Ken_At_EM

Erdos Miller | Data Engineering & ML Roles ($120K-$160K + Benefits) | Remote (US) or Hybrid (Houston, TX) | https://erdosmiller.com

We're building technology that sends data through mud - literally. Our telemetry systems operate at extreme depths, temperatures, and pressures, serving both traditional drilling and pioneering sustainable energy applications like geothermal power. As a bootstrapped and profitable company of 35 people, we offer startup-like challenges with established business stability.

Two key roles we're hiring for:

1. Data Engineering:

- Build scalable platform monitoring thousands of drilling devices

- Create anomaly detection, performance monitoring and predictive maintenance systems

2. Machine Learning:

- Develop signal processing/denoising models for wireless telemetry

- Build ML systems for real-time signal recovery in high-noise environments

- Build data pipeline for continuous expansion of data, benchmarking and model deployment

Tech: Backend: Python, PyTorch. Frontend: NextJS, TypeScript, React frontend

Why join:

- Direct impact on real-world systems in a small team

- Unique hardware/software technical challenges

- Growth-focused culture with no red tape

- Help transition drilling tech to sustainable energy

Benefits: Health/dental/vision, 401(k) match, PTO, remote flexibility

Email ken (-at-) erdosmiller.com with your resume and why you're excited about these challenges.

Prefer US Work Authorization. Open to Canada, Europe. No agencies.

Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning/ML Pipelines and getting familiar with the AI tool ecosystem so my team and I can put our commercially successful wireless telemetry receivers into overdrive.

Teaching myself CNNs/Machine Learning to put our wireless telemetry receiving capability into overdrive.

We build downhole electronics. High temperature (175C/350F operation) devices. Multiple circuit boards, sensors, analog and digital, tons of firmware.

Why is this comment getting downvoted?

This echos my experience with Supabase exactly. We migrated to a similar solution for the same reasons.

Computers.

I would argue that this is a “microcomputer” level impact and is as big as a productivity increase as the advent of the PC.

I would consider the iPhone a lesser productivity impact than the PC.

This was never what “fake it til you make it” meant.

Thanks!

Awesome. Seems like a solid building block.

Very cool!

GUIs are Pythons greatest weakness. We need a solid electron/tauri clone with a JS front end and a Python backend and good deployment tools.

If you’re on HN and on the O&G industry we should probably chat.

A lot of people are saying it’s best to go to school when you’re young, that it’s easier because you don’t have a family and other responsibilities.

The same is true of starting a business.

Maybe this is a ton of fun for them?

Almost no one has too busy of a schedule to not squeeze in a 30-60 minute conversation over coffee within a month.

If I ask someone to coffee and their response is, next month? I’d take it as a clear signal that the content of our conversation or our relationship is not important.

You’re right.

Secondary point, if you can’t make time to have coffee for someone for an entire month, it probably isn’t important enough to do, ever.

I mean what’s missing here is a 2D game maker / interactive app maker that anyone can use and trivially deploy to the web, no?

Yeah…my Model 3 loses way more than that in the Winter…I’d anecdotally wager a guess at 30%.

Flash really was that easy for so many people. Why isn’t there a true replacement?

It’s a red flag to me if someone sends a resume in anything other than a PDF.

Why would you send your source code instead of your binary?

I like to say I go with the best operating system at the time. For most of my career that’s been macOS/X.

There was a time when I felt like what Windows had going on with Windows 7 was much better than what Apple had going on and I spent a few years primarily using a PC.

However, I’ve been back on Mac for years, and I feel like “advertisements in the start menu” indicates that Windows is going down a dark path.

I do have to keep a second PC around to use Windows as a lot of our engineering software is Windows specific, but I do most everything on the Mac.

I have to warn you that doing things myself has come with the constant guilt of “I should be training someone else to do this if I really want to grow” which is a little proverbially demon of conscience that sits there on my shoulder as I work.

I was a software developer prior to becoming a CEO, or whatever that title means, leading a company.

I’ve developed an internal cloud for managing our R&D data and processing batch research jobs in the cloud. I developed all of the signal processing algorithms and digital filters for our flagship software product.

I am also developing a time series data viewer for our industries specific data which I’ll probably have to hand off at some point.

What I try to avoid doing on my own is HR, Payroll, Finances, there are people much better suited to that and let’s be honest, we’re trying to innovate in technology, not accounting or HR (for the most part, excluding culture obviously which is critical)

Bootstrapped to $12M/year hardware and software (whole widget) product co. It took a long time, 13 years.

I have a strong feeling that if I could do it all over again I’d do it more of it myself for as long as I could until I absolutely had to hire.

People tend to underestimate how expensive of an investment it is to reach yourself how to hire, how to onboard, how to coach, and even when you know all that you can still easily spend 3-6 months of a professional salary figuring out someone doesn’t fit well in your organization.

Our products have been growing 50% per year for four years now and I’m still thinking of doing more myself and with my cofounders. (We’re all highly technical)

This does not describe our company. We want to hire developers.

If I don’t have to invest significantly in you to learn our code base I would be very happy to pay you as a freelancer to help us figure out bugs.

Your personality is also one that I would fight to get on our team.

Someone ELI5 why we shouldn't freak out about this, please.

I believe that Meta should invest into rebuilding trust before they invest into building VR/AR/Metaverse tech. Yes, that's an incredibly long road.

Just updated my profile, check out the link there.