Position Summary:

Abbott Nutrition is seeking a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student to support Regulatory Affairs on a project that aims to evaluate the regulatory environment for products intended for infants/children/individuals with inborn errors of metabolism or conditions that result in distinctive nutritional requirements that need to be met with formulated products.

Regulatory Affairs Intern will be responsible for:

• Working with global regulatory colleagues to collect regulatory information
• Organazing regulatory assessments
• Developing reports/spreadsheets/presentations

What We Offer to Our Student Employees:

• Part-time employment with Abbott at the UIUC Research Park during the academic year
• Minimum of 8-10 hr/week and maximum 19 hr per week
• Competitive hourly wage commensurate with year in school
• Flexible work schedule Monday to Saturday with 24/7 keycard office access
• Personally-assigned workstation in a modern style office space
• Valuable experience in the global healthcare industry

Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled as a student at UIUC
• Pursuing a graduate degree in Nutrition, Physical, or Bio-Science
• Ability to critically read and analyze large amounts of information
• Strong computer skills and in-depth experience using MS Office applications
• Effective communication and excellent verbal/written English language skills
• Self-motivated problem solver that can work collaboratively on a project

Start Date/Duration:

As soon as possible to August 1st.

Interested in Applying?

Candidates should complete an online application at www.abbott.com/careers.html and under "Search Jobs" use the keywords, "Abbott Research Park Part-Time Student Researcher". Additionally, candidates should send a copy of their resume or CV to abbottresearchpark@abbott.com, attention to Kati Daniel and Keith Garleb, including a subject line, with the Title and Job ID: "Regulatory Affairs Intern 100005".

We have an immediate opening for a Software Engineer Contractor position for a term of 4 months.

The contractor will work on an exciting energy optimization project that involves Android smartphones and the Cloud. The work is very hands-on and entails large amount of setting up test environment, performing testing, data analytics, etc.. Some programming is also expected. Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

- Selecting open-source software, such as database system, and setting up server environment, including communication with smartphones.

- Research, design, implementing, and testing server-smartphone communication.

- Design and implementation of machine learning / data analytics algorithms.

- Documenting design, implementation and test results.

The ideal candidate is one with the following skills/characteristics.

- Bachelor or above in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or other closely related fields.

- Experience in Cloud Computing, particularly data storage (database), data analytics.

- Experience in machine learning is strongly desired.

- Experience in networking protocols, particularly server-mobile device communication.

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

- Experience in or knowledge of energy consumption modeling/optimization.

- Knowledge of the Android platform.

- Programming skills in shell scripts, python, R, C/C++.

- Highly reliable and self-motivated; willingness to complete different kinds of tasks in a timely manner.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student to support the Abbott Nutrition Global Product Development team in conducting a literature review and summary of existing analytical methods for quantifying the oxidation of lipids in powder and liquid emulsion systems. This student will be responsible for developing a knowledge base of tools available and creating a white paper to communicate findings with team.

The Student Will Be Responsible For:

• Gathering data and conducting a literature review
• Creating a knowledge base of tools available to the technical team
• Communicating findings to management through a white paper

What We Offer To Our Student Employees:

• Part-time employment with Abbott at the UIUC Research Park during the academic year
• Minimum of 8-10 hr/week and maximum of 19 hr per week
• Competitive hourly wage commensurate with year in school
• Flexible work schedule Monday to Saturday with 24/7 keycard office access
• Personally-assigned workstation in a modern style office space
• Valuable experience in the global healthcare industry

Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled as a student at UIUC
• Pursuing a Graduate- MS, or PhD in Human Nutrition, Chemistry, Engineering or related field
• Must pay attention to detail and be familiar with many analytical methods
• Effective communicator and excellent verbal/written English language skills
• Student must pay attention to detail and have a strong ability to collaborate with a team

Start Date/Duration: Summer 2017

Application Deadline: May 6th, 2017

Interested in Applying?

Candidates should complete an online application at www.abbott.com/careers.html, and under "Search Jobs" use the keywords, "Abbott Research Park - Part-time Student Researcher". Additionally, candidates should send a copy of their resume or CV to abbottresearchpark@abbott.com, attention to Kati Daniel and Keith Garleb, including a subject line, with the Title and Job ID: "Oxidation Review R&D Intern 200026".

