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Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolin
by souprock 9y ago
Southeast USA including: Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (beach east of Melbourne), South Carolina (Greenville), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), and possibly others, all ONSITE. Citizenship is a job requirement.
We do emulators, JIT, hypervisors, stuff like valgrind, debuggers, manual disassembly, binary static analysis, parsers, and assembly. We write our own low-level tools, frequently in C99 to run on Linux. We also use IDA Pro, qemu, Simics, JTAG debuggers, gdb, Coverity, KlocWork, LLVM, and so on. Easily transferable skills include those related to compilers, kernel drivers, embedded RTOSes, vectorizing, firmware, VxWorks BSP development, symbolic execution, boot loaders, software verification, concolic testing, abstract interpretation, satisfiability (SAT, SMT) solvers, and decompilers. We work with more than a dozen architectures including PowerPC/ppc/POWER, MIPS, ARMv8/Thumb2/AArch64, x86-64/x64/Intel, DSPs, and microcontrollers. We hire from no-degree to PhD. Common degrees include Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics.
We don't normally work overtime, and we get paid more if we do. We're never expected to take work home or be on call. Because of the citizenship requirement, there is no chance that the work will be outsourced. Flex-time is fairly extreme; some do randomish hours.
Location hints: Pick Arlington for a car-free life. Pick Florida or Texas to live in a place with solid gun rights and no state income tax. Pick Florida for almost no traffic or commute, surfing, and houses that commonly go for $150,000 to $450,000.
You can email me at users.sf.net, with account name albert.
- gamedna 9y agocompany details?
- giancarlostoro 9y agoLooks like it's for SourceForge.
- monocasa 9y agoIDK, it sounds like a cyber defense contractor using a sourceforge email for some reason.
- souprock 9y agoIt's an old personal email address, already well-exposed to spammers due to being in the man page for Linux's ps command.
- monocasa 9y agoOh, that's neat. I'm assuming from the nature of the description that remote work (but still US based) is a hard non-starter?
- souprock 9y agoWe've allowed remote work for well-established and valued employees who need to be remote for personal reasons. For example, we did that for an employee who moved to be close to his cancer-stricken father. We aren't at all likely to hire somebody to be remote on day 1. We consider it to be a security problem.
- monocasa 9y agoThat's what I figured. Thanks for responding. : )
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- LyndsySimon 9y ago> Pick Florida or Texas to live in a place with solid gun rights and no state income tax. I really appreciate this nod. Gun rights are a big part of the reason I could never live in the Valley, and though it's a huge part of many people's lives across the country it's not something that you see recognized in recruiting efforts.
- tallanvor 9y agoI could never work for a company that felt the need to add mentions about gun rights to their advertisements. It's fine if you personally support it, but when you bring that attitude into the public face of the company, it's a big red flag about the work environment.
- souprock 9y agoThere are no red flags here. We proudly fly the American flag. One in our cafeteria looks to be about 8x15 feet. Our veterans hold an annual Flag Folding Ceremony in honor of Veteran's Day. Many employees choose to go shooting together, but there is no pressure to participate. It's just a normal all-American activity. I'm not really "the public face of the company". Notice the lack of a trademarked Pantone color. The official corporate identity would tell you nothing about what our office locations are like. They would however proudly tell you about heat beams to zap people and about gun turrets that aim and fire without human action, so they aren't completely boring.
- Recoveringhobo 9y agoUh... I'm sure every paragraph there is a red flag for most peope on HN. I know it is at least for me, and I own guns and was an Eagle Scout.
- indescions_2018 9y agoMy guess is Northrop Grumman. Not sure why it must be so hush hush ;) Proposed merger with Orbital ATK should cement its launch capability into New Space era. Also, Huntsville, AL. Where the James Webb Space Telescope primary manufacturing is performed. Is looking like it may become a budding startup hub.
- souprock 9y agoNope, we're a wholly-owned subsidiary (several hundred people) of a vaguely similar company. I could go into the details (better benefits for example) but it gets complicated. People make wrong assumptions about the work environment. We were a start-up about 13 years ago, and still retain much of that culture. It's not a bunch of bureaucrats in cubes wearing ties, and we don't want to waste time interviewing people who seek that kind of thing. There really are lots of useless toxic people who see a famous company name and then picture a bureaucracy in which they can hide as a parasite. We work hard to keep them away.
- Washuu 9y agoMy guess is SI based on the information provided. Huntsville is going through its town center/SoDoSoPa phase at the moment with lots of tiny villages and shopping centers being built. There is a new one going up right by Big Spring Park and it is probably the first time I have seen a crane in downtown.
- dbancajas 9y agoSalary range??
- souprock 9y agoWe are hiring at multiple levels and in multiple locations, so it's a big range. You don't want an upper bound on it, do you? That would be limiting. :-) It's possible to beat typical Silicon Valley pay while living out in a cheap place, with a fresh college graduate maybe getting 6 figures after a year or two, but I'm certainly not promising this to you. We seem to be well above the national average. Most people get a large raise after a year or two. To put it another way, I'm feeding a family of 13 (sole provider) and living on a 0.48 acre lot that is less than a mile from the beach. I can walk to work, which is across the street from the beach. With the right technical background, you could do that too.
- dbancajas 9y agoDude, I lived in Austin before and I loved the place! Not looking to move companies anytime soon though as I love my job right now but I'm glad to hear people doing emulators and stuff can be paid big $ too. I've always been interested in emulators/VM/virtualization/OS as I work closer to the metal as they say.
- blahfuk 9y agoI'm pretty sure I know what company this is, subsidiary of Raytheon. No one would discuss salary with me until I had an offer and you guys couldn't hit 115K
- souprock 9y agoWe pay some people far more than 115K. Not everybody has the same level of skill.
- blahfuk 9y agoFair enough, I just wish you guys didn't beat around the bush so much about salary in early discussions. I really wanted to take the offer but the salary was a non starter, wasted both of our time.