Senior Electrical Engineer

This is a permanent position. You will be responsible for the architecture, requirements, development, documenting, and testing of the electrical systems or subsystems for new innovative products and existing applications.

You have the ability to analyze technical requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. In this job you will consult with other engineering staff and scientists to evaluate the mechanical, operational and performance requirements of overall system. Duties also involve performing periodic system design reviews and mentoring other members of the technical staff on good engineering development practices.

Required Education and/or Experience:

BS or higher degree in electrical engineering or equivalent.

10+ years experience in electrical engineering

Required Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Responsibilities include large system design efforts while serving as lead engineer on major projects from concept through release to production

Provide technical expertise coupled with proven leadership skills in the fields of Electrical Engineering, DFM and Lean Design.

You will also provide guidance to junior members or engineering staff and technical insight to all levels of engineering and management

Conduct in-depth quantitative analyses of design performance for proposed and developing designs using hand and computer aided methods

Make technical recommendations/decisions on projects and develop engineering statements or work and cost and manpower estimates for proposed projects

Lead the development of and present technical design reviews

Report technical and programmatic status to program, functional and executive management

Validating system-level electrical performance and design requirements

Allocating electrical performance and design requirements to subsystems and components

Synthesizing subsystem performance characteristics and confirming acceptable overall system performance or resolving any shortfalls

Managing system electrical requirements and evaluating and mitigating system risks

Other Skills and Abilities Required:

Digital & Analog design experience

Extensive embedded system design

Expert in schematic entry, layout tools and design for manufacturability

Hardware Design, Components Placement, PCB Lay-out, PCB Stack-up, PCB Artwork, and Assembly Drawing
Ensuring assigned engineering work is completed on time and on budget

5 years minimum experience with electronics CAD such as Altium

Proficiency in engineering computer tools used for design analysis and verification required

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Excellent teamwork ethic

Strong problem solving and creative skills

Must be a team player with good people and leadership skills and ability to mentor

Good organizational skills being able to multitask on multiple development projects

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Software Developer - $90-130k
Location: Lexington
US Citizens only, eligible to obtain security clearance.
Our client is an employee-owned small business focused on the engineering, integration, deployment and operation of state-of-the-art command and control, communications, navigation, surveillance and reconnaissance, launch and information systems that deliver critical network centric capabilities.

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Software Developer capable of conceiving, designing, developing, testing and integrating software to interconnect information systems associated with national security. Key activities include:
. Software development and real time programming
. Rapid prototyping on service oriented architectures

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
. BS in CS, Math, Physics, Engineering or equivalent experience
. 2 years relevant work
. Strong Java experience
. Knowledge of service oriented architecture protocols
. Knowledge of software design practices
. Documentation and configuration management
. Software or systems test

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:
. Masters Degree in CS, Math, Physics or Engineering
. Programming on the iPhone and/or Android platforms
. C++ and object oriented design
. Service oriented architecture protocols
. Knowledge of real-time systems
. Maven configuration management
. Agile software development practices
. Rapid prototyping
. Team code development

US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a DoD SECRET Security Clearance are required for the position.

Salary will be commensurate with experience. Client is a growing company and there will be opportunities for internal advancement. They have a generous benefits package including health, dental, vision and disability insurance, paid time off, 12 holidays (including year-end shutdown), company provided life insurance and a 401K with a company-paid retirement contribution.

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A new sales opening in a Boston area "wealth management" firm; diversity candidates welcome. Sales background in life sciences, finance; empathy counts.
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# Senior Firmware Engineer - Natick, MA

Required Skills
* C programming expert
* Multiple projects developing embedded systems for commerical or consumer use brought to market successfully.
* State machine development
* Ability to read and review schematics and gain respect of EE's
* Comfortable using logic analyzers, emulators, scopes, etc.
* History of effective teamwork with other engineers, both SW and HW.

# Mobile Partnerships Director - Waltham, MA

Requirements:

* 7+ years experience in business development at a leading e-commerce, mobile or media/publishing. (preference of past company experience where content is an essential part of the value proposition)
* Demonstrable track record of establishing and growing successful partnerships with significant companies
* Curiosity to evolve new strategies and uncover new partner segments that support goal achievement
* Equipped with excellent prospecting, negotiation and sales skills (Consultative selling ability)
* Understanding of mobile industry and trends.
* Expected to travel 50%...both national and international


# Ruby on Rails Software Engineer for Hot Startup! - Cambridge, MA
Requirements:

- Ruby on Rails product architecture and development experience
- 5+ years of Java and server side architecture and development experience
- Experience creating high traffic sites and memcached, load balancing, and distributed applications.
- Strong Unix, Linux, and MySql experience
- Full life cycle product ownership from gather requirements through product release
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, memcached, load balancing, linux, unix, Ajax, Scalability, data mining