Design & Test Engineer

Starfire Industries LLC has an immediate opening for a Design & Test Engineer to support core research and development projects. The successful candidate will have a solid laboratory background and work closely with our research engineering team. Strong documentation skills, ability to work under pressure, effectively communicate results and meet deadlines are a must. Experience in microelectronics and/or machining and fabrication is a plus.

Starfire is an industry-defining manufacturer of IMPULSE^TM pulsed power modules for thin-film deposition systems and nGen^TM compact particle accelerators for neutron generation and imaging.  We are 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. Starfire is located in Champaign, IL on the Research Park at the University of Illinois, and recently expanded engineering and production space in 2016. As of May 2017, we have 34 employees.

Job Description

·         Vacuum system setup, plasma diagnostics, test fixture design, measurement, and data analysis

·         Prototype visualization, software and electrical implementation, system integration support

·         Support research and development, including, but not limited to: new idea generation, process development, concept reduction to practice, and productization of innovations

·         Contributing fabrication knowledge and experience team-wide

·         Maintain adequate documentation and communication (oral, written, electronic)

·         Other duties as assigned, including amendments for promotion and added responsibilities.

Required

·      B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering or related fields

·      Work experience

·      Experience in:

o  Data acquisition (e.g. LabVIEW or other)

o  Microelectronics

o  Comfortable working with/near radiation-producing equipment

o  Proven ability to multitask (e.g. handle projects in both R&D prototyping environment and production facility)

o  Excellent communications skills; Microsoft Office aptitude

Desired

·      2+ years’ post-college work experience

·      Experience in:

o  Microelectronics and signal processing

o  Vacuum systems, electronics and hardware

o  Plasmas, high-voltage and electrical safety

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.

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.

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.

Position Overview

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 availablity, 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.

Keywords: Distributed systems, high scalability, key/value store, replication, consistency, partitioning, messaging, coordination, (ZooKeeper), streaming, Java, Linux.

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

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits. Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest located at Turn.com.

The 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, plus many various opportunities to engage with the University and students. 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).

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Apply via email at champaign-jobs@turn.com or directly at: https://www.jsco.re/uh3o

No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Syngenta Digital Innovation Lab is looking for a talented Ontologist who is interested in helping us shape the use of new technologies within Syngenta. Syngenta's Digital Innovation Lab is responsible for interacting with global business units and offering innovative solutions to their challenges. This ontology internship will be responsible for helping map our diverse global data sets to a new data infrastructure consisting of multiple technologies and data types. 

Role Responsibilities 

• Develop models to store and organize biological/business concepts and relationships in a consistent and computable manner.
• Think critically about our technology and processes to propose and develop scalable and automated methods for expanding, testing and maintaining the knowledge base.
• Proficiency with database design and query languages (e.g. SQL)
• Proficiency with ontology design and classification
• Collaboration with a cross-functional internship and full-time team

 Qualifications

• Experience with data integration from disparate sources such as flat files, XML, Excel, relational databases, etc.
• Experience with data profiling and cleansing
• Proficiency with building ontological models using tools like Protégé or TopBraid
• Python or other script writing language a plus
• Strong understanding of SQL and other database related tech
• Strong understanding of Web Ontology Language (OWL) or Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• Knowledge of software development best practices, quality controls, testing techniques.
• Excellent critical and analytical thinking with strong attention to detail.
• Enthusiasm to learn new technologies, explore diverse content, and algorithms.

Applications

To apply, please submit your application here.

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

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

Required

• Minimum of Associate’s Degree in Electronics (or equivalent)
• Preferred 3+ years’ experience working with electronics systems
• Ability to read and interpret both electronic schematics and assembly level drawings
• Ability to work with AC, DC, analog and digital circuits and work with low, medium and high voltage circuits and proficiently use laboratory power supplies, oscilloscopes, meters, etc.

Desired

• Experience with data acquisition (e.g. LabVIEW or other)
• Experience with power electronics and load testing
• Familiarity with microcontrollers, FPGA and control systems
• Comfortable working with voltages above 24V

Applicants must be eligible to obtain security clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status). 

