There are 7 billion people on this planet. And by 2050, there will be 2 billion more... many moving into urban centers at an unprecedented rate. Making sure there is enough food, fiber and infrastructure for our rapidly growing world is what we’re all about at John Deere. And it’s why we’re investing in our people and our technology like never before in our 175-year history. Here the world’s brightest minds are tackling the world’s biggest challenges. If you believe one person can make the world a better place, we’ll put you to work. RIGHT NOW.

Primary Location: United States (US) - Illinois (US-IL) - Champaign 
Function: Product Engineering
Title: Senior Mobile Developer - 29386

Your Responsibilities

As a Senior Mobile Developer, working at John Deere’s Innovation Center in Champaign, IL, you will have a front row seat to the digital farming revolution. You will work on projects with complex software challenges that help deliver a “connected experience” for John Deere’s customers. We are looking for individuals who enjoy tackling tough problems in a creative way. If you’re passionate about making our farmers more productive through mobile technologies, we’d like to talk with you.  In this role you will:

• Work as a highly skilled Agile software development team working closely with other team members to ensure the success of our innovative products.
• Write production code that improves the efficiency of our customer's equipment.
• Work closely with Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) and Product Owners (POs).
• Build software in an environment that fosters a "culture of speed".
• Work on apps like Connect Mobile and Harvest Mobile.

*** U.S. visa sponsorship is NOT available for the role. ***  

What Skills You Need

• Five or more years of professional software development.

• Experience in roles that required a strong understanding of system and application performance characteristics.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skill and sharp analytical abilities.
• Demonstrated design skills.
• Proficiency in, at least, one modern programming language such as C, C++, C#, Python, or Java.

What Makes You Stand Out 

Other areas of experience or interest that will help us place you on the right team include:

• Experience developing a mobile app with either Android or iOS that demonstrates a strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architectures.
• Native iOS development in Objective C/Swift.
• Experience building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers.
• Demonstrated knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Education

Ideally, you will have a degree or equivalent work experience in the following:                                                             

• Bachelors of Arts/Science in an Engineering, Computer Science or related field;
• Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D) in Engineering, Computer Science or related field desired.

What You'll Get

At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. We offer comprehensive relocation and reward packages to help you get started on your new career path. Click here to find out more about our Total Rewards Package.

The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines.

John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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GSI is looking for a highly talented App developer to join our team at the Research Park. This person will be instrumental in helping GSI create next generation training materials utilizing augmented reality with delivery through multiple platforms including tablets, smart phones, and virtual reality through Microsoft HoloLens. Content created will be used to train our customers on the features and benefits of GSI’s many products. We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated to explore and create within the Mixed Reality space to bring value to our business and customers.

Role Responsibilities:

• Develop augmented reality experiences utilizing tools like PTC ThingWorx, PTC Illustrate, and Creo Parametric

• Explore and understand the various delivery platforms including HoloLens, Tablets, and Smart Phones

• Provide recommendations of how GSI can utilize HoloLens technology, and augmented reality throughout our business

• Develop various mixed reality training experiences across multiple product platforms

Qualifications:

• Undergrad or graduate students eligible

• General curiosity about Mixed Reality Technology

• Experience working with virtual/augmented/mixed reality software

• Understanding of Unity and C Sharp

• Keen eye for 3-D  design and modeling

• Experience in 3-D modeling, CAD, and design

• Excellent communication skills, and presentation skills

• Creative problem solver

Additional Details:

This is a paid internship for the Fall of 2017 that requires the student to work 10-15 hours a week at GSI’s office in Research Park. Interested candidates should email a resume to Lena Head at lswearingen@gsiag.com 

ABOUT GSI:

GSI is a global manufacturer of grain systems and swine and poultry production equipment. GSI is a part of AGCO and one of their five core brands. AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) is a fortune 500 corporation that is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural solutions. GSI is dedicated to protecting every acre, every harvest and every animal in our customer’s care. By doing this we help advance agriculture in developing countries and around the world.

GSI is looking for a talented and outgoing student with great oral and written communication skills and vivacious personality to join our team at the Research Park. This person will be instrumental in helping GSI build brand awareness on campus and will be responsible for creating and guiding GSI’s promotional strategy.

