ok but a lot of coding used to be fighting package managers, discovering bugs in dependencies, dealing with deploy baloney, etc, not just "solving puzzles" or "architecting the backend"
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Precisely boring holes into the Earth (or other planets!) is critical to humanities survival and expansion. We make hardware and software tools that allow for precise real-time control of borehole construction.
Our tools are used in the Oil and Gas, Geothermal, Plug and Abandonment, and Horizontal Directional Drilling Industries.
We're always hiring: https://www.erdosmiller.com/careers
We build Measurement While Drilling (MWD) equipment — and we love it. That passion helped us capture the majority of the North American oil & gas market, and now it’s fueling our geothermal innovation, building underground navigation systems for the next generation of clean energy.
We’re now looking for a Data Wrangler to help us make smarter, faster decisions with our data. This role blends data engineering and data science: wrangling quirky file formats, structuring messy datasets, and turning it all into live tools that guide company strategy. Starts part-time with the opportunity to grow into a full-time, career-defining role. What you’ll do
Partner with the CEO + stakeholders to translate business needs into pipelines, dashboards, and tools. Build ETL pipelines, write parsers for proprietary formats, and maintain relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL). Create interactive dashboards/apps with Dash, Streamlit, or similar (we avoid Tableau/Excel hell). Deliver insights via live web apps where data isn’t static — it’s explorable. Tech we use Python, SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL), S3, modal.com. Bonus: React/web dev experience to shape customer-facing real-time tools. Why you’ll like it here You’ll own projects end-to-end, avoid over-engineering (no Kubernetes, no Airflow — just the right tools), and directly influence decisions. As our company and data needs grow, so does your role. If this sounds fun, email ken@erdosmiller.com with your background and what excites you about wrangling data.
Heres a presentation we did on the system last year alongside Schlumberger. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kfOGKfEoPb0?t=7852s Potatoe quality but my part starts at 2:10:52.
It’s absolutely awesome deploying our super rugged, super high temp drilling technologies for GeoThermal.
If you’re interested in working on this kind of tech we’re hiring.
I've got to be honest. At Erdos Miller, we’re good at software, but we’re not great—yet.
We build crazy products, including ToolHub, which is a web app that literally communicates directly to our embedded hardware.
We want to hire someone who truly cares about solving customer problems and bringing everything together to make great software products.
This is your chance to lead a small team, set the technical direction, make tough compromises, and commercialize real products that delight customers.
No red tape. No investors. No hype cycle. Just build and ship real products.
Sometimes even without AI features.
If you aim to be the best in the world at what you do, let's chat.
We work a lot of hardware, so this is a hybrid Houston-based role.
DM me or apply here: https://erdosmiller.bamboohr.com/careers/65
What Apple has done with these mobile processors is insane. The M-series MacBooks were the first laptop I ever owned that felt like a Desktop, no compromise to go mobile.
Sure, you'll have to make a bunch of thermal/size compromises for the phone form factor but given wall power as a daily driver it is far more than enough for email, teams, web browsing, even development.
Paranoid. I love the Sabbath version, but Randy crushes it with Ozzy in 1981.
Only 3 years with Ozzy, and Randy is still top 10 in the minds of many a metal guitarist today. What an insane impact.
We build technology that sends data through mud and magnetics, literally, for drilling applications such as Oil&Gas and Geothermal power.
We're seeking a bare metal firmware wizard who can:
- Develop for RTOS-based systems using TI processors (TMS320F28X) and TI's -SYS/BIOS operating system
- Manipulate bits at a low level (embedded C)
- Coax hardware into doing magical things
What We Offer
- Bootstrapped, profitable company of 35 people with no investors - we focus solely on our customers
- Unique technical challenges in a small team with no red tape
- Health/dental/vision, 401(k) match, PTO
We're open to remote work for short-term freelance engagements. For long-term roles, we prefer candidates in or willing to relocate to Houston, TX but we're open.
To Apply:
Email jamie DOT caridi AT erdosmiller.com with your resume and why you're a good fit.
Interview Process - Fast, simple, no leet-code.
1. Introductory Interview
2. Team Interview
3. Technical Challenge
US Work Authorization preferred. Open to Canada, Europe. No agencies.
https://www.youtube.com/live/kfOGKfEoPb0?t=7865s
If you want to join our team:
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.