Job Description

• Perform PCB fabrication (SMT/TH), electronics wiring, assembly, integration and packaging.  Support production, customer service and RMA activities as required
• Test, calibrate, troubleshoot (to component level) and repair electronic subassemblies and final assemblies, documenting results of tests and repairs.
• Determine root cause of failures, working within production deadlines and deciding on the best method of repairing for in-house or field service returns.
• Complete tasks and resolve problems in a timely manner without deviation from accepted process.
• Maintain complete and accurate records of all work. Regularly provide data for formal reports and ISO documentation of all work.  Take initiative to communicate work progress with team members.
• Coordinate with documentation personnel to update manuals and procedures as required.

·        Electronics Production Technician

·        Starfire Industries LLC has an immediate opening for a production technician to build, test and package electronics systems on our production line.  The successful candidate will have background working with PCB fabrication, including surface-mount reflow and through-hole soldering techniques, and electronics component wiring and assembly.  Strong documentation skills, ability to work under pressure, effectively communicate results and meet deadlines is a must.

·        Starfire is a leading manufacturer of IMPULSE^TM pulsed power modules for thin-film deposition systems and nGen^TM compact particle accelerators for neutron generation and imaging.  We are 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.  Starfire is located in Champaign, IL on the Research Park at the University of Illinois, and recently expanded engineering and production space in 2016. We currently have 29 employees.

To apply visit starfireindustries.com/careers or email your resume to hr@starfireindustries.com

Required

·        Electrical Engineering or related field with education level commensurate with industrial work experience, e.g.:

o   Ph.D. with 2+ year’s industrial work

o   M.S. with 5+ years’ industrial work

o   B.S. with 10+ year’s industrial work

·        Solid background in either:

o   RF/Microwave Electromagnetic Simulation, Antenna Design & Fabrication

o   RF Circuit Design

o   High-Voltage Electronics & Switched-Mode Power Supply Design

·        Proven ability to multitask (e.g. handle projects in both R&D prototyping environment and production facility)

Desired

·        Experience with DC/DC and AC/DC power electronics and circuit design at kV levels, IGBT power conversion techniques, drivers, PWM control and power circuit modeling

·        RF/microwave circuit and antenna design experience and/or 3D electromagnetic simulation experience using COMSOL, CST Studio or HFSS

·        Experience with high power tube amplifiers and pulsed RF/microwave circuits

·        MCAD design experience to compliment ECAD background

·        Previous experience working in ISO 9001 environment or other regulated industry (Automotive, Aerospace, etc.)

·        Prior design or testing experience to meet UL, CAS, SEMI, IEC or CE standards

Applicants must be eligible to obtain security clearance (requires U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Resident status). 

Job Description

·        Lead key R&D efforts to support product and system development in ultra-compact particle accelerator and pulsed power systems

·        Provide guidance and technical management to an applied engineering team across concurrent projects at different stages of development from early R&D through late-stage prototyping

·        Develop research strategies, actively engage in both the laboratory and prototype design and production environment, and support testing and data analysis

·        Support the management team with technical reporting, resource allocation and communicating with our customers, suppliers and development partners

·        Engage with customers and end-users to better understand their requirements to enable our products to be safer, more effective and add long-term value

·        Communicate effectively (oral, written, electronic) including technical mentorship

·        Bring positive energy and enthusiasm to every challenge and inspire people to excel and build trust in each other

Applied Research Engineer

Starfire Industries LLC has an immediate opening for a research engineer to support applied R&D for our advanced particle accelerator and thin-film deposition technologies.  The successful candidate will have a proven multi-disciplinary background with strength in at least one of the following areas:

·        RF/Microwave Electromagnetic Simulation, Antenna/Cavity Design

·        High-Voltage Electronics & Switched-Mode Power Supply Design

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong documentation skills, ability to work under pressure, effectively communicate results, meet deadlines and demonstrate leadership within a diverse team.  Hands-on testing experience with microelectronics, power electronics, and digital/analog communications is a plus.

Starfire is an industry-defining manufacturer of IMPULSE^TM pulsed power modules for thin-film deposition systems and nGen^TM compact particle accelerators for neutron generation and imaging. We are 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. Starfire is located in Champaign, IL on the Research Park at the University of Illinois, and recently expanded engineering and production space in 2016. As of January 2017, we have 29 employees.

