technology that accelerates applications through data, transport, and application streamlining. RiOS is the foundation of award-winning products, including SteelHeadTM CX, SteelHeadTM EX, SteelHeadTM SaaS, SteelCentralTM Controller for SteelHeadTM, and SteelHeadTM Interceptor.

 

Why Riverbed Technology?

If you are a high-achiever who wants to be part of a dynamically growing, billion dollar plus company, then you should look closely at Riverbed.  We offer the rewarding experience of working with the best minds in the industry that are changing the world through cutting edge technology and applications. The company has been recognized multiple years for attracting and retaining today’s top talent as a great place to work by Glassdoor, Fortune magazine’s 20 Great Workplaces in Tech and by numerous other publications.

 

Learn more at www.riverbed.com. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer.  M/F/D/V/LGBT.

 

*LI-SB1  

 

Apply Online athttps://careers-riverbed.icims.com/jobs/

 

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IT Support Intern

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Administrative & Support Services
Engineering
Status: 
Internship
Contact Email: 
Elizabeth.Gilbert@akunacapital.com
Description: 

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

The Daily Illini Highlights Research Park Growth

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Communications and Social Media Internship

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Category: 
Marketing, Social Media, PR
Status: 
Internship
Salary Range: 
$12.00/hour
Contact Email: 
dfcohen2@illinois.edu
Description: 

EnterpriseWorks & University of Illinois Research Park

Communication and Social Media Internship

 

Do you love finding and sharing fun content on social media? Do you enjoy working with different types of people? Do you thrive in a fast paced, team oriented atmosphere?

We Have:

A technology hub for corporate research and development operations.

An award-winning incubator that focuses on science and research-based startup companies commercializing technology from the University of Illinois. 

A multifaceted team of professionals and interns dedicated to helping our startups and corporations thrive in the Research Park.

An internship program that encourages professional development through project-based learning. 

You Have:

The student should be pursuing a degree in Communications, Advertising, Journalism, or a similar field of study

Strong command of social media tools (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube)

Understanding of internet and social media marketing best practices

Excellent written skills

Proofreading and editing experience

Ability to work on tight deadlines

Fearless attitude towards technology

You Might Also Have:

Experience with content management systems

Experience with Drupal and Wordpress

Basic understanding of HTML

Basic understanding of Photoshop

On our team you will have the opportunity to take the lead on meaningful, high-impact projects. You will collaborate and network with high-level executives and entrepreneurs alike as well as other interns from a diverse spectrum of disciplines. Past UIRP interns have gone on to work for companies like Infosys, Boeing, PwC, the Denver Broncos, and Capital One.

Does this sound like a job for you?  What are you waiting for?!

Submit your cover letter, resume and contact information for two references to Workforce Development Coordinator, Dana Cohen, at dfcohen2@illinois.edu .

We are looking for this position to start immediately for Spring Semester and continue through Summer pending on a successful performance review.


Compensation: Hourly wage will be $12-$14.00/hour, and will be paid by the University of Illinois.

Reporting: Position reports to the Associate Director.

Timing: Student is expected to work full-time in the summer, and approximately 10-15 hours per week during the academic year (if applicable).

For more information, please visit researchpark.illinois.edu

 

Product Development Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
hr@starfireindustries.com
Description: 

Product Development Engineer / Lean Manufacturing

Starfire Industries LLC is a leading manufacturer of the IMPULSETM pulsed power modules for thin-film deposition systems and nGenTM compact particle accelerators for neutron generation. We seek an experienced electrical or mechanical engineer with a passion for developing new product systems. Emphasis on lean manufacturing with a commitment to quality is desired to transition to full-scale manufacturing.

Starfire has a fast-paced, small-company atmosphere with an opportunity to work with an incredible team, contribute to multiple products in development/production and make an impact. We are located in Champaign, IL on the Research Park at the University of Illinois--and are expanding engineering and production space in 2016. We currently have 20 employees.

