My understanding is we do sponsor H1s. The vast majority of nationalities are fine, however we do have on-premises computing on a Department of Energy facility, and they bar citizens of the following countries from being granted an account on their systems: https://www.state.gov/state-sponsors-of-terrorism/ so a candidate with those nationalities would be at a disadvantage.

Unfortunately for reasons outside our control, remote work is only possible from residents of the following US states:

Arizona

California

Colorado

Florida

Hawaii

Maryland

New Mexico

Texas

Virginia

Washington

Washington DC

Here's a talk we gave at Influx Days on how my team uses InfluxDB that also gives background to the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osy0dvFM674

The mission of the telescope is to carry out the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) and so if you search for Rubin LSST you'll get even better stuff I'm sure.

PS not a talk but here's my favorite video we have ever put out, it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GicDYZXMboc "We'll be counting stars" as the song goes...

- women work here - in technical and scientific roles

You are welcome to tell your friend to reach out, I am always happy to talk to fellow women in the field so I can learn what they are looking for and let them know when the right fit appears.

And now for something completely different.. (drumroll)... astronomy!

We're building a big telescope to carry out the biggest, faster, widest survey in optical astronomy. I run a small devops team in a much larger data management division - we do current data services work - lots of Python (3) data services (FastAPI) running on Kubernetes on Google Cloud and on-prem (ie sometimes in... actually clouds).

I have a number of refugees from well-known dotcoms in my team, here's why they tell me they work here despite, you know, the universe not handing out stock options:

* Sustained and humane software development, with opportunities to refactor code for incremental improvements and extend your codebase over multiple years

* No pager. If you want to turn off your phone after hours, fine (I keep mine on because fixing telescopes is actually fun to me but there's no on-call)

* No doing interviews as your job.

* 100% open source with many opportunities to upstream (all our code is on Github: https://github.com/lsst-sqre )

* Surprisingly (for academia) current toolchain and coding practices

* Benefits, stability w/ opportunity for growth. My full-stack engineer joined 8 years ago and is (still) doing better work every year. My most recent hire is a security engineer who has been with me longer than the average dotcom tenure and seems to think it's Christmas every time I tell him he's allowed to tidy up code we already have in production.

* Pay is decent, more so if you're not paying Bay Area rent. Not as much as you'd make as a Senior Engineer at Google. But:

* Nobody is the product. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

If you're interested: https://ls.st/square-job . And if you are a US taxpayer, thank you for funding our scientific mission!

And now for something completely different... if watching the Fortnite black hole has given you the feeling that maybe you would like to find an actual earth-killing asteroid before it blows up our map...

At the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (https://www.lsst.org) we are building an astronomical observatory that will map the sky at unprecedented speed and depth.

We are looking for a senior security engineer with strong devops chops (or alternatively, a senior devops engineer with strong security credentials). Less exciting version here: https://ls.st/zc5

This is academia, so salaries are not what you are used to up there in SV, but it's a chance to contribute to an awesome, if not historic, science project.

Cloud engineering where clouds are the enemy! I'm at a major astronomy project to build a telescope that can observe the whole sky twice a week (lsst.org). Our Education and Public Outreach folks down the hallway from me are planning a bunch of cool projects for the general public, kids, and citizen scientists and need someone to come up with how it could all be done using current technology stacks.

So! You get to be one of the first people to learn about the earth-killing asteroid and you get to work on something that your annoying uncle can understand when you go home for Christmas and he asks "So what do you do all day with that computer?"

This is a technical leadership position and as the team is still ramping up it has to be on-site, but Tucson is a great town to live in (they don't call us "The Portland of the SouthWest" for nuthin') and you can buy a house for what it takes you to rent a closet in SV :-) If you need a visa that is fine, we're a quasi-academic shop and our HR is used to this kind of thing.

Don't let the incredibly sucky job application site put you off, it has nothing to do with what the rest of us do :-) Apply here http://ls.st/bo0 (I'm sorry, academia will have cool recruiting practices in, oh, 2045 or so). If you have questions drop me a line (email in the profile).

