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We are looking for a talented EE with analog and digital skills. Someone who likes to make things. Someone who understands design. Someone who wants to see his or her work in mass production. Someone who wants to use their skills to reduce the world's energy consumption, rather than building baby-killing robots or something like that. Power electronics skills are a definite plus.

Located in downtown Boston, Digital Lumens is the leader in intelligent LED lighting for industrial and commercial markets. Our products integrate highly efficient power supplies, mesh networking, sensing, power monitoring, and smart controls to maximize energy savings in warehouses, factories, and more. We want to change the way people think about lighting. And we're a pretty cool group of people to work with.

RightBid is changing the way online retailers set prices. Our software enables online retailers to collect competitors’ prices from a variety of leading online shopping sites and utilize this data in setting prices. Research has shown that a retailer sees a 60% jump in sales for posting a lower price than a competitor on a comparison shopping site. Because large retailers manage tens or hundreds of thousands of products, keeping track of all these prices can be burdensome. We help online retailers find these opportunities and set smarter prices.

We are looking for an ambitious young programmer to take our software to the next level. We have implemented our software for four online retailers with a combined $100M in annual online revenue and are looking to make a big splash. We are looking for an exceptional candidate to help full-time in the following areas:

-Migrate our software from a desktop application to a web application.

-Reorganize our database systems.

-Improve the speed, reliability, and scale of our custom designed web crawlers.

-Make our software faster, stronger, and easier to use.

An ideal candidate will possess:

-A knack for problem solving

-A Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering

-Experience with database system design -Experience designing web applications

-Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Python, AWS, and C# a plus.

We are looking for an entrepreneurial candidate who is willing to commit to mastering all aspects of software development. Given that a successful candidate will become employee #2 for our company, this position will afford the opportunity to take significant leadership over future releases of our software and our overall vision for smarter pricing in e-commerce. A solid effort will lead to a substantial ownership stake in a growing startup.

RightBid was founded in the summer of 2012 and is based outside Manchester, NH—less than an hour drive from Boston. To learn more, check out www.rightbidretail.com.

Are you ready to help RightBid takeoff?

To apply please send a resume to jobs@rightbidretail.com.

Seeking a cofounder and a hands-on lead mobile engineer with a lot of hustle for a mobile application and start up called Social Grad. As we grow, you would assume a CTO role inspiring and growing a team of iOS & Android engineers.

Social Grad aims to solve the challenge of social life after college for millions of recent grads and soon-to-be grads. Needless to say, social life after college really sucks; we've gone through it personally.

You will take over the technical direction of the project and help shape our culture with us! We're looking for a combination of technical skills and entrepreneur flair. You should be able to learn new technologies and prototype quickly while being familiar and comfortable with customer development and product design. This is a great opportunity to join a fun and exciting young team at the ground level and help shape technology consumption for the massive untapped market.

You will: - have experience developing for iOS4/5 - have a good grasp of Ruby, JS, jQuery and Ruby on Rails - be fluent (but not a world-class expert) in HTML5 and CSS3 - enjoy trying new ideas and experimenting with new technologies

We'd expect you: - to show initiative and make independent decisions - to take responsibility for long-term development roadmap - to hire other developers when the team needs to grow

If you have tried to build a startup in the past, whether successfully or not, that would be a big advantage.

If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, send us a brief note with a self-intro to: adrian@socialgrad.me. We look forward to building something great with you!

Us: eduCanon is a Boston accelerator funded company. We're building software that matters, trying to change the face of in-classroom education by giving teachers the tools they need to create interactive direct instruction lessons for the K12 market and deliver guided video content to students. This is a technically challenging project with lots of hard problems. We're looking for a summer intern to build an awesome product as an addition to our three-man team:

Ben was a teacher with Teach for America before matriculating to MIT Sloan to fully realize eduCanon's potential. Swaroop was a senior data analyst at Kaiser before joining eduCanon full time. Before that, he worked for a number of startups in SF on social media and marketing. John was a developer in Los Angeles working at a startup, building cool stuff like cloud-based file processing services.

You: Smart and gets things done.

- Your skills are broad and deep. You know at least one server-side language very well and feel comfortable on the front-end too. You know what a VCS is and how to use one well. - You've coded at least one thing you're proud of, and enjoy programming. - You're a passionate nerd.