Role Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and lead GSI’s Research Park Grand Opening Event, including: working with the university to draft a press release, designing event invitations, developing event signage and overall event coordination

• Assist in creating content for marketing materials for the Champaign site, recruiting, and other efforts, including developing a strategy to increase brand awareness on campus

• Lead content planning and development for web presence for the Champaign site

• Preparing for and working at recruitment opportunities for student and full time employees such as career fairs and networking events

Qualifications:

• Junior or Senior student studying communications, business, marketing, advertising or similar

• Previous advertising or marketing experience required

• Background or general understanding of the Agriculture industry a plus

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Experience or interest in using InDesign and Photoshop

Additional Details

This is a paid internship for the Fall of 2017 that requires the student to work 10-15 hours a week at GSI’s office in Research Park. Interested candidates should email a resume and writing or design sample to Lena Head at lswearingen@gsiag.com

ABOUT GSI:

GSI is a global manufacturer of grain systems and swine and poultry production equipment. GSI is a part of AGCO and one of their five core brands. AGCO (NYSE: AGCO) is a fortune 500 corporation that is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of agricultural solutions. GSI is dedicated to protecting every acre, every harvest and every animal in our customer’s care. By doing this we help advance agriculture in developing countries and around the world.

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Is seeking a Staff Engineer-Cloud Solutions intern for its operation in the Research Park at the University of Illinois. This position reports to and is under direct supervision of the University Program Manager.

Responsibilities:

·        Work involves a good amount of research in performance analysis & optimizations, and program analysis tools design, prototypes and implementation with focus on distributed and cloud computing.

·        Proactively engage with customers to identify opportunities for cloud technology solutions; bootstrap projects from scratch; and turn ideas into prototypes and production

·        (Last but not least) Be creative, keep on learning, and stay connected w/ the community

Requirements:

·        Ph.D. in Computer Science or 5+ years of work experience in the relevant areas

·        Expertise in one or more of the following areas:

·        In-depth knowledge and understanding of distributed and cloud system architectures, tools technologies, its challenges and solutions on these systems.

·        Experience in methodologies of performance optimization in VM, runtime and library, and full stack software profiling, software engineering tools on distributed or/and cloud systems.

·        Performance measurement, analysis and optimization, via experience in a relevant area, such as performance modeling, parallel software development.

·        Strong software development skills, proficient in software engineering techniques and methodologies

·        Fluency in C/C++/Java and many other cloud based programming languages

Nice to haves:

·        Because we develop cloud tools technology for a variety of purposes, competence in a breadth of distributed systems in heterogeneous environment is a plus

·        Experience with runtime system, such as memory management and concurrent task scheduling, and in newer, cloud based languages like Go, Rust, Scala, and Swift

·        Experience with developing programming technologies for the Cloud and/or distributed environment and smart devices

·        Prior engagement in open-source projects, developers’ community, and/or research community

Availability: starting as soon as possible.

Applicants should send a cover letter and resume to Rhiannon Clifton at Rhiannon.clifton2@huawei.com.

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.

The Programming Technologies Lab of Huawei is seeking candidates w/ expertise in the broad area of cloud computing technologies. Our lab is young but growing and has a vast technical space to explore. We welcome researchers and engineers alike. More information about Huawei can be found here.

As a member of a highly talented team, you get to do creative work and make an impact by solving real customer problems. While our current projects include language design, compiler & JVM, and performance optimization, the lab continues to grow and expand to explore software technologies in new domains (e.g., cloud, distributed computing, smart devices). As such, we are not looking for people w/ a fixed set of skills, but rather for “growth-mindset” people who have versatile experience in the field and are undaunted by acquiring new skills.

Responsibilities:

·        Research in: performance analysis & optimizations; program analysis tools design, prototypes and implementation; with focus on distributed and cloud computing.

·        Proactively engage with customers to identify opportunities for cloud technology solutions; bootstrap projects from scratch; and turn ideas into prototypes and production.

Requirements:

·        Ph.D. in Computer Science or 5+ years of work experience in the relevant areas

·        Expertise/experience in one or more of the following areas:

·        Distributed and cloud system architectures, tools technologies, its challenges and solutions on these systems.  

·        Methodologies of performance optimization in VM; runtime and library; and full stack software profiling; software engineering tools on distributed or/and cloud systems.

·        Performance measurement, analysis and optimization via experience in a relevant area, such as performance modeling, parallel software development.

·        Strong software development skills, proficient in software engineering techniques and methodologies

·        Fluency in C/C++/Java and many other cloud-based programming languages

Preferred qualifications:

·        Because we develop cloud tools technology for a variety of purposes, competence in a breadth of distributed systems in heterogeneous environment is a plus

·        Experience with runtime system, such as memory management and concurrent task scheduling, and in newer, cloud based languages like Go, Rust, Scala, and Swift

·        Experience with developing programming technologies for the Cloud and/or distributed environment and smart devices

·        Familiar with cloud computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Sprint boot, Open Stack, Docker etc.