To apply visit starfireindustries.com/careers or email your resume to hr@starfireindustries.com

Have you ever thought that you’d like to write code to model something awesome? Like rockets? Aircraft? Explosions? Advanced battery performance? That’s what we do at Illinois Rocstar! Producing tools, interfaces, and systems to run on the most advanced high performance computing platforms in the world, we are all about making High Performance Computational Science and Engineering better and easier to use. To learn more about us and three of our current open-source projects, see:

http://www.illinoisrocstar.com                    http://github.com/IllinoisRocstar                             http://chemistryhub.org

The Job

In this permanent, full-time position, you’ll be working alongside a great team of computationally-savvy engineers and scientists using our custom agile development process and environment. You’ll be involved in multiple projects; you won’t be bored as there’s always something new to work on. Everyone on the team works the entire process: planning, programming, testing, documenting, and deploying. You’ll be part of the big picture. This position focuses the most attention on the programming aspect of the process.

Requirements

·         You must be an accomplished C/C++ programmer and have a B.S. or M.S degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other appropriate areas.

·         You must be a U.S. citizen or current U.S. permanent resident.

·         You must be comfortable working in a Linux development environment, compiling at the command line.

·         You must have good communication/writing/presentation skills.

·         You must be willing to live in/relocate to the Champaign, Illinois area.

Nice-to-Haves, But Not Required (in approximate order of importance)

·         Parallel programming experience (preferably MPI, but thread-based parallelism will be considered).

·         Science background in such fields as engineering, physics, math, chemistry, etc.

·         Linux and/or Linux cluster administration skills.

·         Knowledge of build system and configuration management (CMake, SVN, GitHub, etc.)

·         Experience with enterprise-level, web-oriented database systems.

 Other Stuff

We offer a competitive salary + benefits package, including 401K with company matching, vacation, holidays, subsidized health insurance, and performance bonuses. Salary commensurate with experience and skillset as applies to the position. Illinois Rocstar is located in the University of Illinois Research Park (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/), home to a wide variety of high-tech startups and multiple Fortune 500 research organizations. The tech environment is amazing (http://www.yourewelcomecu.com/); Champaign is one of the best small cities that you’ll ever find to live in (http://www.visitchampaigncounty.org/), and it’s only a short drive to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. Come join us as a Rocstar!

To Apply

To apply, please send your cover letter, resume, and github or website links describing your work on a significant programming project to careers@illinoisrocstar.com. 

Have you ever thought that you’d like to write code to model something awesome? Like rockets? Aircraft? Explosions? Advanced battery performance? That’s what we do at Illinois Rocstar! Producing tools, interfaces, and systems to run on the most advanced high performance computing platforms in the world, we are all about making High Performance Computational Science and Engineering better and easier to use. To learn more about us and three of our current open-source projects, see:

http://www.illinoisrocstar.com                   https://github.com/IllinoisRocstar                            http://chemistryhub.org

The Job

In this permanent, full-time position, you’ll be working alongside a great team of computationally-savvy engineers and scientists using our custom agile development process and environment. You’ll be focused on several web application projects including cloud delivery of scientific services both on the server and client sides. Everyone on the team works the entire process: planning, programming, testing, documenting, and deploying. You’ll be part of the big picture. This position focuses the most attention on the web programming aspect of the process.

Requirements

·         You must be an accomplished web backend/frontend web programmer (i.e., “Full Stack”) and have a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or a similar area, and several years of directly applicable professional programming experience writing code on commercial-level web application projects.

·         You must be a U.S. citizen or current U.S. permanent resident.

·         You must be comfortable working in a Linux development environment and administering web services and applications in Linux.

·         You must have good communication/writing/presentation skills.

·         You must be willing to live in/relocate to the Champaign, Illinois area.

Nice-to-Haves, But Not Required (in approximate order of importance)

·         Experience with enterprise-level, web-oriented database systems, WEBGL, and/or C++ programming.

·         Experience with web application functional and stress testing.

·         Linux and/or Linux cluster administration skills.

