This AXIS Research Center position will involve working on projects that will help insurance and reinsurance business users in both actuarial and underwriting better access and understand the data they work with. Candidates will use their programming and analytical skills to improve processes and templates. The analyst will be responsible for the development of solutions such as creating working prototypes for data acquisition, manipulation and analytics. This position also involves coordinating research projects with the University of the Illinois in conjunction with the Axis Research Center (ARC) mission.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:
• Create prototypes of current processes and analytics
• Create and maintain the reporting framework of Axis
• Coordinate student projects and other initiatives at the University of Illinois Champaign
• Work with industry financial data to create models of current performance
• Other duties as assigned

Required Education/Training & Experience:
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM major (Math, Economics, Accounting, Physics, Computer Science, etc.) (Masters Preferred)
• Background in computer programming (SQL Preferred)
• Strong analytical background

AXIS is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status.

Job Description:
The John Deere Technology Innovation Center, located at the Research Park on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, is seeking a qualified undergraduate or graduate student researcher to join our team. This role will consist of using agronomic sciences to develop business opportunities. The focus will be on developing innovative solutions for our customers through in-field testing of concepts.

Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
 -Agronomy/Crop Sciences
 -Crop Production
 -Plant Biology
 -Equipment Performance

What you will do:
 -Develop, organize, and maintain project databases
 -Plan and execute short term, in-field projects
 -Responsible for data collection of plant & soil characteristics
 -Communicate results and develop presentations within the research team and to engineering and product teams.
 -Engage in active research projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Educational/Experience Requirements:
 -Pursing undergraduate or graduate degree in an agronomic discipline, such as crop sciences, soil sciences, plant biology; training in crop production is a plus.
 -Experience with field work.
 -Able to work autonomously both outdoors and indoors.
 -Being able to advise management in clear language about the implications of their work for the organization
 -Driven to create examples to help management and team members better understand the work
 -Good communication skills and enthusiasm to learn new technologies.

Salary and Benefits:
Pay rate commensurate with experience.
This is a full-time summer position, part-time semester position.

About Us: More information about John Deere can be found at http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_US/corporate/our_company/our_company.page

Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, is in search of a creative individual to write, edit, and assist with developing technical marketing materials, including product, website, and video content; webinar and training materials; blogs and news articles; newsletters; emails; and other marketing collateral and corporate communication items.

We are seeking a Technical Content Writer who can demonstrate a knack for concept interpretation and presentation as well as possess efficient time-management capabilities. The Technical Content Writer will also need to be able to both follow instructions and handle projects independently. Experience with the Wolfram Language is helpful, and excellent writing and communication skills are a must. A technical background and prior experience are strongly preferred.

Please submit writing samples and resume in application.

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

Location: Champaign, IL

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Overview:
Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, has an exciting opportunity available for a Systems Command Administrator. Join the Systems Command team and work in a fast-paced, global, 24/7 environment.

The ideal candidate will be good at working in teams, comfortable speaking with customers, and enthusiastic about data visualization and organization in an innovative environment.

This position requires a strong understanding of Linux environments.
Systems Command is a rapidly growing, 24/7 global operation that capitalizes on Wolfram Research’s advances in data gathering and large-scale computing technologies.

Responsibilities:
• Monitor all production-level systems
• Escalate and triage problems when necessary
• Provide phone support for enterprise Private Cloud customers
• Maintain monitoring servers
• Help design and implement new monitoring tools
• Analyze existing infrastructure and find where there are gaps
• Perform daily system monitoring and maintenance, verifying the integrity and availability of hardware, server resources, systems, and key performance indicators
• Verify completion of scheduled jobs such as backups
• Evaluate and plan for future technical needs for strategic company and team goals
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:
• Linux experience
• Ability to communicate clearly with internal and external clients
• Web services experience
• Understanding of web technologies
• Experience with monitoring systems, e.g. Nagios or Munin
• Basic understanding of scripting languages
• Thrive in a team environment
• Very strong documentation skills
• Ability to work on 24/7 rotating schedule as needed
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail

Preferred Requirements:
• Understanding of the Wolfram Language
• Has implemented production monitoring system
• Has developed custom tools to provide more useful monitoring
• Experience with data visualization
• Experience with ticketing/project tracking systems

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

Location: Champaign, IL

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Overview:

Wolfram, makers of Mathematica and Wolfram|Alpha, are seeking motivated Web Developers to help build innovative and scalable web tools for various web technologies. In this position you will work closely with project managers, designers, and our user experience group to develop specifications and deploy new, interesting technologies on the web.