·        Prior experiences with cloud services design and implementation in AWS, Azure and other public cloud services

·        Prior experience with debugging and performance analysis and related tools in cloud computing and micro-services

·        Prior engagement in open-source projects, developers’ community, and/or research community
 

Huawei Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

A software engineer at Quicket will develop the cutting-edge, next-generation technologies for the handling of mission-critical and sensitive information for public safety agencies.
Candidate must be proficient in at least one or multiple areas of computer science and engineering, including information retrieval, data mining and data analysis, RDBMS, DBMS, Hadoop framework, device driver development, machine learning, advance image processing, distributed computing, networking, security and user interface design.
Qualified candidates must be able to enjoy and work well with a highly competitive and small team. Must be willing to switch teams and development modules as our fast-paced business grows and evolves. We need our engineers to be versatile and always eager to tackle new problems as we continue to push technology forward.
Courses Recommended: CS 241 or ECE 391 and an additional advance programming class such as CS 242 or CS 425 or ECE 429 or similar, and any database class such as CS 411 or CS 412 or CS 410. Full time candidates must have or are receiving their degree in CS or Computer Engineering no later than May 2015.

To apply, please email your resume to info@quicketsolutions.com

Qualified candidates are able to plan, develop, and maintain a beautiful website. Must be highly skilled in graphic design, user interface, web programming, illustration tools, multimedia content development, and internet presence.

To apply, please email your resume to info@quicketsolutions.com

We are seeking exceptionally talented programmers with a passion for developing mobile applications that make a big impact on the way people work. Must be fluent in Java and have experience in Android application programming. Candidates are familiar with network related APIs, accessing remote databases from Android devices, and JSON/XML formatting. 

To apply, please email your resume to info@quicketsolutions.com

Qualified candidates has strong competency in safeguarding information system assets by identifying and solving potential and actual security problems. Must have advanced knowledge and hands-on experience of networking protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, SMTP, VoIP, and HTTP etc.) and network topologies. (e.g., Ethernet, VLAN, Wireless etc.) Knowledge of defense-in-depth methodology of network security including familiarity with subnetting, DNS, encryption technologies and standards, VPNs, VLANs, VoIP and other network routing methods. Knowledge of Firewall and VPN Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), Web Security Gateway (WSG), Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and Vulnerability Management. If currently or previously attended the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, the classes we prefer include: CS 460/ECE 419 & CS461/ECE 422, &, or CS463/ECE424 or equivalent courses.

To apply, please email your resume to info@quicketsolutions.com

Job Description

General:

Hiring Company:          The U.S. office of a large Japanese starch manufacturerURL:                     http://www.nihon-cornstarch.com/english/Employment Type:         Full TimeLocation:                Champaign, IllinoisReports to:              Company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan

The hiring company is a large Japanese corn starch manufacturer with a 150-year history.  The company’s office in Illinois buys corn in the U.S. and ships it to Japan.  Some corn is purchased through trading companies and some is purchased directly. Japanese language skills, native English speaker and U.S. citizenship or green card required for this position.

Job Title: Grain Purchaser / Merchandiser

Responsibilities include:

• Maintain relationships with grain suppliers in the U.S. as appropriate to ensure a consistent, stable, supply of corn.
• Purchase the required amount of grain at the best possible price, taking into consideration quality, grain type and logistics.
• Gather, analyze, centrally organize and communicate to Japan information on the trends in the U.S. corn market.
• Oversee the contracts required for grain purchases.
• Coordinate, arrange and oversee all storage and transportation of purchased corn from the point of origin to delivery in Japan.
• Maintain accurate records related to the purchasing and transporting of corn.
• Arrange and track appropriate insurance as needed during storage and transportation.
• Maintain records which document the quality and identity of corn types (Non-GMO) as necessary.

Skills:                                            

• Native English language speaker with Japanese language proficiency sufficient for doing business in Japanese, including strong verbal and written communication in both languages.
• We are willing to teach or support on-the-job training for the appropriate candidate who lacks experience in grain merchandising but is willing to learn.
• Open to all majors; good understanding of agribusiness is a plus.
• Work experience with export logistics of grain or other commodities a plus.
• Strong work ethic.
• Willing to travel.
• Uphold all legal, compliance and confidentiality standards set by the company.
• Proficiency in Japanese or Willingness to learn Japanese is a must

Internship:　　　　　

We are also looking for students who would like to work as interns at any time.

Time-frame, salary and work location for interns are negotiable.