·         Science background in a field such as engineering, physics, math, chemistry, etc.

Benefits, etc.

We offer a competitive salary + benefits package, including 401K with company matching, vacation, holidays, subsidized health insurance, and performance bonuses. Salary commensurate with experience and skillset as applies to the position. Illinois Rocstar is located in the University of Illinois Research Park (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/), home to a wide variety of high-tech startups and multiple Fortune 500 research organizations. The tech environment is amazing (http://www.yourewelcomecu.com/); Champaign is one of the best small cities that you’ll ever find to live in (http://www.visitchampaigncounty.org/), and it’s only a short drive to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. Come join us as a Rocstar!

To Apply

To apply, please include your cover letter and resume, including reference to github code or websites you’ve built, and forward to careers@illinoisrocstar.com.

Have you ever thought that you’d like to write code to model something awesome? Like rockets? Aircraft? Explosions? Advanced battery performance? That’s what we do at Illinois Rocstar! Producing tools, interfaces, and systems to run on the most advanced high performance computing platforms in the world, we are all about making High Performance Computational Science and Engineering better and easier to use. To learn more about us and three of our current open-source projects, see:

http://www.illinoisrocstar.com                   https://github.com/IllinoisRocstar                            http://chemistryhub.org

The Job

In this permanent, full-time position, you’ll be working alongside a great team of computationally-savvy engineers and scientists using our custom agile development process and environment. You’ll be focused on several web application projects including cloud delivery of scientific services both on the server and client sides. Everyone on the team works the entire process: planning, programming, testing, documenting, and deploying. You’ll be part of the big picture. This position focuses the most attention on the web programming aspect of the process.

Requirements

·         You must have experience as a web backend/frontend web programmer (i.e., some portion of “Full Stack”) and have a B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or a similar area.

·         You must be a U.S. citizen or current U.S. permanent resident.

·         You must be comfortable working in a Linux development environment and administering web services and applications in Linux.

·         You must have good communication/writing/presentation skills.

·         You must be willing to live in/relocate to the Champaign, Illinois area.

Nice-to-Haves, But Not Required (in approximate order of importance)

·         Experience with enterprise-level, web-oriented database systems, WEBGL, and/or C++ programming.

·         Experience with web application functional and stress testing.

·         Linux and/or Linux cluster administration skills.

·         Science background in a field such as engineering, physics, math, chemistry, etc.

Benefits, etc.

We offer a competitive salary + benefits package, including 401K with company matching, vacation, holidays, subsidized health insurance, and performance bonuses. Salary commensurate with experience and skillset as applies to the position. Illinois Rocstar is located in the University of Illinois Research Park (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/), home to a wide variety of high-tech startups and multiple Fortune 500 research organizations. The tech environment is amazing (http://www.yourewelcomecu.com/); Champaign is one of the best small cities that you’ll ever find to live in (http://www.visitchampaigncounty.org/), and it’s only a short drive to Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. Come join us as a Rocstar!

To Apply

To apply, please include your cover letter and resume, including reference to github code or websites you’ve built, and forward to careers@illinoisrocstar.com. 

At CEB (Now Gartner) Data Innovation Center we hire the brightest and most talented people in the world? Are you looking to work on the most innovative projects and build technologies that change the world? At the CEB (Now Gartner) Data Innovation Center, you have the chance to build the future.

We are looking for some smart Data Scientists who can generate insights from our data. Join us this summer to get a chance at creating some of the most innovative solutions at our data innovation center.

The Data Science Intern with minimum will focus on mid-size to large projects for development of NLP and Machine learning solutions employing a working knowledge of SDLC, SCRUM, and Agile methodologies. The engineer will design, specify, and implement a state of the art natural language processing and machine learning for our next generation products. This position emphasizes a need for to conceptualize, design, and develop reusable NLP and ML models as well as very strong technical knowledge for implementing big data technologies. Additionally, the Data Science Intern will play a key role in requirements gathering, project documentation, application developments tasks and the translation of requirements for project teams both foreign and domestic.

Requirements

·         Demonstrable Experience in developing natural language processing models, corpus.

