Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

Four billion people do not have access to the internet. Astranis is going to change that. We are building the next generation of smaller, lower-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the world online.

Join us and work with top engineers who have flown things in space before. The team is currently 35 people from SpaceX, Skybox, Qualcomm, and Google.

Roles we’re hiring for include:

* Embedded software -- write mission critical software that runs the spacecraft. No previous embedded or space experience required.

* Avionics -- PCB design, layout, bringup, test of mission critical electrical subsystems. Bonus: experience with fault-tolerant electronics

* Power electronics -- Design ~2 kW satellite power systems, including solar arrays and electronics for power regulation and distribution

* Thermal -- Design and analyze systems to reject sizable point loads without the aid of convection

* Aerospace/controls -- implement solutions to 6 DOF, non-linear control problems. Experience with spacecraft controls is a plus but not required.

* RF/Microwave -- work across a broad range designing and implementing RF systems at microwave frequencies, including LNAs and power amplifiers

* DSP/FPGA -- program FPGA hardware, develop custom DSP IP cores and integrate off-the-shelf IP cores

Please check out our postings here-- https://jobs.lever.co/astranis

galdosdi · 6 years ago

As per the OP, you are supposed to state whether remote/onsite is acceptable. You didn't do that, and I'm looking for remote work, and your description sounded exciting, so I applied anyway, even though I'm stuck as remote only. I hope I didn't just waste my time :-)

8note · 6 years ago

are the FPGAs going to space? I'm intrigued on how you'd make sure a cosmic ray doesn't accidentally reprogram it

godelski · 6 years ago

I'm reading "smaller, low cost" as microdata (bigger than cube). If you're in LEO you're only up for a few years and totally your use COTs (commercial off the shelf) hardware. How do you deal with radiation? You don't. Hardware fails or your flash it. This is the cheap way to do things. The reason being that these satellites are small and thus launch costs are also small. Here your launch cost is like $100k (which is cheap in the industry). In the small stuff, failure is an option.

When you're launching something bigger you're going into a high orbit (longer lifespan) and you have to deal with more lifetime radiation. Costs are not linear either. So at a larger scale you rad harden because your launch cost is a significant cost to you. We're talking satellites that have tens to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of hardware on them. Not only that, but the satellite took years of work. Here failure is not an option.

But for actual hardening, typically you use sapphire chips instead of silicon. There are other things you can do like encasing in different materials. Multi layered and doped plastics are common now (I actually did some work 3d printing shields, intending to be low cost).

e_carra · 6 years ago

There is a field of study called fault tolerance. Many applications are in aerospace. Check [1] to get a better idea.

[1]: https://books.google.it/books?id=gBEpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA238&lpg=P...

sigstoat · 6 years ago

FPGAs have been used in space regularly for years. they were using rad hardened ones last i knew. and the electronics are regularly reset, which causes them to reload from their *PROMs.

eggie5 · 6 years ago

There's loss of fpgas in space already. Space micro is one example

• Transforming NASA data into astrological patterns that astrologers can write and map copy to • Using TB of data to define and create personalized, emotionally resonant content • Developing internal tools to give our writers superpowers • Shipping new features & A/B tests in our Apple-lauded iOS app • Scaling our backend infrastructure to >1M daily users

https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/index.html

The National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), a robotics research and development powerhouse, is looking for experienced developers, especially in embedded systems, robotics, perception, deep learning, data science, and AI. For more than 21 years NREC has brought together a critical mass of software and hardware engineers in order to take technology from the laboratory to the real world. NREC maintains a diverse portfolio of projects, from Augmented Reality driver assistance to full off-road autonomy and from advanced teleoperation to full autonomous manipulation.

NREC is part of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, focused on commercialization of robotic technologies, and employs over 150 people in their off-campus facility. An NREC developer can go from developing mapping for a mining robot operating in extreme environments (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/mining/profiler.html) to developing hardware and controls for unique research vehicles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-URxpqi0oAU). Another may go from developing training products for humanitarian workers (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/defense/other-projects...) on to assistive technologies that make work easier for farmers around the world (https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/solutions/agriculture/other-agri...).

C++ and Python software engineers - https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/senior-software-engineer...

Cloud/ML Systems/Data engineers - https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/data-engineer-machine-le...

Computer Vision engineers - https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/robotics-developer-compu...

ML/AI Engineering - https://www.nrec.ri.cmu.edu/careers/senior-machine-learning-...

If you have questions or are interested in any positions in robotics, please contact Christine DeCarolis ( cdecarolis@nrec.ri.cmu.edu ). In your communication, please mention hacker news.

jonathankchang · 6 years ago

If anyone has questions about the NREC, I've been working there for several years on perception.

astranis · 6 years ago

bgentry · 6 years ago

Distru (https://www.distru.com) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Product Designer, Product Marketer, Product Manager | Oakland, CA | REMOTE | Full-Time Distru is a software platform for the cannabis supply chain. Our product helps cannabis companies manage production, sales, invoicing, and shipments, automating compliance with complicated state regulations that require real-time inventory tracking gram-by-gram. We are growing rapidly with over $500M in transactions per year passing through our platform, and we’re uniquely positioned to define trade in the growing cannabis industry.