PS. You get to work with @astropixie in case you're a fan

I [female] would lose 5% in time over a median guy just by slower screwdriving, never mind cognitive performance. This is why I assemble Ikea furniture with a power screwdriver - it's not easy work if you're not used to it.

And it can create a cognitive dissonance if you allow people to modify half-assedly - eg. it annoys me that I have to ask Siri for help when I have set Siri to be an Australian male voice.

Having at least two very accomplished and (culturally and organisationally senior) people routinely "model" reasonable review behaviour can be stunningly effective.

Also this is an area where frequent team conversations about what good code is outside a review situation helps to build a certain culture. It helps step away from nitpicking and arguing.

Assuming their input data is actually correct, I will speculate they are calculating the energy cost of the entire lithium battery production from raw materials, such as extracting lithium from mineral deposits, the majority of which would happen before the materials arrived at the Tesla factory.

I also expect Elon Musk knows what his electricity bill is. Given his investment in green technologies and his general success in delivering projects, I would be rather surprised if he advertised a solar factory if there was a chance he would be out by 4 orders of magnitude on how much power he would need.

If the answer is "one", then do a git repo for one. The answer you should ask yourself is "when I look at the git log, which history(ies) would it make sense to see together".

>age 22-30: graduate school, possibly with a bit of work, living on a stipend of $1800 per month >age 30-35: working as a post-doc for $30,000 to $35,000 per year

Actually the median total time to degree is far lower for STEM than it is for other fields. TTD in Physics and Astronomy is 7.0 years compared to 10.2 in the Humanities

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf06312/nsf06312.pdf

>compensation for executives at public companies is reported every year.

Yes, becaues Forbes executive positions are SO much more open to women that academic scientific careers, it makes total sense to compare them.

>Consider taking the same high IQ and work ethic, going into business, and being put on the fast track at a company such as General Electric. Rather than being fired at age 44, this is about the time that she will be handed ever-larger divisions to operate, with ever-larger bonuses and stock options.

A tenured academic has the same chance of being fired as GE employee. Or it's just as easy to be a postdoc as a GE stock-option executive. Yeah right.

> At age 22, the schoolteacher is earning a living wage and can begin making plans to get married and have children.

Because every woman aspires to have babies at 22.

> "I'm not sure if I'll be able to get any job at all.

Note that when a grad student says that, there is ALWAYS an implicit "... on what I would prefer doing".

Unemployment rate for Physics PhDs is just under 10% - this is rough the same for any occupation in the "professional" sector if you consider involuntary part-time workers (not many part time science jobs)

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/technology/t...

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat21.htm

> A woman who is smart and organized enough to earn a PhD in science would also likely be smart and organized enough to find a higher-income co-parent. What is the profit potential when suing someone earning more than $250,000 per year?

Yes, because (a) women use their career skills in finding husbands and (b) being a physicist and suing a rich ex for alimony are comparable choices - after all, why else would you be marrying? You have to be effing kidding me.

> The most serious concern is that the field that a youngster found fascinating at age 20 will no longer be fascinating after 20 or 25 years.

Yes, because only scientists get bored with their careers. Every person who decided to do advertising sales on the other hand, is still having a blast.

> A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals

Right, guys do science cause they are too dumb to know better. And people become petty criminals as a career choice. And don't forget women don't do anything as pointless as playing video games (I mean ha ha ha, next you're going to tell me that women PLAY videogames, imagine).

Look, the postdoc system ubiquitous in STEM is exploitative. Every person working in science, man or woman, knows this. And it's a perverse outcome of a funding and success model based on citation rate.

But to say women don't go into science because they're too smart for that is the same as saying that African Americans don't go into IT because they too smart want to hang around geeks and carry a pager. It's insulting to everybody concerned and completely and utterly inaccurate.

1,000W bulbs: Just Say No.

So how does one get from Millbrae to SFO if the BART is not running? (asks the occasional visitor)