Come and work with the F# group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge! Microsoft Research in Cambridge has open positions for very high quality applicants with advanced computer science skills (normally recent PhD-level graduates or highly relevant industry experience), and internships for current PhD candidates or other talented masters students. I would like to encourage potential candidates interested in any topic related to F# itself, as a language and tool set Topics on the boundary of F# and its appl[...]

Regular readers of my blog will know that from time to time I post links to F# jobs as a courtesy to the F# community. I particularly follow those in London, where we have F#unctional Londoners and other functional/finance/.NET user groups. Here are a few: F# Developer, Finance, Agile Senior F# Developer C# WPF F# developer- Quant group F# Developer/Programmer (C#, SQL) - Top Tier Investment Bank C# Dev 4.0 Hedge Fund Statistical Arbitrage F# C# / C++ / F# Developer - London - Hedge Fund Data Analysis M[...]

An F# Meetup Group in Seattle has now been launched by Tao Liu on the F# team. (It's only just been created, so get in early!) If you're in the Seattle or King County area and are interested in F#, then please join, and help get the group off to a great start. A good meetup group absolutely depends on people participating by giving good presentations, and also on getting F# presenters who are coming through town to come by and give a talk. So start considering what talks you'd like to give, and what other [...]

  Microsoft Research are seeking candidates for a 6-month contract position in F# programming to help improve the capabilities of F# in the area of cross-platform and web-delivered data-rich programming. The candidate should have several of the following: Excellent F# programming skills Experience with ASP.NET, Web, Silverlight and/or Javascript programming Experience with implementing tooling for typed languages including type checking, compilation, code editing and interactive evaluation Knowledge of cl[...]

Tomorrow the NYC F# meetup group will hear from Jack Pappas. (Note: I think there is a waiting list for this event, but hopefully a larger room can be organized? Or perhaps a repeat of the event?) High Performance F#, in .NET and on the GPU with Jack Pappas, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 6:30 PM Microsoft Offices, 6th floor, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY (map) I'll discuss the benefits of using F# to build large .NET-based applications, and show how you can leverage F# language features to buil[...]