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Immunant | Irvine, CA | Software Engineer | FREELANCE or FULL-TIME | REMOTE (US residents only)

Immunant is a boutique systems programming firm with a focus on operating systems development, security hardening, and code migration to Rust. The code we help write run on millions of devices and must resist attempts at tampering and exploitation.

If you are a dedicated systems programmer with substantial C/C++ or Rust knowledge and the ability to solve problems in a minimally terrible, minimally fragile, and reasonably clear way, we'd like to hear from you. We prefer freelancers at this time but we will also consider exceptionally strong candidates for full-time positions.

Please send your CV to team@immunant.com. We are unable to consider candidates outside of the US. Please mention HN in the subject so we know you pay attention to detail. We look forward to hearing from you.

SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE (United States)

Immunant is looking for seasoned developers with clear and demonstrable experience with:

1. C/C++ development including secure coding practices, fuzzing, use of sanitizers, exploit mitigations, and a robust understanding of debuggers, compilers, and emulators.

2. Rust development, including substantial knowledge of how Rust interoperates with C/C++ via bindgen, cxx, and its foreign function interface. A robust understanding of cargo, rustc, and the most popular packages for systems programming is expected.

Minimum soft skills: the ability to express yourself clearly in writing and verbally. The ability to plan, track, document, and execute on tasks with minimal supervision.

Bonus skills: build systems (make, cmake, bazel), scripting in Python. Exploit development, compiler development, kernel development, hypervisors. These skills are in addition to the base skills listed under 1 and 2, not a substitute.

Recruiters and developers that do not clearly meet the above criteria are not encouraged to reach out.

Immunant offers attractive working conditions with an attractive compensation package, knowledgeable and helpful colleagues, and a work environment designed to be maximally reasonable and sustainable (i.e., not leading to burn out or excessive frustration).

Email your resume to team@immunant.com. We are unable to consider freelancers outside of the United States regardless regardless of skill, nationality, etc. Please mention HN in the subject so we know you've read our posting carefully. We look forward to your mail!

The basic feature set of BBEdit (what was previously TextWrangler) is free.

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/faqs.html#no_licen...

France and Germany tried their hand at a publicly funded Google (search engine) competitor [0]. It is also worth reading up on EU projects such as Galileo and Gaia-X. If history is any guide, it would not likely go according to plan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

Immunant | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you know a thing or two about systems programming, compilers, and operating systems? Do you have a knack for performance tuning and know how to make best use of the available hardware?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden and optimize components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust/assembly, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We have offices in Irvine, CA and Boston, MA and also consider strong remote candidates in the United States. Candidates outside the US are not encouraged to apply. More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!

Putting your code on GitHub and meeting the requirements to inclusion in their Arctic Vault would put it on storage designed to last 1000 years at least [0]. They use film reels for storage [1]. Then again, retrieval is not super easy ;-)

[0] https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/ [1] https://www.piql.com/

> For example, we’ve built a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics called Simple Analytics.

This is mostly a plug for their EU-compliant alternative to Google Analytics.

Immunant | Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you know a thing or two about systems programming, compilers, and operating systems? Do you have a knack for performance tuning and know how to make best use of the available hardware?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden and optimize components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust/assembly, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We have offices in Irvine, CA and Boston, MA and also consider strong remote candidates in the United States. Candidates outside the US are not encouraged to apply. More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!

> As a researcher, I like their non-hype way of defining AI as "programmed ability", which is accurate and realistic

This is the first point of advice in the Heilmeier Catechism

https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism

Immunant | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you know a thing or two about systems programming, compilers, and operating systems? Do you have a knack for performance tuning and know how to make best use of the available hardware?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden and optimize components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust/assembly, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We are located in Southern California but also consider strong remote candidates in the United States.

More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Immunant | [Senior] Software Engineer | REMOTE, CA | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com Immunant is working tirelessly to make the lower levels of the modern software stack more secure and reliable. We are looking for systems programming experts to help us harden and enhance components used by hundreds of millions of users each day.

If you have substantial experience with Rust or C/C++, compiler construction, program analysis, hypervisors, and/or binary analysis, we'd love to talk. Successful applicants are well-organized, self-motivated, and enjoy working independently on challenging problems.

Our team is partially in Irvine, California, partially remote on the East and West Coast. Candidates outside the US are not encouraged to apply. No recruiters please. More details here: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Send questions or your application to team@immunant.com; please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

It comes down to jurisdiction. EU can only enforce its GDPR within its member countries.

Immunant | [Senior] Software Engineer | REMOTE, CA | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

Immunant wishes to rid the world of memory corruption errors. We harden existing C/C++ or migrate it to Rust; we also maintain C2Rust. We are looking for systems programming experts to help us harden and enhance components used by hundreds of millions of users each day.

If you have substantial experience with C/C++/Rust, compiler construction, program analysis, hypervisors, and/or binary analysis, we'd love to talk. Successful applicants are well-organized, have an eye for detail, and a high degree of self-motivation and ability to work in a self-directed manner.