Benefits:

- super exciting downton Boston workspace! - money! - very flat structure--your ideas count!

There are over 500 million printers worldwide. And still, printing is one of the worst experiences in technology. Help us turning an insanely annoying technology into something that's simple and fun to use. ezeep's Cloud-Managed Printing revolutionizes the work flow.

We're wiping-away the past 20 years of printing infrastructure, replacing it with a radically-new technology that will transform how people in organizations print. This means we're dealing with complex networking, document processing and driver issues, as well as distributed and fault tolerant systems.

In the offered position you'll be working on both, the client and the server side of the ezeep platform. You'll be highly involved in moving forward the broader client-server architecture that's underpinning our system. We don't put a years of experience label on this position, but we expect you to be a Python ninja who lives and breathes PEP-20.

Here are a few things we're looking for:

• You're a Python ninja
• You have a deep, low-level, understanding of computer networks
• You know your way around the shell and know how to use git
• You know about software design patterns and when to apply them
• You've worked with Django or similar MVC frameworks before
• You have experience with data base design (MySQL, Redis)

Things that would be awesome:

• Basic understanding of CUPS
• Some experience with Objective-C and the Cocoa Framework
• Experience with Linux package distribution

77SPARX Studio was founded in 2012 by MIT and Wharton alumni and parents who saw a need for quality kid’s games and “digital toys” for iOS and Android devices. At 77SPARX Studio, we envision a future where smart mobile devices are an integral part of every child’s life, and we are creating quality kid’s products to meet that vision.

We have built award-winning products that are not only popular with kids and parents alike, but also help kids develop core skills. Our products have been played over 35 million times by over 1 million kids all over the world! Check out Puzzingo on the Apple and Google Play stores and see for yourself.

We are looking for an outstanding software developer who has a passion for making great games and digital toys for kids. As a software developer, you will have a hand in redefining the way a whole new generation of children play. Your primary responsibility is to deliver well-engineered software that is a joy for kids to play. In addition, you will assist in all aspects of development from ideation and conception, testing, and maintenance. You will also be delivering products for both iOS and Android devices.

If you are someone who likes kid’s games, or if you are someone who is excited to create something that kids all around the world will wake up in the morning and ask for, then this is for you!

If interested or have any questions, send us an email at info@77sparx.com. Please include your resume and links to any games you may have developed in the past.

Required Qualifications:

• Has creativity, versatility, and a passion for kid’s toys, media, and gaming • Enjoys a fast-paced, challenging, and entrepreneurial environment • Has a solid background and experience in software engineering, software design, and object-oriented programming

Desired Qualifications:

• Has experience delivering commercial-quality games (Have something in the app stores? Tell us about it!) • Has experience with gaming technologies such as Flash Action Script, Lua Scripting, Corona SDK, Cocos2D, or Unity3D

This is a great opportunity for you to get in on the ground floor of the emerging world of mobile gaming for kids – an industry that is exploding. Besides, wouldn’t it be amazing to tell your friends – “Yes, I built the app that your kid is playing!” There is really nothing more gratifying than seeing the smile on kids’ faces that came from playing your app.

TakkTile is developing tactile sensors for many applications including Robotics !

We are looking for talented hands-on people to join the TakkTeam.

We frequently need smart and motivated people to contribute to short term projects. If you’re a looking for a summer job in Boston area focused on robotics, or a recent engineering undergrad looking to get experience on cutting edge projects, we want to hear from you.

Areas include:

Electronics design
Mechanical design
Mechatronics
Rubber molding and casting
Documentation and tutorials
Community and web development
Project support

Eos is a seed stage, technology-driven bank (backed by Sequoia Capital and Kaszek Ventures) based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. We will be targeting Brazilian consumers in the personal finance space with a innovative customer-centric strategy.

We are very early development and have plenty of interesting problems to work on. Chance to shape architecture decisions and learn new things. Open to distributed team or face to face in Sao Paulo. Portuguese a plus but not required.