·         Experience with NLP tools such as NLTK, OpenNLP, Stanford CoreNLP and similar open source solutions

·         Experience with NLP tagging methods and techniques such as CCG, Penn TreeBank

·         Experience with multi-lingual (international) NLP processing and tagging

·         Experience with NLP applications such as tokenization, parsing, lemmatization, POS tagging techniques, Named Entity Recognition (NER) or Stanford NER (SNER)

·         Experience in Topic mining using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), keywords, n-grams,tf-idf vectors

·         Experience in Document Classification using different language models and similarity metrics like Word2Vec, KL-Divergence, Cosine Similarity .

·         Experience with developing NLP applications such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, text summary production

·         Experience with developing NLP tools using Machine learning, Statistical analysis, bag of words, parts of speech tagging

·         Ability to apply combinations of classifiers Naïve Bayes, Decision Tree, k-NN, Neural Networks and SVM.

·         Experience developing and applying machine learning using tools such as Python Scikit, R or similar languages

·         Experience in mining/analyzing vast data stores and uncovering insights.

·         Experience in building Recommendation Systems

·         Experience in writing clean, documented, modular, reusable code in Python

·         Experience in data wrangling and munging using Python libraries like Numpy, Pandas, BeautifulSoup, etc.

·         Experience in web development, JavaScript Framework and programming languages like Java, Scala, C++ is a plus

·         Experience with Big Data tools like Hadoop, Spark is a plus

·         Experience with Deep learning techniques like LSTM,RNN is a plus

Role Qualifications

·         Knowledge in Python and Java.

·         Writing high-performance, reliable and maintainable code.

·         Proficiency in Database SQL query development and data analysis             

·         Excellent oral and written communication skills

·         Critical thinking with excellent judgment and initiative

·         Self-motivator with great attention to detail and follow through

·         Proficiency with Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio

·         Proven analytical skills

·         Ability to work independently and in a team setting

·         Ability to excel in a fast paced environment

·         Very good listening and interpretation skills

Preferred Qualifications

·         Knowledge in Hadoop is a plus

·         Managing and deploying HBase

·         Good knowledge in back-end programming, specifically java, JS, Node.js and OOAD

·         Knowledge on SQL Server Management Studio, GitHub, and MongoDB.

Education and Experience:

·         Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree or PhD in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, or Engineering or, Statistics, or Mathematics, or related discipline.

May 14, 2017 — Job opening announcement: Development Engineer

We are looking for a full-time “full-stack” developer with experience in Java.  Additional experience or interest in the following is also positive but not necessary:

•       web-based software design with Javascript, CSS, React, SQL

•       cloud tools like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Github

•       machine code and assembly programming

•       robotics and/or embedded software

•       experience in manufacturing

•       user testing and UX design

•       movement practice such as sports, yoga, or dance

Most importantly, we are seeking an enthusiastic, independent learner and creative designer to work as a member of our team. The position is expected to start no sooner than June 2017 and no later than August 2017.  We require US citizenship for full-time hires; compensation will be in the form of salary and equity-based incentives.

Who we are: AE Machines is working to make automation accessible to a broad group of people and businesses.  The company was founded by two engineers, and we are looking to make key additions to our development team.  Our product is a web-based software platform that allows nontechnical users to set up simple automated systems. We are looking for engineers to scale up an initial proof-of-concept demo to an industrially-viable prototype in the space of small-batch manufacturing and collaborative robotics.

Our team: Our team consists of four employees, Amy, who is also a UIUC faculty member in the area of robotics, Eric, a CS and MBA grad, Craig, a physics PhD with years of experience, and Hunter, our UX designer and in-house artist. Amy and Eric are co-founders, and that’s one of the reasons we’re AE Machines.  More info on us is available at www.aemachines.com.

Typical tasks in our office:  Our office is located in the EnterpriseWorks Incubator at the University of Illinois Research Park.  The types of tasks going on in our office are:

— designing website frontend layout and workflow

— adding functionality to website by adding supported hardware and designing motion primitives

— adjusting CSS styling to accommodate new graphics layout

— designing website backend architecture and data structures

— brainstorming additional product features and strategizing on feature implementation

— writing use cases for the product

— creating presentation slides for upcoming pitches

— visiting factories and potential customers to assess needs and to integrate solutions

How to apply: Interested parties should send their resumes to eric@aemachines.com with a brief note articulating their interest in the position.

