Solution Engineer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: American Electric Power

This position is located in Columbus, Ohio but may be eligible for remote home based as long as selected candidate is within AEP’s current operating territory (WV, VA, TN, AR, KY, TX, OH, IN, MI, OK, LA)*
Part of a larger team delivering high quality technology solutions to the business. Design, develop and install software solutions. Build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with internal architecture, development & design standards & best practices. Design, modify, develop, write, implement and troubleshoot software programming applications. Support and/or install software applications. Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software. Works within a Waterfall or Agile methodology/framework based team. Collaborates heavily with Project Management, Business Analyst and Infrastructure Job Families.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS are listed below:

Under limited supervision, responsibilities include one or more of the following for small and medium sized projects:

• Exhibit understanding of the SCADA system, components, and processes
• Ability to understand interrelationships between systems and components
• Demonstrate critical thinking, urgency, and attention to detail to support real time operations
• Meet with clients to discuss their hardware and software needs.
• Strategize with the business unit to create customized solutions.
• Draft and deliver presentations on targeted products.
• Design and install customized software and hardware solutions for the customer.
• Test the performance of the installed system and fix bugs.
• Provide post-installation follow-ups.
• Develop relationships and maintain customer relations.
• Support the business unit with all technical related queries.

Job Type Full-Time

Relocation No

Minimum Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required.

Experience:

• 2 years of relevant work experience is required.

An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Additional Preferred Requirements:

• Preferred experience supporting SCADA systems, Operational Technology Systems, and their components.
• OSII Monarch SCADA System experience
• Continuous maintenance and upgrades to the SCADA systems
• RTU programming and troubleshooting
• Compliance and Security of the SCADA systems
• Troubleshooting equipment and software to repair and diagnose any malfunctions in the system
• SCADA System Access Management

Physical demand level is Sedentary

Work Designation Remote

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Systems Integration Engineer

by Ronald Barron | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Remind

About the company

• Remind, the leading communication platform in education, helps educators reach students and parents where they are: their phones.
• With nearly 30 million active users, we’re one of the fastest-growing companies in education technology, but we have our sights set on something bigger: giving every student the opportunity to succeed.
• Remind runs one of the largest free services in education (Remind Chat), one of the fastest growing school/district SaaS businesses (Remind Hub), and a revolutionary new direct to consumer business (Remind Tutoring).
• The common thread through each of our product lines is the belief that success in education is driven by relationships, and the Remind communication platform is where the next generation of education relationships live.

About this role

• The Remind Revenue Operations team is looking for a Systems Integration Engineer to own the upkeep of our current tech stack.
• In this role, you will work hands-on in designing, managing, and implementing business system tools across multiple platforms.
• Reporting directly to the Senior Revenue Operations, you will have the opportunity to drive impact for students and teachers in this role by directly improving the Go-To-Market processes at Remind.

About you:

• You are passionate about maintaining and constantly improving business systems processes
• You have experience implementing and maintaining core business systems similar to Salesforce, FiveTran, Marketo, Netsuite, Outreach, (Ipass) mulesoft, mercato
• You have experience with project management and support help desk systems similar to Zendesk and Asana
• You have strong organizational and communication skills to keep all stakeholders informed and engaged throughout project lifecycles
• You are a self-starter able to define and execute a plan with minimal guidance
• You are flexible and embrace the opportunity to work on new challenge
• Bonus points if: You’re comfortable in advanced excel, python or data scripting in general

What you’ll do:

• Own and execute integration and enhancement schedules for each core business systems
• Serve as the primary point of contact for issues and troubleshooting, as well as technology stacks questions as it relates to our core internal systems
• Work directly with cross-functional teams to assess new software requests from internal stakeholders, to ensure business fit and identify any potential redundancies
• Conduct ongoing assessments of organization-wide and departmental technology stacks in order to make recommendations on system usage, consolidation and integration opportunities
• Develop proofs of concepts to validate new architecture and solutions
• Partner with business owners to develop training and deployment plans focused on user adoption and realization of business benefits
• Manage vendor relationships

Compensation:

• Competitive salary and equity
• 401K
• 100% health coverage for you and your dependents
• Additional flexible benefits for wellness and productivity
• Open vacation policy
• Paid parental leave

Remind is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We aim to represent the students, teachers, and parents we serve, and we welcome, support, and empower all the diverse individuals in our community.

Frequently cited statistics show that women/non-men and underrepresented minorities are likely to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Remind encourages you to break that statistic. If you are passionate about this role and our mission, even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we look forward to receiving your application.

