Summer Internship for Data Ninja @ Vertex Ventures
Vertex Ventures (www.vertexventures.com) is an early stage Venture Capital firm based in Palo Alto, CA. The firm focuses its investments on next generation internet infrastructure and enterprise enabling products and services. We are seeking a highly analytical data engineer who can research specific categories of technology marketplaces, sift through mountains of unstructured data and develop a framework for identifying actionable trends and opportunities.
Open to both graduate and undergraduate candidates. Please submit inquiries to audra@vertexventures.com
Desired candidate attributes:
Pragmatic. Likes using what’s available to get the job complete vs pontificating the elegance of architecture.
Tenacious. Willingness to experiment, fail, and start again from step 0 – whether it was a 24hr cycle or a 1 week investment.
Prolific. Fiddled with Scala/Erlang/Python/Java/Angular/React/SQL/JSON/CSS/Hadoop/Spark/…?
Deep. Enjoy arguing the salient points of: Scala vs Erlang? Angular vs React? PC vs Mac? LoL vs Dota?
Cloudy. Giddy about spinning up terabytes of jobs across hundreds of nodes from the living room couch.