May 14, 2017 — Job opening announcement: Control Engineer

We are looking for a full-time engineer with experience in robotics.  Additional experience or interest in the following is also positive but not necessary:

•       robotics and control, manipulation, system integration, teach pendant programming

•       familiarity with low-cost “collaborative” robotic arms, e.g., UR, Rethink

•       machine code and assembly programming

•       experience in manufacturing

•       Java

•       user testing and UX design

•       movement practice such as sports, yoga, or dance

Most importantly, we are seeking an enthusiastic, independent learner and creative designer to work as a member of our team. The position is expected to start no sooner than June 2017 and no later than August 2017.  We require US citizenship for full-time hires; compensation will be in the form of salary and equity-based incentives.

Who we are: AE Machines is working to make automation accessible to a broad group of people and businesses.  The company was founded by two engineers, and we are looking to make key additions to our development team.  Our product is a web-based software platform that allows nontechnical users to set up simple automated systems. We are looking for engineers to scale up an initial proof-of-concept demo to an industrially-viable prototype in the space of small-batch manufacturing and collaborative robotics.

Our team: Our team consists of four employees, Amy, who is also a UIUC faculty member in the area of robotics, Eric, a CS and MBA grad, Craig, a physics PhD with years of experience, and Hunter, our UX designer and in-house artist. Amy and Eric are co-founders, and that’s one of the reasons we’re AE Machines.  More info on us is available at www.aemachines.com.

Typical tasks in our office:  Our office is located in the EnterpriseWorks Incubator at the University of Illinois Research Park.  The types of tasks going on in our office are:

— designing website frontend layout and workflow

— adding functionality to website by adding supported hardware and designing motion primitives

— adjusting CSS styling to accommodate new graphics layout

— designing website backend architecture and data structures

— brainstorming additional product features and strategizing on feature implementation

— writing use cases for the product

— creating presentation slides for upcoming pitches

— visiting factories and potential customers to assess needs and to integrate solutions

How to apply: Interested parties should send their resumes to eric@aemachines.com with a brief note articulating their interest in the position.

May 14, 2017 — Job opening announcement: Automation Engineer

We are looking for a full-time engineer with experience in industrial automation.  Additional experience or interest in the following is also positive but not necessary:

•       experience with programmable logic chips (PLCs) and ladder logic

•       machine code and assembly programming

•       familiarity with small-batch processes

•       robotics and/or embedded software

•       Java

•       user testing and UX design

•       movement practice such as sports, yoga, or dance

Most importantly, we are seeking an enthusiastic, independent learner and creative designer to work as a member of our team. The position is expected to start no sooner than June 2017 and no later than August 2017.  We require US citizenship for full-time hires; compensation will be in the form of salary and equity-based incentives.

Who we are: AE Machines is working to make automation accessible to a broad group of people and businesses.  The company was founded by two engineers, and we are looking to make key additions to our development team.  Our product is a web-based software platform that allows nontechnical users to set up simple automated systems. We are looking for engineers to scale up an initial proof-of-concept demo to an industrially-viable prototype in the space of small-batch manufacturing and collaborative robotics.

Our team: Our team consists of four employees, Amy, who is also a UIUC faculty member in the area of robotics, Eric, a CS and MBA grad, Craig, a physics PhD with years of experience, and Hunter, our UX designer and in-house artist. Amy and Eric are co-founders, and that’s one of the reasons we’re AE Machines.  More info on us is available at www.aemachines.com.

Typical tasks in our office:  Our office is located in the EnterpriseWorks Incubator at the University of Illinois Research Park.  The types of tasks going on in our office are:

— designing website frontend layout and workflow

— adding functionality to website by adding supported hardware and designing motion primitives

— adjusting CSS styling to accommodate new graphics layout

— designing website backend architecture and data structures

— brainstorming additional product features and strategizing on feature implementation

— writing use cases for the product

— creating presentation slides for upcoming pitches

— visiting factories and potential customers to assess needs and to integrate solutions

How to apply: Interested parties should send their resumes to eric@aemachines.com with a brief note articulating their interest in the position.