Responsibilities:

• Use various server side and client side web technologies to develop maintainable and testable code
• Configure and deploy on various Linux web server technologies
• Research and identify potential new technologies and architectures, and make recommendations to the team
• Implement, debug, and troubleshoot user interfaces with HTML/CSS/ and JavaScript
• Develop, debug, and troubleshoot web applications with Java Servlet Technology and PHP
• Configure, debug, and troubleshoot web server technologies such as Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTPD
• Be able to work with database technologies such as MySQL
• Work closely with a team and communicate with efficiency and accuracy
• Create and execute new features

Requirements:

• Must be experienced in web development with Java (or similar technologies), JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Must have experience with MySQL or similar relational database
• Must have experience with Linux administration
• Must have experience configuring and running Apache Tomcat or similar servlet containers
• Must be familiar with web standards and practices
• Must be familiar with creating and consuming REST Web Services
• Familiarity with Apache HTTPD web server is a plus
• Familiarity with PHP and Perl for web development is a plus
• Familiarity with Liferay is a plus
• Familiarity with working with scalable, clustered servers is a plus

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

Location: Champaign, IL

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

We are looking to hire a team of Systems Programmers to join our Global Technical Operations team. This is a new group within Wolfram Research responsible for designing, creating, supporting, maintaining, and enhancing our global business applications. As a Systems Programmer, you will work closely with other business operations groups within the company and be responsible for the following:

• Design, implementation, and ongoing operations of processes related to software development
• Working with other departments to gather business requirements to design, build, and/or enhance current applications
• Implementation and troubleshooting of programming changes and modifications
• Confirming program operations by conducting tests and modifying program sequences/code

Requirements:

• Experience with production workflow systems
• 2+ years of experience in C++, Java, or Mathematica/Wolfram Language required
• 2+ years of experience with Linux/Unix
• 2 or more years of experience in software development, software engineering, applications development, or application support
• Ability to work within a team environment
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field

Apply online at careers.wolfram.com.

Location: Champaign, IL

AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

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. 

Administrative Assistant (Position Code: 2016-AA)

Agrible has an immediate opening for an Administrative Assistant. The successful candidate will have at least 3 years’ experience in office administration. Strong computer knowledge, ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines is a must.

Responsibilities:

• Administrative assistance to personnel in office

• Corporate travel and meeting coordination

• Data entry, prepare letters, and reports as necessary

• Trade show planning assistance and coordinate print of marketing materials

• New hire onboarding, assist in benefit plan paperwork

• Create and maintain electronic and paper filing system

• Serve as the point person for maintenance, IT, shipping/receiving, supplies, equipment, ordering food, and errands

• Provide general support to visitors

• Event planning assistance

• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and prioritize work

• Attention to detail and problem solving skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong organizational and planning skills

• Comfortable learning new software

• Proficiency in MS Office

Agrible maintains a fast paced, dynamic, and fluid environment full of creativity and innovation. We are a growing company with a diverse set of professional backgrounds and pride ourselves on excellence. Salary and benefits will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

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. Location of Position: Champaign, IL

Agrible is an equal opportunity employer

EOE/AA

M/F/D/V

Yahoo! Hadoop Product Engineering team is searching for Engineers to join Yahoo to help

build, update, maintain, and monitor our Hadoop open source systems (e.g. Hadoop

Core, Hbase, Storm, Oozie, etc.). These systems consists of tens of thousands of

computers, petabytesof data, spread across multiple datacenters.  If you are

looking to work on large scale systems and to learn what BIG Data really means

then Yahoo! is the place for you!

