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99% Perplexity


About spit out my coffee, hilarious title.


That joke is very old and very tired.


Erdos Miller | Firmware Engineer ($127K-$149K) | Remote or Houston, TX | https://www.erdosmiller.com

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.


Good afternoon!

I responded to your request last month regarding the data Engineering role. Did you happen to fill that role?


Writing code that runs down hole or otherwise connects back to the real world would be fun. Maybe I should pickup firmware skills. Good luck with your hiring!


It is a ton of fun! I've been hooked for years!


I just applied and sent an email, fingers crossed.


this looks so much fun, any chance for South America?


We're open to it. Show us what you've got.


I'm game to talk to you if you want to ken AT erdosmiller DOT com, we're always on the lookout for fantastic talent.


ull be hearing from me kenneth


We're designing the navigation systems that are leading the way in GeoThermal energy. You can check out our presentation from the ISCWSA last year in Glasgow (apologies for the potato quality video.)

https://www.youtube.com/live/kfOGKfEoPb0?t=7865s

If you want to join our team:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244633


I fret over this sometimes. I feel a mentality that helps me is, just forget about things like this and focus on building, bigger, better, more value providing products one after the other.


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.


I'm posting this once more as there should be more traffic now. This occured during Janurary and early Feburary, adjust all dates as necessary. Thankfully a few weeks later something landed for me.

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I had a poor experience with Erdos Miller. I'm willing to take the reputational hit because I think it's important that people go in with eyes open.

I was approached by the CEO of Erdos Miller to do some data science work on anomaly detection/failure prediction, and signal recovery down mud pipes in drill holes.

Over a period of two weeks we signed an NDA, and discussed the problems. I laid out several approaches to solving the anomaly detection/failure prediction problem, including specific algorithms to use (or not!). This is my bread and butter work, with hard won experience.

On Friday the 31st I had a call and a new fairly vanilla anomaly detection problem was discussed, which he (The CEO) wanted to go ahead with immediately. He was asking about explicit approaches to solving this, which I discussed. We agreed to start next week - He confirmed that we were unequivocally going ahead, rates were discussed without pushback. I sent a rate card after the conversation.

On Monday I emailed to sort out logistics for data access, billing, etc. He promptly replied that he was taking the project in house. Now I've seen this post listing exactly the problems I had laid out solutions to.

Erdos Miller went back on an explicit agreement they made on the very next business day, pumped me for hard earned experience, and took a free option on my time (This entire week is un-billable, possibly more). Finally he'll have a leg up on structuring the work for these two roles should he fill them. That leaves a sour taste in my mouth.


Something similar happened to me recently with another company but at least I got paid. My condolences for your time being wasted.

It's tough out here with unscrupulous businesses.


Please post this every month.


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.


I had a poor experience with Erdos Miller. I'm willing to take the repetitional hit because I think it's important that people go in with eyes open.

I was approached by the CEO of Erdos Miller to do some data science work on anomaly detection/failure prediction, and signal recovery down mud pipes in drill holes.

Over a period of two weeks we signed an NDA, and discussed the problems. I laid out several approaches to solving the anomaly detection/failure prediction problem, including specific algorithms to use (or not!). This is my bread and butter work, with hard won experience.

On Friday the 31st I had a call and a new fairly vanilla anomaly detection problem was discussed, which he (The CEO) wanted to go ahead with immediately. He was asking about explicit approaches to solving this, which I discussed. We agreed to start next week - He confirmed that we were unequivocally going ahead, rates were discussed without pushback. I sent a rate card after the conversation.

On Monday I emailed to sort out logistics for data access, billing, etc. He promptly replied that he was taking the project in house. Now I've seen this post listing exactly the problems I had laid out solutions to.

Erdos Miller went back on an explicit agreement they made on the very next business day, pumped me for hard earned experience, and took a free option on my time (This entire week is un-billable, possibly more). Finally he'll have a leg up on structuring the work for these two roles should he fill them. That leaves a sour taste in my mouth.


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.


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