Please review our reasonable accommodations document to learn how we support our candidates with disabilities.

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Software Engineer – Data Platform

by Ronald Barron | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Twilio

See yourself at Twilio

• Join the team as our next Software Engineer (L2) – Data Platform.

Who we are & why we’re hiring

• Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.
• Although we’re headquartered in San Francisco, we’re on a journey to becoming a globally antiracist company that supports diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business.
• We employ thousands of Twilions worldwide, and we’re looking for more builders, creators, and visionaries to help fuel our growth momentum.

About the job

• Twilio’s Data Platform processes billions of records per day and operates at the petabyte scale.
• Our engineers take care of a wide variety of data technologies, distributed systems, and design considerations to provide data as a platform to the rest of Twilio Engineering.
• The team runs hundreds of Kafka, Elasticsearch, Kudu and Spark nodes spread across many clusters, environments and regions and is an integral component to many of Twilio’s core products.
• We’re looking for engineers to help us scale and provide rock-solid service on our critical data infrastructure, design our customer-facing APIs, and craft the ecosystem of how Twilio thinks about data engineering at large.
• Developing low latency, highly available, globally distributed services platform that is used by over a dozen products with millions of events per minute.
• Developing secure and resilient customer facing APIs
• Leveraging open source data technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka and S3
• Owning and operating production services in AWS cloud infrastructure using tools like Datadog and Rollbar
• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or related field is a minimum requirement.

Responsibilities

In this role, you’ll:

• Own the development of data products, services and tools, in Java, Scala and Python, implement best practices.
• Drive quality by writing unit tests, functional tests and performance tests in a continuous delivery environment.
• Break down requirements, estimate tasks to ensure high quality work you’re doing.
• Support development operations, building, releasing and assisting with team on-call. Teams will be small and empowered so that you can adapt quickly and ship to production multiple times in a 2-week sprint.
• Collaborate with other teams and work cross-functionally for product launches.

Qualifications

Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having desired qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!

Required:

Twilio is looking for an engineer who lives the Twilio Magic values. They also have experience:

• Developing low latency, highly available, globally distributed services platform that is used by over a dozen products with millions of events per minute.
• Developing secure and resilient customer facing APIs
• Using open source data technologies such as Elasticsearch, Spark, Kafka and S3
• Owning and operating production services in AWS cloud infrastructure using tools like Datadog and Rollbar
• Bachelor’s degree in a computer science or related field is a minimum requirement.

Desired:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence and build effective working relationships with all levels of the organization.

Location

This role will be US – Remote OR Vancouver, BC – Remote. no travel is anticipated.

What We Offer

There are many benefits to working at Twilio, including, in addition to competitive pay, things like generous time-off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

Twilio thinks big. Do you?

We like to tackle problems, take initiative, pitch in when needed, and are always up for trying new things. That’s why we seek out colleagues who embody our values something we call Twilio Magic. Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.

So, if you’re ready to fuel your full potential, do your best work, and be the best version of yourself, apply now!

If this role isn’t what you’re looking for, please consider other open positions.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, equal opportunity factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state. This role is also eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state. This role is also eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.

*Please note this role is open to candidates outside of Colorado as well. The information below is provided for those hired in Colorado only.

Colorado applicants:

• The estimated pay range for this role, based in Colorado, is $120,000 – $140,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan.

The successful candidate’s starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the state. This role is also eligible to participate in Twilio’s equity plan and for the following benefits: health care insurance, 401(k) retirement account, paid sick time, paid personal time off, paid parental leave.

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Healthcare IT Recruiter

by Ronald Barron | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Randstad

Job details

• Randstad is the #1 HR Services Provider in the world, and we are hiring internally for a Technical Recruiter to join our winning team.
• Technical Recruiters are responsible for full-cycle recruiting including building a pipeline of qualified candidates through sourcing, screening, interviewing, and submitting to clients.
• We take the time to build relationships with clients and candidates so we can truly understand what they need and how we can help them succeed.
• Our people drive our business, connecting talented IT professionals with organizations where they can produce results.