  • Job description
  • Ability to take ownership on key engineering development tasks for new product development, e.g. electrical or mechanical design
  • Assist engineering teams on customer requirements, design specifications, issue tracking, testing and validation, manufacturing flow and setup, quality control and reliability with QMS/ISO9001 documentation
  • Perform project management, coordination with outside consultants and development partners
  • Interface with testing laboratories, compliance and auditors for CE Mark/SEMI
  • Work on amazing products with disruptive or enabling capability
  • Required
  • B.S. in Engineering or related fields, M.S. preferred
  • Minimum of 6+ years’ post-college work experience
  • Experience in:
  • Mechanical, electrical or system design/product development
  • Project tracking and/or resource management
  • Comfortable in both R&D prototyping environment and production facility
  • Excellent communications skills
  • Desired
  • Experience in:
  • Lean manufacturing or “lean-thinking”
  • Materials requirements planning (MRP)
  • Comfortable with ISO9001 quality management system
  • Nuclear Engineering, plasmas, or power supplies

Applicants must be eligible to obtain security clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status).  To apply visit starfireindustries.com/careers or email your resume to hr@starfireindustries.com.

 

 

Technical Solutions Engineer / Sr. Technical Solutions Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
champaign-jobs@turn.com
Description: 

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

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

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

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

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

About Turn

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

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

Application

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

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

Software Engineer, Distributed Systems - Champaign

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Software & Web Development
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
champaign-jobs@turn.com
Description: 

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.

Master Data Engineer

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Company Name: 
Category: 
Engineering
Status: 
Full-Time
Contact Email: 
Patrick.MacKay@Capitalone.com
Description: 

Manager, Data Engineering

  • You yearn to be part of cutting edge, high profile projects and are motivated by delivering world-class solutions on an aggressive schedule

    Someone who is not intimidated by challenges, even thriving under pressure, is passionate about their craft, and hyper focused on delivering exceptional results

    Ability to work in a geographically decentralized organization

    You love learning new technologies and mentoring junior engineers

    It would be awesome if you have a robust portfolio on Github and / or open source contributions you are proud to share

    On a quest to transform the Data and analytic landscape, we are seeking bright, driven and talented individuals to lead the engineering of our Big Data powered platforms based on open source technologies, introduce new capabilities to a large population of data scientists, create and contribute cutting edge solutions to the Open source community. If you enjoy being part of an organization founded on the principals of Information based strategy (IBS), where Data and analytics is core part of how we do business, keep reading.

    Developing cutting edge analytic / Big Data technology takes the culmination and collaboration of bright, talented people and forward thinking leadership. We nurture a work environment where people with a variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds guided by our shared values come together to make us one of the '100 Best companies to work for" 

    Geek, Nerd, Tech-junkie. They're all pet names to us. If you share a passion for all things technology and are up for the challenge, come dare to innovate, disrupt and deliver.

    The Job:

    Alongside some of the saves techies in the industry, you will be responsible for leading a team of engineers to build a platform to deliver Big Data / Fast data powered analytics for Technology operations. 

    Responsibilities and expectations

    • Develop an engineering practice within the Big Data engineering team to support open-source data products and establish Capital One's brand within the open-source data-analytics community. 
    • Engineer a platform to be able to ingest machine data real-time, customizable real-time dashboards and predictive analytics capability to proactively detect / avert failures, present a unified view of the IT ecosystem.
    • Partner with peers within Technology operations to incorporate their use cases, develop prototypes and scale them to production use cases.
    • Serious bonus points awarded for integrating on-site solutions to cloud based offerings such as Amazon's AWS.
    • Develop scripts and glue code to integrate multiple software components
    • Lead the engineering function to design and deliver a IT analytics capability based on machine log data
    • Reliance on open source / emerging data technologies with an approach to building solutions in-house 

    Qualifications

    Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Mathematics or Statistics or Data Analysis

    At least 3 years of Java programming experience or at least 3 years of Javascript programming experience,

  • At least 1 year of Shell programming experience,

    At least 1 year of python programming experience,

    At least 1 year of experience with data streaming framework kafka or at least 1 year of experience with spring

    At least 1 year of experience with Spark or at least 1 year of experience with Storm

    Preferred Qualifications:

    1 year experience in working with patterns in machine log

    1 year of experience working with application logs

    1 year of experience in building what-if analysis models

    1 year of experience with Root cause analysis based on correlation of events along a timeline

    1 year experience with one of the Machine learning languages R+ strongO or Spark ML or scikit

    1 year experience with Agile development Methodology

    Primary Location United States-Illinois-Champaign-U of I Research Park (35009)

    Schedule Full-time

    Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time

  • Apply for this position at the following link: 

  • https://capitalone.taleo.net/careersection/usx/jobdetail.ftl?job=794613

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