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.

The Technical Services Analyst is responsible for providing computer, server, telephony, and building infrastructure support for end users and assisting IT staff with daily troubleshooting and maintenance. This individual will be primarily responsible for supporting employees in the Champaign office but will also act as a liaison and assist with Global IT projects in Chicago, London, New York and Singapore.

What you'll do: 

• Contribute to the development of automated and standardized technologies.
• Responsible for the overall health of the firm’s technology. Upgrade, troubleshoot, and resolve problems which impact the functionality and performance of these systems for all users.
• Employee addition and movement:
  • Responsible for all new hire work station set-up by obtaining requirements and will provide training on first day orientation.  
  • Serve as local contact for new hire IT questions.
  • Maintain inventory and establish set-ups for office visitors.
  • Assist with off-boarding procedures when necessary.
• Manage IT security access. Coordinate and work closely with Jump’s Security team.
• Serve as backup on all Building Management Systems impacting the Champaign Office.
• Support unified communications including telephony, Polycom, videoconferencing and Smart boards.
• Respond to telephone calls, emails and other requests from internal end users for technical support.
• Document, track and monitor problems in our internal tracking system to help identify system performance trends and patterns. Where possible, anticipate and respond to problems given knowledge of patterns and issues.
• Conduct deep dive analysis to determine root cause of technical issues.
• Build out technology requirements for customized specifications on firm’s technology resources such as desktop PCs, hardware, software, operating systems and printers.
• Responsible for procurement of new technology, vendor management and logistics coordination. Stay abreast of technology innovations relevant to areas of responsibility and take the lead in letting the appropriate parties know about changes that require Jump’s attention.
• Inventory: Responsible for maintaining and organizing adequate supplies of IT consumables.
• Author business process and standard operating procedure documentation.
• Actively contribute to team and support efforts and programs as needed. Partner and communicate regularly with Operations Director.
• Demonstrate regular and predictable attendance.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager, Operations Director or Chief Technology Officer.

What you'll need: 

• Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science, or a related field / equivalent practical experience.
• At least 1-2 years of related experience in a fast-paced, flat office environment required.
• Exposure to Windows directory services and administration preferred.
• Strong communication and customer service skills, and ability to pay attention to detail.
• A self-starter who adapts easily to a fast, ever-changing work environment.
• Ability to build computer workstations and other workstation systems.
• Experience with Windows 2008, Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8.1/10 Enterprise and Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge of enterprise deployment systems, such as SCCM, RIS, or comparable products.
• Experience with telecommunications, specifically Cisco VOIP phone systems.
• Intermediate UNIX/Linux skills.
• Experience with iPhones and the Apple software system a plus but not required.

Please submit your resume using our careers portal http://grnh.se/xe278y

Requirement:

• Software development experience with C++ (research projects and/or professional)
• Knowledge of MS Visual Studio, Qt, CUDA, OpenCV, OpenGL, OpenCL and device programming is highly appreciated

How:

• Apply/recommend by sending a resume to jobs@phioptics.com

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. 

Contractor Title

Freelance Editor       

Summary

Common Ground Publishing, an academic publisher based in Champaign, seeks a Freelance Editor in its Publishing Department. This  contract position will edit journal articles as needed.  Preference will be given to applicants with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in English or a related field and with previous editing experience.  Applicants should be prepared to take a proofreading test that covers grammar and knowledge of The Chicago Manual of Style.

How to apply: Applicants who are interested in applying for this position should send their cover letter and resume to hr-internal@commongroundpublishing.com.
 

Common Ground Publishing is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Through our groundbreaking software, academic conferences, and peer-reviewed journals and books, we provide the opportunity for all people to participate in and create collaborative knowledge and share that knowledge with the greater world. For more information about our company, please visit www.commongroundpublishing.com.

Contractor Title: Freelance Editor
Duration: Continuous
Hours: as needed to complete projects
Benefits Eligible: No, this is a contracted position (e.g., Independent Contractor)
 

Requirements:

·         Experience with copy-editing/proofreading

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills

·         Proficient in the notes and bibliography and author-date citation formats of The Chicago Manual of Style

·         Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and meet projected deadlines

Responsibilities:

·         For selected journal articles, Freelance Editor will correct spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors in the full paper, abstract and author biographies;

·         Revise for clarity, readability, logic, awkward word choice, and phrasing;

·         Check and correct typos and formatting inconsistencies;

·         Edit citations to confirm proper use of the sixteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style; and

·         Other projects assigned by the Director of Publishing.

