[TYPES/announce] The Plutus team is hiring

[Philip Wadler]

IOG, formerly known as IOHK, is hiring two new members for the Plutus team,
currently led by Manuel Chakravarty and Michael Peyton-Jones. One of the
posts is for a new leader, but don't worry, Manuel and Michael are both
staying; the other post is someone to work on developer relations and
communications. People working with the Plutus team include myself, Simon
Thompson, and John Hughes. Plutus is a library for Haskell that provides
smart contracts for Cardano. Ada, the coin of Cardano, is (as of last week)
the fourth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalisation, at USD$32
billion.

Details below. Let me know if you have any questions. Go well, -- P
Software Engineering Lead - Plutus

We are searching for a Software Engineer to lead our Plutus team. The
Plutus team is building the core of Cardano’s smart contract functionality
on the bedrock of functional programming languages. We are an
interdisciplinary team who do original R&D and turn it into production
systems.

In the past few years, the Plutus team has:

   - Published five peer-reviewed papers with top academic researchers
   - Designed and implemented three programming languages
   - Formalized the semantics of two of those languages using Agda
   - Helped to improve the ability of Agda to generate usable Haskell output
   - Created novel compilation techniques for data types
   - Written a GHC proposal, which is now being taken into implementation
   work
   - Implemented a compiler for a subset of Haskell as a GHC plug-in
   - Used statistical modeling to infer evaluation cost models
   - Participated in the design and implementation of the Cardano ledger
   extensions to support smart contracts.

Such a heady and complex mixture of research, development, and design work
needs a competent leader to keep it all working well. If that sounds like
fun to you, drop us a line!
https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/DC4A9703F1/
Developer Relations Specialist - Plutus

The Cardano ecosystem is expanding and software developer interest is
increasing rapidly, so we are looking for a Developer Relations Specialist
for the Plutus smart contract programming platform. You will help build,
nurture and manage new relationships within established blockchain and
smart contract development communities, especially Ethereum.

This role will put you at the forefront of an exciting developer ecosystem
at a crucial time in its development, winning and onboarding partners,
feeding any requirements and proposals back into the business, and helping
rapidly expand a healthy, productive Cardano developer base.

To enjoy this role you will be someone who is passionate about blockchain
technologies and the real problems they can address. You will have a
proactive, problem-solving attitude, and enjoy working with customers and
representing IOG at conferences, meetups, podcasts, etc.
https://apply.workable.com/io-global/j/965433F163/
.\ Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
./\ School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
/  \ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/
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