From : Adam Chlipala <adamc AT csail.mit.edu>

: Adam Chlipala <adamc AT csail.mit.edu> To : coq-club AT inria.fr

: coq-club AT inria.fr Subject : [Coq-Club] Interested in being paid to hack on Coq full-time at MIT?

: [Coq-Club] Interested in being paid to hack on Coq full-time at MIT? Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 09:42:41 -0400

[Coq-Club] Interested in being paid to hack on Coq full-time at MIT? , Adam Chlipala, 07/17/2015 Message not available Re: [Coq-Club] Interested in being paid to hack on Coq full-time at MIT? , 1337 777, 07/17/2015

, Adam Chlipala, 07/17/2015

Hi everyone,I'm writing to start conversations with people who might be interested in working full-time on improving the Coq implementation. So far, such positions have mostly been in France. It seems likely, however, that one will be opening up at MIT, my institution in the Boston (USA) area.The location wouldn't be the only difference. We expect that the pay scale would be significantly above that for American graduate-student research assistants (or Inria researchers, for that matter).Administrative details are still being finalized, but we expect that an engineer in this position would have some official Inria affiliation and some official MIT affiliation. Some time would be spent in Paris, getting up to speed with the workings of the Coq project, but most time would be at MIT.The basic purpose of this position is to create a stronger bridge between the Coq development team and the growing user base of Coq in the USA. The engineer would be expected to spend time working closely with users to understand the best improvements to make to Coq. Those users would be in academia (naturally leaning toward work in my group and elsewhere at MIT, but also including other institutions) and industry. In fact, it is likely that some funding for the position will come from companies that are using Coq and wish to have some help from experts in auditing their Coq code.We expect that the specifics of the position will be settled in the next few weeks. In the mean time, I'd like to start discussing with any candidates for the position. Might that be you? The effective requirements would be:1) Should probably be an expert user of Coq, but prior experience with the Coq implementation is not required. We'll be looking for a strong record contributing to large code bases in OCaml or similar languages.2) Interest in spending a substantial amount of time based out of the USA. If everything goes well, this could become a de facto permanent position, so Europeans looking to return to Europe in a few years will definitely be considered, though somehow the position may be more appealing to both sides for someone who is happy to be in the USA long-term.3) Almost certainly a strong candidate would have a PhD with a related thesis, but I won't give that as a hard requirement.I think this is an exciting time for Coq, as it moves from research prototype to essential real-world infrastructure, and we see this engineer position as sitting at the center of that phenomenon!Please let me know by reply e-mail if you're (tentatively) interested in a position like this, which would probably start in late 2015 or early 2016.