Indicative technologies / frameworks:

• Modern full stack web frameworks (Rails, Django, etc.)
• Front-end JavaScript MVC frameworks (Ember.js, Angular.js)
• iPhone (Objective-C) or Android (Java) experience
• Functional programming (e.g., Clojure, Erlang)
• JVM (Java, Scala, JRuby)
• Test driven development (TDD) - automated unit / functional / integration testing
• REST API-based modular architecture / service oriented design
• Messaging architectures (RabbitMQ, AMPQ)
• SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• NoSQL databases (Redis, Mongo, Cassandra, HBase, Riak)
• Continuous Integration (Jenkins, Travis)
• Managing cloud infrastructure as code (Linux, Amazon EC2 with Chef)

Dare to solve big problems

Campus Bubble is changing the way university communities collaborate, communicate, and share on the web. Facebook is not suited for interaction with professors and peers in an academic, co-curricular capacity. Campus Bubble allows users to create Bubbles for their groups to begin discussions, add files, edit documents, assign tasks and more. Bubbles gain followers by posting content publicly, fostering cross-campus exploration.

In the Spring of 2012, Emory University licensed Campus Bubble LLC for the build, beta release, and Fall launch of Emory Bubble (complete with iOS and Android apps). Help us launch, test, and ship our next version as we scale to new universities.

Be a crucial part of a small team

Be part of a founding team with varied backgrounds, skill-sets, worldviews, and one thing in common: a passion for improving the college experience for students, faculty, and administrators. Join our small team and have a huge hand in shaping our product, culture, and strategy while working in a fun, collaborative environment in sunny Atlanta, GA.

We take great pride in the quality of our product design and cutting edge Node.JS and MongoDB stack. We are detail-orientated product people relentlessly striving for the highest standard possible. Check out a preview of the app here: emorybubble.com/beta.

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We’re looking for experienced developers who love to write, delete, and ship code. You will be one of the first full-time developers we hire, so your work will have a large impact on the future of our platform. As our team grows, your role could evolve into a VP of Engineering.

We prefer that you have at least a few of the following traits:

A degree in engineering, CS, Physics, Math, Statistics or Philosophy – and a strong track record of interesting projects. Experience writing software for a startup or large tech company and a portfolio that demonstrates your technical chops. Familiarity with security, privacy, and integration with APIs for external data. Hacker mentality – ability to code at all levels of the stack, from sysadmin to CSS. We offer paid salary, meaningful equity, and a unique opportunity to work with phenomenal advisers, investors, designers, and developers.

Don’t live in town but are willing to relocate? We’re happy to pay your way to Hotlanta for an interview, day at the office, and free lodging.

We are the "Kayak.com" for buses and trains.

We are looking for techies with mapping, graph (theory), and data science skills. For end users, we return searches that makes connections out of disconnected data and for bus carriers, we make sense out of big amounts of apparently unintelligibly data.

Musikara is developing an online musical collaboration platform to enable geographically dispersed musicians to create music together in real-time over the Internet. Our founders studied and researched network music performance, music information retrieval, and algorithmic music during their time at MIT and Stanford.

We are on track for funding this summer and are seeking interns/part-time/full-time engineers. Someone with a strong CS background and some industry experience is desirable. We are looking for developers interested in machine learning/machine listening, peer-to-peer networking/distributed systems, audio/video streaming, digital audio signal processing, and music information retrieval. Some of the tools we like are Python, Node.js, C++, Linux, Cocoa, JavaScript, and Web Audio. The ideal candidate would be motivated to learn and use modern programming tools and techniques, and is passionate about music and collaboration.

Are you looking to push the state-of-the-art of the mobile user experience? Vioby is reinventing mobile shopping -- integrating voice-interactive technology with human sales intelligence to deliver a great user experience for millions of users. We're an early-stage startup founded by a team of successful serial entrepreneurs and are looking for great engineers.

Skills we're looking for:

- MS or Ph.D. with emphasis on natural language processing, computational linguistics or machine learning - Background in statistical analysis. - Demonstrated ability to advance and develop the principles behind NLP software. - Experience in developing dialog systems is a plus - Ability to program and use data analytics and unstructured software tools, e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, NoSQL, Hadoop, Python, R

Early stage startup seeks rockstar co-founder and VP of Engineering or CTO to lead product development. We are building a cloud services product with a consumer device component that has the potential to become a technology platform standard. This is a great opportunity to join a fun team at the ground level and help shape technology consumption for the massive untapped market of SMB customers.

