Did you notice that the skills/experience bullet list said "some". We are interested in abilities, insight, and basic knowledge. As part of the candidate eval

Did you notice that the skills/experience bullet list said "some". We are interested in abilities, insight, and basic knowledge. As part of the candidate evaluation process we test candidates on their performance with a substantial design and implementation project, one that we believe should be fairly simple for someone with good programming skills and a good knowledge of algorithms and design. Most fail, and most of the rest perform badly. Even at the coder level, we see people who are unable to translate written descriptions into code. It is really depressing. Maxeler is an interesting and challenging gig. Maxeler takes clients "known to work" code running on a cluster of machines (typically several thousand) and accelerates it by as much as a factor of 250X using a combination of hardware and software. Salaries depend upon skills and performance and are competitive with those elsewhere.