We are a lean 9 person engineering-focused team that includes early engineers from Opendoor and Heroku. We are hiring experienced full-stack engineers and a product designer to help take our product to the next level. We love product-minded engineers that can own a feature across the frontend and backend, even if they're stronger at one side of that. Our tech stack is built from the ground up on Elixir/Phoenix, Postgres, React/Redux, and GraphQL.

After bootstrapping ourselves to profitability, we just closed our seed round with Felicis Ventures, Village Global, Global Founders Capital, and numerous notable angel investors including Elad Gil, Katie Stanton, and Avichal Garg: https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/03/distru-a-maker-of-supply-c...

Please apply at https://distru.com/careers and mention Hacker News!

o1pranay · 6 years ago

At O(1) Labs, we're building the Coda Protocol, the first cryptocurrency to have a constant-sized blockchain. We use recursive zk-SNARKs to compress historic state in Coda's blockchain so that nodes don't have to store all the data going back to the first transaction. Compare this to Bitcoin or Ethereum whose blockchains already have hundreds of GBs of data, and keep growing.

We're excited about this tech because it allows all the nodes in a network to be full nodes (no SPV's!) and enables applications that can use the entire blockchain embedded in a phone or a browser.

I'm on the product team, and we're looking for product engineers - but you can find all the roles we're hiring for here - https://codaprotocol.com/jobs.html. Our stack is OCaml on the protocol side, and ReasonML + React on the front-end. All of our code is open source - https://github.com/codaprotocol/coda.

Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or want to meet in person for a coffee, if you're based in the bay area. My email is pranay@o1labs.org.

inaseer · 6 years ago

P# team at Microsoft | Redmond, WA | Contract | Onsite

The P# team at Microsoft works on enabling developers to write reliable, well-designed and well-tested software through model checking and language integration techniques. The approach is reminiscent of TLA+ like techniques but differs in that the code _is_ the model and developers don't have to write models separate from the implementation. P# explores interesting paths through the state space a program can take and produces reproducible traces which can be used to debug and fix issues in services and distributed systems.

This position will involve a variety of tasks including writing samples and documentation to help P# gain wider adoption, and porting parts of the testing infrastructure to work on .NET core. It will also involve working on novel visualization techniques to aid debugging and comprehension of services and distributed systems.

banuguler · 6 years ago

Co—Star Astrology | Full-time | On-site | New York | $130-150k + equity https://www.costarastrology.com

Co-Star is bringing astrology into the 21st century with a social, personalized experience that helps people reflect and connect in real, meaningful ways. We just raised $5m from the people behind companies like Glossier, Rent the Runway, eBay, Periscope, and Everlane.

We’re looking for iOS, Android, and full-stack software developers to join our 8-person team in Chinatown, NYC.

We want your help:

Our stack includes • Haskell for our backend • Swift and Android Native (kotlin) for our mobile apps • React and TypeScript on the web (costarastrology.com + internal tools) • AWS to host our infrastructure • PostgreSQL Competitive comp, $0 deductible fully-covered health care, unlimited vacation (min 4 weeks), conference/book/whatever budget Read more details here -> https://www.costarastrology.com/jobs + feel free to email with questions -> jobs at costarastrology.com

louisswiss · 6 years ago

> Developing internal tools to give our writers superpowers

This is amazing. I mean, you literally will be giving their writers superpowers...

PrepScholar2 · 6 years ago

PrepScholar’s mission is to improve education at scale through technology. Our flagship product is an SAT/ACT prep program that automatically learns the strengths and weaknesses of each student and creates an individualized learning program through machine learning. You can think of it as an automated tutor that provides a compelling learning experience at scale. We also have a large web presence with over two million monthly visitors to our free tools and articles.

We believe we have a major advantage over other companies in our space because of our technology-centered and analytical approach to education. We're profitable and bootstrapped, and you'll join as an early engineer working on products that impact millions of students worldwide.

Our stack: * Sass, JQuery, Backbone

* Django/Python

* MySQL

* AWS/Linux

Requirements:

* Strong foundation in computer science and software engineering, including competencies in data structures, algorithms, databases, software design and dev ops.

* Strong hands-on experience with our core technologies is a big plus. In particular:

----Python and Django

----JavaScript and JavaScript MV* frameworks like AngularJS, Ember, Knockout, or Backbone

Email us at job.engineer@prepscholar.com, and read more at http://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/careers.

bill_duckduckgo · 6 years ago

DuckDuckGo - We are looking for candidates that are excited to join us on a mission to be the company people trust most with their online privacy. All of our roles are fully-remote!

DuckDuckGo | Director, User Insights | REMOTE

DuckDuckGo | Senior Mobile Engineer | REMOTE

DuckDuckGo | Senior Site Reliability Engineer | REMOTE

DuckDuckGo | Senior Frontend Engineer | REMOTE

DuckDuckGo | Brand Design Lead | REMOTE

DuckDuckGo | Senior macOS Engineer | REMOTE

https://duckduckgo.com/hiring

snelsonus · 6 years ago

I can't want until you need a non-technical hire. Even if that means taking out the trash or answering phones. I just want to help DuckDuckGo succeed.

jxramos · 6 years ago

Very impressive this bit about "The DuckDuckGo Hiring Process", I'm very intrigued by that.

nationalrobotic · 6 years ago