The ideal candidate will be a technical leader who is as handy with cloud architecture and code as they are with building teams and inspiring vision. Desired experiences include enterprise cloud, IT infrastructure, SMB, and startup environments. Must enjoy reducing ambiguous issues down to their essence, and solving hard problems with simple elegant solutions. If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, send us a brief note with a self-intro to kevin@easy.ly. We look forward to building something great with you!

Position Overview:

Develop EyeWire.org, a crowd-sourced neuroscience game that empowers the general public to

make scientific discoveries.

Full stack engineer. Does database, game logic, game design, front end development. Heavy

Javascript.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions**):

Web front-end development and minor IT responsibilities. All database design. RESTful API design. Design of novel and fluid user interaction tools. Writing all server side game logic on eyewire.org, primarily in PHP with some components in NodeJS. Working heavily with web technologies like WebGL and websockets,

Supervision Received:

Guidance from Sebastian Seung, Professor of Computational Neuroscience at MIT. Candidate must be able to work independently but support will be provided when needed.

Supervision Exercised:

Candidate may work with MIT UROPS and interns.

Qualifications & Skills:

Must be proficient at the following technologies: Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, WebGL, NodeJS

ClearROI is a cloud B2B Enterprise Software startup. We’re changing the way B2B companies go-to-market by articulating the financial value of a product/service.

I am looking for a Founding Engineer (employee #3) to build a SaaS based platform. This is an exciting opportunity to join on the ground level, architect a cloud platform, and receive significant equity.

Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus. This position is ideally in the SF bay area starting June 30, but can be flexible.

Michael (MIT 2001)

Chatango.com is a small and growing start-up founded by an MIT alum, with a large, vibrant and interesting community of users. We are a no hype company -- just a desire to make quality tools driven by user's needs. We are looking for a coder to work on our group chat tools.

What we offer:

• Work on innovative technology: we have custom TCP servers, and web clients that have persistent websocket connections to them.

• Contract for a discrete task, then continue full time in the summer or part-time during the semester, depending on how well we fit. Competitive salary.

• Our office is in San Francisco. If part time, remote work is possible.

• Talk to our current MIT and Berkeley interns about his experience at Chatango.

What we are looking for:

• You are fluent in C/C++, Java and/or Python.

• You understand asynchronous, event-driven programming

• You the purpose of object oriented programming • Familiarity with HTML5 and CSS3 standards is a big plus • Familiarity with Android and development on Linux is a plus, but not necessary.

We're a fun and enthusiastic team in Kendall Square looking to transform the world of healthy eating. We're currently hiring a CTO, and part and full-time marketing and programming interns.

We are looking for a website developer with a background in Ruby on Rails to join the team. This is a paid position.

We are creating a platform that unites charities, corporate sponsors, and normal people, for the good of society.

Working remotely (or as a second job) is also possible.

Please message scannon@mit.edu if interested!

We are a small engineering team developing a high tech fitness product with the potential to completely disrupt its industry niche. We are seeking a co-founder who is eager to help develop an innovative new technology from the ground up.

We are currently located in Charleston, SC but may be temporarily relocating to Boston for a business accelerator program this summer. Ideally, you are relatively flexible in terms of relocating. Full-time availability in Boston this summer is a must.

We are looking for someone with solid experience in power electronics (electric motors + drives), embedded systems, API development, and web applications. An interest in fitness / resistance training or knowledge of human physiology is a plus.

Are you looking to push the state-of-the-art of the mobile user experience? Vioby is reinventing mobile shopping -- integrating voice-interactive technology with human sales intelligence to deliver a great user experience for millions of users. We're an early-stage startup founded by a team of successful serial entrepreneurs and are looking for great engineers.

Skills we're looking for:

- BS in Computer Science, and 5 years of experience.

- Experience in noSQL/mongoDB/Solr/ElasticSearch

- Able to install servers infrastructure, tools and applications.

- AWS knowledge is an advantage.

- Strong Java and Linux skills, and capable with other environments.

- Beans/Servlets/JSP/JDBC/Perl

- Data mining, R - plus.

- Attention to detail as well as system understanding.