llvm dev - Jan 2011 - [LLVMdev] Compiler Centric Career Opportunities in finance

Hi --

 

I'm working with a number of finance companies in New York City and Chicago
which are looking to develop languages and platforms in order to process
extremely large datasets.  As such, we are looking for people with experience
and / or interest in programming language and compiler design -- hence my
posting on the LLVM mailing list.

 

Goldman Sachs most famously developed Slang and SecDB more than 20 years ago --
Slang is essentially a scripting language based on Scheme (functional) which has
added a number of object oriented features.  SecDB is columnar database similar
to APL / K / Q.  http://bit.ly/eVJpQY

 

Obviously there have been some changes in computer science in the last 20 years!
As such, many of these groups are taking advantage of new(er) technologies
including Map Reduce / Pig / MongoDB / Hadoop / Python / Haskell / OCaml / C++.

 

In order to best utilize these technologies and create new platforms, we are
looking for people who have strong experience with compiler theory – especially
folks who are not tied to one framework.  We are also looking for folks with e
experience building compilers for functional, logical or dataflow languages. 
Experience with LLVM or gnu is essential.



 

I am recruiting for not just Goldman Sachs, but several other banks and hedge
funds that are seeking to imitate Goldman's approach.  These clients are
located both in Chicago and New York City.  The appeal of working with these
groups is the opportunity to work in a research and development environment with
extremely technical developers and excellent compensation.  You would not be
anywhere close to screaming traders on the trading floor :)




 

If anyone would be interested in speaking in more detail with me -- feel free to
reach out to me at my contact details below.  Also, feel free to forward my
contact details to anyone who might be interested.



 

Thanks for letting me post this here. 



 

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John Keenan
Technical Recruiter
Continuity Partners Inc.
245 5th Avenue 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10016
tel: 212-213-2220 x103
cell: 646-246-7070

www.cpi-search.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkeenan 
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On Jan 14, 2011, at 9:17 AM, John Keenan wrote:
> Hi --
>  
> I'm working with a number of finance companies in New York City and
Chicago which are looking to develop languages and platforms in order to process
extremely large datasets.  As such, we are looking for people with experience
and / or interest in programming language and compiler design -- hence my
posting on the LLVM mailing list.
Hi John,

FYI, general compiler job postings are off-topic for this list.  However, if the
job is specifically LLVM related, it is welcome, just make this clear in the
post.

-Chris
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