RESPONSIBILITIES

    * Invent better ways to manage/automate the administration of new and existing

      clusters, via scripting and tools development

    * Consider, propose, and implement new methods for system deployment,

      monitoring, management and automation

    * Collaborate with cross-functional organizations (engineering, qa, site

      operations,and security) on new products/feature design and/or diagnosis

      of problems with the production systems

    * Real-time problem diagnosis/resolution on live systems

    * Monitor cluster health and performance, use critical thinking to find areas

      for improvement

    * Coordinate efforts with your peers in Bangalore

    * Document processes, grids, systems, and their associated configurations

    * Hardware and facility capacity planning, provisioning new resources

    * Implement and adhere to security policies and processes/controls

    * Participate in a group pager rotation for emergencies

REQUIREMENTS

    * Proven experience as a Unix systems engineer.

* Skilled in monitoring systems such as Nagios, Munin, Icinga, etc.

* Experience in using one or more configuration management systems (Chef/Puppet/Quattor)

    * Network skills in DNS, network stack, and subnets.

    * Experienced operating large installations of systems.

    * Strong shell scripting skills in one or more of Perl, Python, bash etc.

    * Experience designing large deployments integrating a variety of hardware

      and software technologies

    * Demonstrated team experience managing complex production server

      environments including direct administration of Unix systems

    * Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of explaining

      simple procedures in writing or verbally

    * Experience managing Apache Open Source projects Hadoop Core, Hbase, Storm, and Oozie

PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS

    * BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)

    * Minimum 6 years experience as a Unix systems engineer / systems administrator with

      at least 2 years in an Internet related business

    * Experience with LDAP and Kerberos a plus

    * 2+ years experience operating large installations of systems

    * Knowledge and work experience with Java, Cluster computing platforms like Hadoop,

      Condor, Torque, Maui / Moab, Sun Grid Engine

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

Front End Software Engineer

Champaign, IL

Design and build out our web and mobile UI, creating great user interfaces for customer-driven data analysis and visualization.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

• Become an expert with our front-end development stack, including AngularJS
• Own the implementation of many user facing features.  We have many functional areas to build out would like our developers to become the topical experts and fully own those areas.
• Work directly with the design team to create a compelling user experience that is easy to use, and fast to implement.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 3+ years of experience developing user-friendly web UIs in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Significant experience with a mainstream technology.  We use the technologies listed below, but they are not a requirement.
• Excellent code quality and attention to detail. Must be passionate about avoiding technical debt.
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Mobile development experience is beneficial
• Passion to do something new and different with your hard-earned software development skills

Technologies Used

AngularJS, CSS3, HTML5, AJAX, Pyramid, PostgreSQL

To apply please go to the Granular online job application here

PhotoniCare, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer located in Champaign, IL. Our mission is to improve child health and reduce healthcare costs by empowering physicians with better information. We are starting by developing technology that will change the standard of care for middle ear disease.

Summary: We are currently seeking a Director of Research and Development to lead product development for our first line of products.

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee development of complete integrated systems from alpha prototypes through commercialization.

• Manage a team of engineers to execute key goals related to product development.

• Work closely with outside partners to integrate key subsystems.

• Coordinate with quality systems manager to ensure proper design document control and testing.

• Coordinate with manufacturer and regulatory manager to ensure FDA-compliant development.

• Oversee and coordinate proposal submissions for research funding.

• Serve as primary contact between research staff and administration

Requirements:

• BS in Electrical, Optical, or Biomedical Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

• 3+ years experience in hardware product development (medical device preferred). • Experience integrating complex systems that combine optical, electrical, and software subsystems.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with GMP and working within a quality management system.

• Experience developing products in a regulated clinical environment.

This is a full-time position in Champaign, IL. PhotoniCare offers a fun and exciting work environment, as well as a competitive salary and benefits package. Unfamiliar with the Champaign-Urbana area? Check out the following website: http://www.yourewelcomecu.com

Please respond with resume and three (3) references to hr@photonicareinc.com.