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status.

Common Ground Publishing is looking for a Typesetting Intern for the summer. Located at the University of Illinois Research Park, we are an academic publishing company founded in 1984 that is committed to principals of access, participation, and equality. We hold 22 annual international and domestic conferences and publish 77 journal titles. Our traditional areas of strength include education, interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, arts and design, and science in social context. We are at the leading edge of the investigations of the critical questions of our time. Our areas of innovation include new media, food and urban studies, aging, sustainability, and climate change.

Our paid summer typesetting internship gives students an opportunity to learn more about the publishing world and gain hands-on work experience.  

Requirements:

• Interest in academic publishing
• Attention to detail
• Experience with Microsoft Word
•  Excellent written and oral communication skills
•  Ability to learn the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition
• Ability to commit to 20+ hours a week

Responsibilities:

• Engaging with the typesetting process
• Utilizing plagiarism checking software

How to Apply:

Please send a résumé and cover letter to hr-internal@commongroundpublishing.com.

In your cover letter, please address why you are enthusiastic about academic publishing and what you hope to gain from this internship experience.

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status.

Common Ground Publishing is looking for a summer Marketing/Social Media Intern. Located at the University of Illinois Research Park, we are an academic publishing company founded in 1984 that is committed to principals of access, participation, and equality. We hold 22 annual international and domestic conferences and publish 77 journal titles. Our traditional areas of strength include education, interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, arts and design, and science in social context. We are at the leading edge of the investigations of the critical questions of our time. Our areas of innovation include new media, food and urban studies, aging, sustainability, and climate change.T

The internship requires a minimum of 20 hours per week, and the internship will start as soon as the intern can begin and conclude sometime in August .  This summer-long internship gives students an opportunity to learn more about marketing and the applications in the real business world. Interns would interact with multiple levels of the promotional process. 

Requirements:

• Interest in marketing, communication, or social media applications
• Awareness of Google Analytics and/or other methods of tracking patterns of user interaction with websites and e-newsletters
• Experience with Excel
• Ability to organize and interpret data related to internet usage
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to commit to 20+ hours a week 

Responsibilities:

•  Engaging with the marketing process
• Interacting in weekly lessons
•  Evaluating effectiveness of promotional activities and marketing campaigns
•  Assisting with creation of newsletters and other promotional materials
•  Assist with analysis of website traffic
•  Other tasks as assigned by the site supervisor

How to Apply:

Please send a résumé and cover letter to hr-internal@commongroundpublishing.com.

In your cover letter, please address why you are enthusiastic about marketing and what you hope to gain from this internship experience.

Akuna Capital's Champaign, IL office is seeking motivated Development Interns to join our growing technology team for a full-time summer internship.

Interns will work closely with full-time members of our Development team on our production data infrastructure stack. Projects within our data infrastructure span high-level Python-based analysis frameworks and libraries (NumPy, etc), to low-level C++ software that decodes exchange-specific languages and data structures, to data visualization in the browser (Python/Tornado backend, Python/Bokeh or  React/D3/Bootstrap frontend).

Within each of these projects, there is a need for interns with skills in algorithms, mathematical modelling, low-level CPU architecture and operating system knowledge (Linux!). Furthermore, Akuna encourages and teaches a culture of code reviews (even for code written by managers/senior developers), concise code, established design patterns / paradigms, and constant attention to performance.

In general, Akuna is a fast-paced and exciting place to work. All interns will be developing on important production data systems using industry leading open-source technology, and spend the summer honing their problem solving and engineering skills with a prominent Market Maker in US markets.

Technical skills / education that Akuna is looking for:

• Pursuing a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Physics or related field
• Graduating in 2017 or 2018
• Experienced with at least 1 major programming language (prefer C/C++/Python)
• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
• Ability to write concise and eloquent code
• Experienced with Linux

Other skills that will make an intern successful at Akuna:

• Detail oriented
• Communicates well with peers and team leads
• Passion / aspirations to excel in tech industry

Apply Here: http://grnh.se/ro261f  

Please note if you do not currently attend a university or college located in the United States, we will be unable to consider your application for an internship at this time.