What you get to do:

• Source and screen potential IT candidates for contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent openings at a nationwide scale
• Analyze candidate information to determine matches between candidates and job openings
• Establish relationships with consultants and account managers
• Prioritize and track job orders to fulfill client needs quickly
• Increase the number of qualified applicants and leads in our database
• Familiarize yourself with industry trends, including client, market, and unemployment conditions
• Meet or exceed weekly performance goals and expectations

What you need to bring:

• 1+ year of recruiting experience or business development ideally in healthcare IT including but not limited to EMR systems such as Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts
• Bachelor’s degree is strongly preferred
• Proven success in a very fast-paced team environment and creativity towards leads, placements and relationship building
• Agility to fully leverage all processes and technology tools to more productively deliver results
• Strong interpersonal communication and influencing skills
• Ability to make decisions, take direction and execute a plan
• Proficiency using Applicant Tracking Systems, Job Boards, Google mail, calendaring and shared drives

What’s in it for you:

• Largest global staffing leader
• Competitive salary + bonus
• Excellent benefits package – medical, dental, vision
• Generous PTO policy earned from day one
• Education and professional development
• Rapid career growth
• Retirement savings and security
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long term disability
• Employee assistance program and health advocacy
• Health and dependent care flexible spending account
• Metlife auto and home insurance
• Metlife legal plan
• Referral reward program
• Exclusive discounts and programs with dozens of nationwide vendors and retailers

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Junior Solutions Researcher

by Ronald Barron | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized

Employer: Phaidra

About Phaidra

Phaidra is building the future of industrial automation.

The world today is filled with static, monolithic infrastructure. Factories, power plants, buildings, etc. operate the same they’ve operated for decades because the controls programming is hard-coded. Thousands of lines of rules and heuristics that define how the machines interact with each other. The result of all this hard-coding is that facilities are frozen in time, unable to adapt to their environment while their performance slowly degrades.

Phaidra creates AI-powered control systems for the industrial sector, enabling industrial facilities to automatically learn and improve over time. Specifically:

• The intelligence is provided by reinforcement learning algorithms, which convert raw sensor data into high-value actions and decisions.
• We focus on industrial applications, which tend to be well-sensorized with measurable KPIs perfect for reinforcement learning.
• We enable domain experts (our users) to configure the AI control systems (i.e. agents) without writing code. They define what they want their AI agents to do, and we do it for them.

Our team has a track record of applying AI to some of the toughest problems. From achieving superhuman performance with DeepMind’s AlphaGo, to reducing the energy required to cool Google’s Data Centers by 40%, we deeply understand AI and how to apply it in production for massive impact.

As a Junior Solutions Researcher, you’ll play a critical role in understanding and assessing chemical use cases within Phaidra.

Responsibilities

• You will work closely with the Solutions Architect Team and the AI Research Team to help condense and describe new potential chemical use cases.

This role can be broken down into five concrete areas of responsibility:

• Researching and understanding potential new use cases and expanding our understanding of existing use cases.
• Condensing these use cases into reusable, scalable components within the Phaidra architecture.
• Clearly documenting each use case in concise terms.
• Interviewing subject matter experts to further our understanding of each use case.
• Assisting Solutions Architects in applying our technology to different use cases.

Key Qualifications

• Ability to do deep research into different industries and industrial processes.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly.
• A good understanding of chemistry and chemical processes such as:
  • thermodynamics
  • fluid dynamics
  • heat and mass transfer
  • separation technologies
  • reactor engineering

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Understanding of Control Theory.
• Ability to read and analyze process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID) for understanding process and control dynamics.
• Experience with AI and ML.
• Experience with statistics, analytics, etc.
• Experience with domain relevant optimization problems and solutions.
• Experience with Python programming.
• Familiarity with markup languages like Xml, Json, or Yaml.
• Familiarity with the following applications:
  • Slack
  • Google Suite
  • Google Colab

Benefits & Perks

• Fast-paced and team-oriented environment where you will be instrumental in the direction of the company.
• Phaidra is a fully-remote company – work anywhere, anytime.
• Competitive compensation & early equity.
• Outsized responsibilities & professional development.
• Training is foundational; functional, customer immersion, and development training.
• Medical/dental/vision insurance (offerings based on region). We cover 100% of the premium for employees and 50% of the premium for dependents.
• Unlimited paid time off.
• MacBook and home office setup stipend.

Base Salary Range

• USA residents: $49,100 – $60,700 USD
• Canada residents: $55,300 – $71,600 CAD
• This role will also include equity.

On being Remote

We are thoughtful about remote collaboration. We look to the pioneers – like Gitlab – for inspiration and best practices to create a stellar remote work environment. We have a documentation first culture and actively practice asynchronous communication in everything we do. We are deliberate about documenting and living our values – of which accessibility, transparency, and agility are key. Our team stays connected through tools like Slack and Video Chat. We meet daily and have dedicated all-hands meetings to build strong relationships. We hold virtual team building events – and even hold virtual socials to watch rocket launches! We will have in-person All-Hands meetings once a year as travel opens back up.

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