Jobs
If you are interested in starting your own company and are looking for funding over the summer check out the summer incubators. Below that are summer internships at startups. If you are a startup that wants to get a job posted, please fill out this form.
If you are a student that wants to get your information sent to Berkeley based startups please fill out this form.
Berkeley Startup Job Posts (for Engineers)
Name: TheFind
Location: Mountain View and/or San Francisco
Contact: MobileHR@thefind.com (mention this posting)
Target: Sr. Software Engineers; Crawlers and Android/iPhone App Development
Company Description:
TheFind is a privately held company in the Bay Area, with offices in both Mountain View and San Francisco, breaking new ground in shopping search by using machine learning and data mining. We have solved cutting-edge problems in information extraction for shopping with patented technology. We successfully crawl a billion webpages and use automated machine learning methods to do product extraction and search relevance. We are focusing on all areas of shopping search like comprehensiveness, price comparison, coupons & deals, reviews, local shopping search, eco-friendly shopping, hot trends, personalized and social shopping, visual shopping search, mobile shopping etc.
The vision of TheFind is to become the starting point for shopping search on the web and mobile.
Some Stats about TheFind:
- Growth at more than 100% in both 2008 and 2009. Already profitable (rare thing in today’s economy)
- Targeting a huge ($5.2B) market of online shopping advertising spend. Funded by Redpoint, Lightspeed, Bain Capital Ventures
- Leadership team from Stanford, Princeton, UCB, Harvard, IIT, BITS Pilani, Yahoo/Inktomi/Altavista, Oracle, Microsoft, VMware, eBay, Verity
- Comscore June 2010 ranks us #2 in the list of shopping engines.
- 300+ million products, 500,000 stores.
- Largest coupon search index, largest local shopping search index
Job Qualifications:
Crawler Engineer
We’re looking for a top notch crawler engineer. We have a web scale distributed crawler which crawls a billion web pages. We encounter some unique problems in crawling like crawling dynamic websites, very deep crawl, preventing crawler traps etc. One part of the crawler is a distributed file system, which we’ve built from scratch to store billions of objects in a distributed fault tolerant way. Another component is a web scale duplicate detection system for which we’ve been granted a patent. Your responsibility will be to manage and build upon all these systems. You’ll work on both content analysis (trap detection, web graph mining etc.), and actual crawling (scheduling, politeness, storage system etc.)
If you have experience in building or managing a large scale crawler, that’s a huge plus. If you’ve architected high transaction distributed systems written in C++, you might be the right person for the job. You will be the sole owner of the crawler, and primary responsibility will center on improvements in performance and scalability of the crawler. You’ll work with the systems architects and CTO as needed to identify crawler enhancements, design solutions, development and deployment to production.
Essential Skills:
- Expert in developing, maintaining and troubleshooting C++ systems on linux
- Strong interest and/or experience in distributed systems
- Experience with web standards and protocols like HTTP, robots.txt, javascript etc.
- An ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Android/iPhone App Developer
We’re looking for talented hands-on engineers to join a small, but rapidly expanding mobile-apps team with both iPhone/iPad and Android experience:
- Experience with network programming, ideally using a lower-level API like BSD sockets
- Experience handling XML and JSON data
- Experience writing multi-threaded programs
- Experience with object-oriented design
- Familiarity with the HTTP network protocol
- Ideally, experience using the Google Analytics API
- At least a basic understanding of HTML, HTML5 CSS, and other web technologies
Candidate must have a mix of skills from both OSs and multiple Android handsets.
- Must have experience developing apps for Android 1.6 and 2.1
- Ideally has experience developing apps for Android 2.2
- Must have experience with the Java programming language
- Must have experience with Android Developments Tools and the Eclipse IDE
- Must have shipped at least one Android app via the Android Market
- Must have Objective-C programming experience, using either the Mac OS Cocoa APIs or the iPod’s Cocoa Touch APIs
- Must be familiar with iPhone OS 3.X APIs & ideally 4.X too
- Must be capable of using the Xcode and Interface Builder tools
- BS/MS in Computer Science with strong software engineering background.
- Several years of relevant industry experience (preferably in consumer web/mobile apps)
Other Information:
We have competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, 401K etc. You’ll be joining a group of experienced folks who love to innovate.
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Name: Mobtown.it
Location: San Francisco and/or Berkeley
Contact: ramy dodin, r@mobtown.it
Target: Full-time, CEO
Company Description:
Mobtown is the hottest analytics solution for mobile. We built it, but are moving in another direction, but rather than just jettisoning it, we’re looking for an enterprising CEO to take charge of it and lead it to victory. This is a startup in a box, you get to start with a launched product with active users and paying customers.
Job Qualifications: you have to be so relentless you scare people.
Other information: this is a hard job but will payoff big.
Founders campus affiliation: Ex-Berkeley
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A (seed stage) venture-funded startup is looking for web development/computer science developers and interns to join the foundation of the team. You should understand internet technologies and building new media applications. You will be working on core development of consumer facing websites and have a chance to participate in the formative stages of design and architecture as well.
