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Jane Street has an open visiting position to work with the type systems team
here at improving and formalizing various aspects of our extensions to OCaml.
This work continues along the lines of inquiry described in our recent ICFP
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and POPL
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papers allowing some manual memory management and guaranteeing data-race
freedom in OCaml -- all while remaining backward compatible. We've come so far,
and yet there's still so much to do, including designing a novel kind system
and figuring out an ergonomic and efficient way to have functions be
polymorphic over multiple runtime representations.
The Jane Street position is envisioned to sit between graduation from a PhD
program and the start of a tenure-track professorship at a research
institution. Candidates might already have a faculty offer in hand and be
taking a gap year, or they might be seeking a more traditional postdoc. The
visit can last one or two years. It will be research-focused, with a goal of
publishing several papers in top venues. The visitor will be able to see
firsthand how language improvements affect the 1,000+ OCaml programmers all
around us in our office. This will be a great opportunity at combining the
theoretical and practical aspects of research in our field.
Full details and next steps are at
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I'll be supervising this position. Happy to answer any questions -- just email!
Richard Eisenberg
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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