Would you be interested in sponsoring H1B visas for qualified candidates?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
by saurabh20n on Thursday July 02, 2015 @07:32PM
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If the candidate is right, yes. Email us at: [email protected]
If your public funding so far is only $120K how can you recruit guys who make that much in a year ;-)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
by saurabh20n on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:49AM
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Indeed, YCombinator gave us the $120K.
Our total funding + revenues are much higher. You missed the part about Khosla Ventures, DARPA, and Fortune 500 contracts, and that we are already profitable :). Biology, especially when done through software, is a very profitable domain.
Biology is severely under-utilized. 20n (YC W15) fixes that using software predictions to create cells that produce valuable chemicals. We created a bacteria that eats sugar and produces acetaminophen -- the active ingredient of Tylenol. ps: This is the only living cell on the planet that produces acetaminophen.
20n is a YCombinator, DARPA, and Khosla Ventures backed, with existing Fortune 500 customers and incoming revenue. Our core technology is a data mining and machine learning platform for biological data. We routinely distribute using Spark, write approximation algorithms for NP-complete problems, and push the software predictions to robots that build the microbes. We are looking for algorithms experts who want to see their predictions create new life!
Full job descriptions:
* Data mining and NLP: http://20n.com/jobs.html#team:input
* Machine learning: http://20n.com/jobs.html#team:predict
* Computational Biology: http://20n.com/jobs.html#team:sequence