Specifically, you would have:
* Completed or working towards a B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field
* Strong programming skills (C/C++/Java/PHP)
* Familiarity with relational database concepts and design
* Familiarity with internet / Web 2.0 / Social Networking / Social Media applications
* Experience in building photo-centric sites or digital image manipulation (nice to have)
* Excellent problem solving and analytical skills; be self-motivated
If you’re interested in applying or have any questions, please contact Namita (namita@bhasin.com).
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Name: ScrapA.com
Location: Berkeley
Contact: Chris Lavin, chris.lavin@gmail.com
Target: Engineer- Undergrad
Type: Summer Internship- Paid
Company Description: Scrapa is a new startup being launched by two MBA students at Haas. Scrapa is focused on finding a new way to open up scrapbooking to the masses. Scrapbooking is a $3 billion a year business selling paper and supplies to mothers. The hobby is incredibly expensive and time consuming. Scrapa has created (preview.scrapa.com) an online scrapbook creation tool where users will be able to quickly assemble a scrapbooking page (15 minutes versus several hours). When they click print we’ll print out all the layers of paper needed for each page, and using digital cutters we’ll cut out all the shapes. We’ll send the kit (essentially a model airplane kit for moms) to our customer who will assemble it in a matter of minutes.
Job Description:
* Develop Testing Tools for rapid testing and iteration of product
* Refine current application
* Work with founders in customer development
Job Qualifications: The ideal candidate would have web development experience and have some experience with Flex and Flash development.
Other information: The job can be done part time, but we are ideally looking for someone willing to do something more than a quick coding project. We will offer cash (We are just graduating ourselves so the amount we can afford will depend on funding) and equity.
Founders campus affiliation: Graduating MBA candidates from Haas.
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Name: Fresh Funk Media
Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Peter Chang, peter78@gmail.com
Target: Engineer- Undergrad
Type: Full-time
Company Description: Startup specializing in iPhone applications including games and entertainment.
Job Description: Looking for a recent grad (or current student) with experience in computer graphics to do character modeling and animation. This person will be a partner to in my scrappy startup. Money, equity and pain all split evenly. 
This job will require a passion for building on the mobile platform. I’m also looking for someone with the desire to start their own thing up and not afraid to fail a few times before succeeding.
Job Qualifications: EECS or CS major who’s taken CS 184 and/or has a background in graphics. Experience using Maya, Lightwave or any other 3-D modeling software a plus. Experience with Open GL and Open GL ES also a big plus.
Founders campus affiliation: Current alum. EECS Class of ‘00. I’ve worked at several successful startups in Silicon Valley. Experience in mobile applications, data mining, search, web applications, and ecommerce.
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Location: San Francisco, CA
Contact: Joanne Wan, internship@gigaom.com
Target: Engineer- Undergrad
Type: Part-time
Company Description: The GigaOM Network (www.GigaOMNetwork.com) is a leading provider of publications and events for the technology and entrepreneurial markets worldwide. Founded by award-winning journalist Om Malik, The GigaOM Network is an online publishing company whose network of news sites reaches more than 2 million readers worldwide and provides news and insight on the developments disrupting the world of technology. The GigaOM Network includes seven award-winning sites: GigaOM covers the business of broadband, VoIP, infrastructure, mobile and wireless; WebWorkerDaily covers the future of work in a web world; NewTeeVee covers the business of online video; Earth2Tech covers the business of green technology; OStatic is a web application, news site and community looking at open-source solutions for business; jkOnTheRun offers news and insight on mobile devices; and TheAppleBlog is a leading source of information for Apple users. The GigaOM Network also produces industry-leading events, including annual conferences: Structure, Mobilize, NewTeeVee Live and Green:Net.
Availability and Compensation:
- This is a part-time position with the expectation to work out of GigaOM’s San Francisco office at least 2 times per week
- The position is paid and compensation is tied to experience
Please send resume and an email outlining how your experiences would fit the position to internship@gigaom.com
Campus Affiliation: Berkeley alumni 2002
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Name: PitchFarm.com
Contact: Sid Krishnan, sid@pitchfarm.com
Target: Engineer – Undegrad
Job Description -
We are offering substantial equity for the right candidate and an opportunity to join a fast-paced environment where you can take responsibility to create a product for market. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the entire back-end infrastructure for the site and its MySQL integration and will be asked to work directly with the founders to implement robust and scalable back ends through your extensive experience with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and AJAX.
Campus Affiliation: former Cal grad
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Summer Incubators
Application deadline: March 25, 2009
Berkeley Startsup: Popcuts
Succesful Startups: Justin.tv, Reddit, Loopt, Zenter, Weebly, Scribd
Application Deadline: March 21, 2009
Applications deadline: April 9, 2009
Application Deadline: April 3, 2009
Berkeley Startups: Autotagger
Application deadline: None
Qualification: Must be located in New York or Boston
Also: List of companies out of incubator programs here.
Startup Summer Internships
Application deadline: April 15, 2009
True-backed Berkeley Startups: KISS Metrics, WeGame
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These job opportunities look promising, and Berkley’s entrepreneurial spirit seems to make it a great place to study. Thanks for the information.