{"id":11167,"date":"2012-02-09T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=11167"},"modified":"2012-02-09T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T20:28:01","slug":"job-or-intern-generalist-developers-data-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2012\/02\/09\/job-or-intern-generalist-developers-data-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB or INTERN] Generalist Developers &#038; Data Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Employee #5ish at Skim.Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hacker, Ninja, Whiz, Hero, Warlock, Guru, &amp; Rockstar.<br \/>\nHelp us add to the list of most hated technical job descriptors.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re looking for\u00a0<strong>generalist developers &amp; data scientists\u00a0<\/strong>to add to our team working on a monster of a problem. Full-time, part-time or as part of an internship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where We Work From:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An office on the 8th floor of a NYU building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who We\u2019re Looking For:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone we can trust<\/li>\n<li>You love working with different APIs or want to learn<\/li>\n<li>Back-end architecture and optimization skills a plus<\/li>\n<li>Interest in working with data and on tough machine learning problems, not\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/stdout.be\/2011\/07\/18\/machine-learning-fairy-dust\/\" target=\"_blank\">fairy dust<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You might have experience working with browser plug-ins or would like to learn<\/li>\n<li>You understand the importance of getting stuff done quickly<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re not afraid of taking risks and trying new stuff<\/li>\n<li>You communicate effectively<\/li>\n<li>You may want to build your own start-up one day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s In It For You:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Autonomy to build<\/li>\n<li>Friends<\/li>\n<li>Experience at the inception of something special<\/li>\n<li>Hardware upgrade if you need it<\/li>\n<li>Flexible schedule and ability to work remotely<\/li>\n<li>Free food and beer (will check ID)<\/li>\n<li>Real Pre-funding Equity<\/li>\n<li>Money<\/li>\n<li>Whatever else you need on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs\" target=\"_blank\">Maselow\u2019s Hierarchy of Needs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Company Spiel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are building underlying technology for the next computing revolution. At the user level, the problem we are tackling involves unintelligent information management. Routine web and app browsing should be smarter across all your devices. Underneath it all, Skim.Me will be the central repository for personalized activity data \u2013 your activity graph.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the process of raising a round of financing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who We Really Are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are data artists with engineering experience finishing our Master\u2019s and PhD degrees in CS, a front-end developer \/ designer, and an everything else guy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Stack:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LAMP on a RackSpace Cloud server running CentOS 5.5<br \/>\nOn the front-end, JavaScript and HTML5\/CSS3<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested, send a note to wu [at] skim [dot] me and we\u2019ll setup a time to meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employee #5ish at Skim.Me Hacker, Ninja, Whiz, Hero, Warlock, Guru, &amp; Rockstar. Help us add to the list of most hated technical job descriptors. We\u2019re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intern","category-job","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}