Description

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

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

Innovation Intern - Financial Modeling:

Areas of Responsibility:

·       Develop financial models

·       Analyzing market segments

·       Cost/benefit analysis

·       Develop short-long range forecast for innovation prototypes (product/services)

·       Prepare presentation documents

·       Researching emerging trends

Qualifications:

·       Financial portfolio showcasing a mix of financial opportunities

·       Proficient excel and financial modeling

·       Proficient in using Power Point

·       Have a solid understanding of finance, analytics, forecasting, marketing analysis

·       The ability to translate quantitative data into strategic business form

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills

·       Experience or knowledge product development

·       Experience creating executive level presentations and financial data models

·       Independent self-starter with the ability to multi-task

·       Demonstrated ability to collaborate

·       Demonstrated ability in working iteratively

·       High level of comfort in receiving and applying feedback

·       Provide business partners with the financial impact of strategic opportunities and give recommendations on how to meet financial objectives
 

Requirements
• Bachelor degree in Business or equivalent; MBA
• Strong competency in relevant financial skills such as profitability analysis and expert financial analysis.
• Broad business knowledge and organizational awareness as well as an understanding of business profitability drivers.
• Proven analytic and quantitative decision making skills required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interface effectively with senior leadership.
• The ability to influence decision making processes without having specific authority.
• Must be technologically savvy in order to drive effective means of analyzing and reporting critical business information.

To apply, please email resume and any other relevant documents to Mandi.Shelmadine@Grainger.com as well as apply online to the Grainger link: http://tinyurl.com/InnovationIntern

Description

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

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

Innovation Intern – Business/Entrepreneurship:

Areas of Responsibility:

·       Develop financial models

·       Analyzing market segments

·       Cost/benefit analysis

·       Develop short-long range forecast for innovation prototypes (product/services)

·       Prepare presentation documents

·       Researching emerging trends

Qualifications:

·       Ability to analyze markets and business models

·       Proficient excel and financial modeling

·       Proficient in using Power Point

·       Proficient in customer centric design

·       Strong written and verbal communication skills

·       Experience or knowledge product development

·       Experience creating executive level presentations and financial data models

·       Independent self-starter with the ability to multi-task

·       Demonstrated ability to collaborate

·       Demonstrated ability in working iteratively

·       High level of comfort in receiving and applying feedback

Requirements
• Bachelor degree in Business or equivalent; MBA
• Strong competency in relevant customer centric design and product development
• Broad business knowledge and organizational awareness as well as an understanding of business profitability drivers
• Proven analytic and strategic decision making skills required. Entrepreneurial spirited with a knack to seek innovative opportunities

·  Ability to create a competitive advantage by identifying and interpreting the voice of the customer

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interface effectively with senior leadership
• The ability to influence decision making processes without having specific authority
• Must be technologically savvy in order to drive effective means of analyzing and reporting critical business information.

To apply, please email resume and any other relevant documents to Mandi.Shelmadine@Grainger.com as well as apply online to the Grainger link: http://tinyurl.com/InnovationIntern

Please send resume to resume-champaign@yahoo-inc.com

Yahoo is one of the premier destinations on the Internet. This means that we require massively scalable, distributed, high performance, and efficient software systems.  If you want to help solve complex software problems for systems like these, we are looking for you.

Yahoo’s Advertising & Data Systems team is one of the biggest online data & advertising programs in the world. It allows advertisers to reach the masses through Yahoo and partner networks. We are developing next generation technologies to enrich our advertiser and user experience through complex, scalable ad platforms, with ever growing and interesting challenges. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team in Champaign, Illinois where you will have the opportunity to help develop high speed advertising data solutions from data collection to large scale data manipulation to long term data storage and low-latency retrieval systems.

We are looking for software engineers at various experience levels to analyze requirements; investigate optimal software solutions; architect, design, implement and test those solutions; and support our globally deployed data collection and handling software.