Our team is partially in Irvine, California, partially remote on the East and West Coast. Candidates outside the US are not encouraged to apply. More details here: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Send questions or your application to team@immunant.com; please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Immunant | [Senior] Software Engineer | REMOTE, CA | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

Immunant is working tirelessly to make the lower levels of the modern software stack more secure. We are looking for systems programming experts to help us harden and enhance components used by hundreds of millions of users each day.

If you have substantial experience with C/C++/Rust, compiler construction, program analysis, hypervisors, and/or binary analysis, we'd love to talk. Successful applicants are well-organized, have an eye for detail, and a high degree of self-motivation and ability to work in a self-directed manner.

Our team is partially in Irvine, California, partially remote on the East and West Coast. Candidates outside the US are not encouraged to apply. More details here: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Send questions or your application to team@immunant.com; please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Immunant | [Senior] Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com The team at Immunant is working tirelessly to make the lower levels of the modern software stack more secure. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you have substantial experience with C/C++/Rust, an eye for detail, and a high degree of self-motivation, we'd love to talk.

We are located in Southern California but are also considering strong candidates who wish to work remotely in the US. More details here: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Send questions or your application to team@immunant.com; please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Instead of using the Edison device, as far as I understand, Theranos performed blood testing using traditional providers but hid this fact from investors. FSD, on the other hand, is something 3rd parties can evaluate on their own, the flaws are there for all to see. Hype, while not always okay, isn't fraud.

The Gov't is often the earliest and most risk tolerant investor. I'm mainly thinking of DARPA (who funded Moderna to the tune of $25M if my memory serves) here, I have much less knowledge of how risk tolerant NIH is.

Their mission of making AI available to a broad section of society vs concentrating power among a few special interests justifies the name as far as I’m concerned. The name open does not have to mean “everything is FOSS and available on GitHub” in my opinion.

Immunant | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you have experience with systems programming, compilers, or operating systems? Do you like research-y work where the best solution is rarely the most obvious one? Do you care about security?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We are located in Southern California but also consider strong remote candidates in the United States.

More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!

Immunant | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you know a thing or two about systems programming, compilers, and operating systems? Do you like research-y work where the best solution is rarely the most obvious one?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We are located in Southern California but also consider strong remote candidates in the United States.

More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Immunant | Senior Staff Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

The team at Immunant is working tirelessly to make the lower levels of the modern software stack more secure. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you have experience with C/C++/Rust, an eye for detail, and a high degree of self-motivation, we'd love to talk.

We are located in Southern California but are also interested in strong candidates who wish to work remotely in the US. More details here: https://www.immunant.com/jobs

Send questions or your application to team@immunant.com; please mention HN in subject line.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The term unintended instructions is common in the infosec community and was (as far as I know) popularized by the seminal paper on ROP https://hovav.net/ucsd/dist/geometry.pdf

I'm sure different terms are used in other communities.

I don't think they are overclaiming. From the abstract:

> we present Constantine, a compiler-based system to automatically harden programs against microarchitectural side channels [...]

> secret dependent control and data flows are completely linearized (i.e., all involved code/data accesses are always executed).

Their goal is to hide microarchitectural events from a passive or active observer. As a side note, the VUSec research group helped discover microarchitectural side channels such as Rogue In-Flight Data Load [0] and I'm sure they know the difference between earlier work on timing and microarchitectural side channels.

https://mdsattacks.com/files/ridl.pdf

> This is clearly wrong as they are still selling Intel versions of the MacBook and MacMini

I can think of other reasons some customers may prefer or need to buy the Intel version. AFAIK, you cannot run virtualized x86 code (docker, parallels, vmware) on the M1 macs (yet?) or maybe you need a driver for HW that is not yet available for M1/ARM. You can't conclude that they sell Intel versions for performance reasons.

Article says they do.

> There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US.

Spotify, ATI, ARM, BlackBerry?

Immunant | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://www.immunant.com

NOTE: this position is no longer open.

Do you want to get paid to use Rust? Do you know a thing or two about systems programming, compilers, and operating systems? Do you like research-y work where the best solution is rarely the most obvious one?

Immunant is helping its customers deploy Rust code alongside or in place of C/C++. We are looking for a fellow systems programming expert to help us harden components used by hundreds of millions of users each day. If you are self-motivated, have demonstrable experience with C/C++/Rust, and an eye for detail, we should talk.

We are located in Southern California but also consider strong remote candidates in the United States.

More details: https://www.immunant.com/jobs Code: https://www.github.com/immunant

Send questions and applications to team@immunant.com – please mention HN in subject line. We look forward to hearing from you!

> This is a good example of how so much economics is meant to distract you from what’s important.

I think your assumption of malice is unfounded. A likely benign explanation is that Cowen focused on areas there economists are in broad agreement without intent to mislead.

To nobody's surprise, this is true in Denmark too.

This looks horribly complicated compared to the naming schemes deemed sufficient by AMD, NVIDIA, Apple, etc.