All the engineers at our Champaign location share these characteristics:

• A solid Computer Science foundation in data structures and algorithms, object oriented programming, and modern software engineering practices from their achievement of obtaining a degree in CS or a similar engineering pursuit.  All of our engineers have undergraduate degrees while others have graduate degrees, including several with doctorates

• Experience working with Unix or Linux systems

• Excellent debugging and testing skills

• Excellent knowledge of technology and product trends including knowledge of what is happening in Open Source and in other parts of the software development industry

• The ability to work with large-scale distributed systems

• Solid written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent problem solving and multitasking skills

• Great team-working capabilities in an agile development environment

• The passion to build great products, work with great people and change the world

While the programming languages we use depend upon the specific domain requirements of each assignment, most of our engineers use languages such as Java, C++, Perl, Python, and Pig, an SQL-capable scripting language.

At the Champaign site we have open positions on several software development teams including those that do data collection and delivery, back-end data processing, database storage and retrieval, and front-end user interfaces, both web-oriented and programmatic.  The exact set of skills needed for each of these teams differs slightly.  Specifically, in addition to the required characteristics listed above, the ideal candidates for each of our teams would also have the following capabilities…

For the data collection and delivery team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    System performance analysis skills

·    Experience working with networking software such as HTTP, FTP, and TCP

For the back-end/data processing teams

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Python scripting language

·    Experience with Hadoop or other Cloud computing or distributed programming environments

·    The ability to work with data sets using standard SQL techniques

For the database team

·    The ability to use the Java programming language and the Perl scripting language

·    Experience with database programming including SQL languages

·    Knowledge of database systems including database maintenance and optimization techniques

For the front-end/user interface team

·    The ability to use modern front-end development languages like JavaScript and HTML5

·    Experience developing web browser interfaces to databases

·    Understanding of Application Programmatic interfaces to databases

If any of these describe you, then we have a career for you at our place.  Come see what we’re doing at Yahoo on the Silicon Prairie, in Champaign, Illinois.

John Deere Technology Innovation Center is looking for a Marketing Intern.

JDTIC is looking for a Marketing Intern to help us develop and execute a marketing plan for an exciting new mobile application that will shortly be released to both the iOS and Android App stores.  This is an intern position that will be located in the Research Park, will be filled through the University and is open to current UIUC students.

Your energy and passion for mobile technology will be critical as we try to get our product to go viral in the marketplace before the end of the summer. As an intern in our team, we will ask you to work with members of our team to develop marketing material; both traditional (posters, brochures, fliers, FAQ’s, etc…) as well as social media based (Facebook, Twitter, …). You will also be asked to help us identify target locations in which to focus our efforts.

We expect you to be proficient in the use of mobile technology, either iOS or Android but both would be better.  This is important because you will need to be comfortable using our product and explaining it to others in order to create the right marketing message.  We may also need you as a tester from time to time.

Obviously, we expect that you know how to use Microsoft Office products and have the ability to rapidly learn to use new tools. A driver's license is also required although having a car is not.

Please send your resume along with a note telling why this opportunity excites you to Howard Gerwin at gerwinhowardr@johndeere.com.

Contractor Title
Translation Specialist

Summary
Common Ground Publishing, an academic publisher, based in Champaign, seeks a Translation Specialist in its Publishing Department.  This contract position will translate selected journal articles or books from Spanish to English or from English to Spanish.  Preference will be given to applicants with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Translation and Interpreting or a related field and with previous translation experience. Applicants should be prepared to take a test that covers their knowledge of English and Spanish.

How to apply: Applicants who are interested in applying for this position should send their cover letter and resume to hr-internal@commongroundpublishing.com.

Common Ground Publishing is committed to building new kinds of knowledge communities, innovative in their media and forward thinking in their messages. Through our groundbreaking software, academic conferences, and peer-reviewed journals and books, we provide the opportunity for all people to participate in and create collaborative knowledge and share that knowledge with the greater world. For more information about our company, please visit www.commongroundpublishing.com.

Requirements:

• Certified in translation services
• Proficient knowledge of English and Spanish grammar
• Capable of providing a conceptual translation when working with idioms and colloquialisms, being careful to preserve the tone of the original
• Ability to work independently, handle multiple projects simultaneously, and meet expected deadlines
• Familiar with Microsoft Office Suite; comprehensive knowledge of Word

Responsibilities:

• Translate selected journal articles or books from Spanish to English or English to Spanish
• Correct minor spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors in journal articles, article abstracts, and books

*We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, disability status, protected veteran status.