# Junior Embedded Software Engineer - Boxborough, MA
Requirements
* BS/MS Computer Engineering or BS/MS Electrical Engineering with Software focus
* C and assembly language experience and familiarity with scripting languages
* Strong software development skills and knowledge/experience in software engineering best practices (i.e. modularity, extensibility, reusability and maintainability)
* Ability to work effectively with other team members including embedded application development, system and quality engineers
* Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills
* Proficiency in a foreign language a plus (German, Japanese)

Tools
* Oscilloscope
* Logic Analyzer
* Debuggers
* Emulators
* Office Productivity (Word, Excel, Visio)
* Network analysis
* Version control
* Defect Tracking

# Web Application SW Developer - Cambridge, MA
Java, Python, MySQL, Hadoop, Solr and Cassandra. It doesn't matter which technologies you have build in, but you should be an expert in something. Great engineers can (and should) change their toolset over time and our client will pay you to learn these new tools.

# PHP Developer - Braintree, MA
Qualifications

* 3-7 years development in a Linux, Apache, PHP 5 and MySQL (or Postgres) environment
* Strong SQL skills and familiarity with data modeling
* Familiarity with one or more major MVC framework(s) such as Zend, Cake, etc.
* Some experience with Object-Relational Mapping libraries such as Active Record, Doctrine, or Propel.
* Some familiarity with REST or SOAP Web services
* Understanding of basic Javascript, Ajax, and familiarity with one or more javascript library such as jQuery, Scriptaculous, Prototype, or YUI
* Firm grasp of basic web application security techniques
* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent
* Experienced with Agile/XP/Scrum programming methodologies, test-driven development (a plus)


One of our favorite clients has asked us to conduct a search for five sales people in these areas: Boston, Boulder, California, Minnesota, Mid-Atlantic and North Carolina. They will consider people at all experience levels but you (or someone you refer) should have some understanding of both the life sciences arena as well as the foreign language industry. This is a wonderful company, profitable throughout the recession.

We have also engaged a new client who will be hiring 5 sales people this year for the United States; you can live anywhere in the US. Travel will be around 20%, occasional internationally. This is a Chinese-based company and most of the 150 employees are in the 5 offices of that country. The services sold range from computer software and customized engineering to technical writing and product testing. Over the course of 2011 they will hire people with all levels of experience, but initially they will hire folks with 10-15 years' sales experience and who have knowledge of the translation industry.

I look forward to hearing from candidates who might explore such an opportunity and aren't shy about being assertive to make the sale.

Please send along your current, updated resume and we'll chat about the details. P.S. If this opportunity is not for you at this time please consider forwarding to friends for whom it might be the next step in their sales career.

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Our client's engineering team is addressing some of the toughest challenges in computer security. Their world-class team is constantly tackling problems that are considered “too hard” for everyone else. The team perform all functions of the software development life cycle, from brainstorming and system design through testing and delivery.

Client has asked us to conduct a search for developers with the following skills:

· Experience working with the internals of Windows.

· Memory management.

· Design, implement and debug kernel and driver software.

· Perform research of relevant standards and technologies.

· Characterize and resolve performance issues.

· Experience with various API interception.

· Experience in file system design.

· Strong C/C++.

· Expert troubleshooting and debugging skills.

· Experience with kernel debugging.

· Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

· Self-directed; requires minimal supervision on work projects.
· Willingness to proactively interact with the team and achieve results in a dynamic small company environment.

Comp; up to $130k plus equity
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North Cambridge ...By Alewife/Belmont...Easy commute from anywhere...CIDC...This is RED HOT>>>>Full time or Contractor ...Salary wide open...100-130K..plus++

Principal Database Application Engineer...Key role to play an integral role in development of high-performance multi-player gaming applications. The position requires experience with high-performance transactional databases (IBM Informix is a plus, not needed, will train if strong in other areas), stored procedure (Informix SPL) development, database trouble shooting, and optimization. Databases administration experience is a plus.

The successful individual will work closely with application architects and developers to support sound data architecture and design. The candidate will work with the development teams to support and troubleshoot database related problems within the applications.

The candidate will monitor the database performance, identify performance bottle necks, and work with the development team to implement performance recommendations.

The qualified candidate will support a production environment where occasional after hours and weekend support may be required. The candidate must be able to work in a dynamic operational environment with changing priorities and a high operational tempo. The candidate must possess strong communication skills to work with a geographically dispersed development team, work with Technical Operations and Databases Administration teams.

Required Skills

* Proven high-performance OLTP database design, normalization, and optimization skills
* Strong SQL query and stored procedure writing, optimization, and debugging skills
* Good configuration management skills
* Knowledge of JAVA or Perl based ORM packages, Web applications, Apache Web server or JBOSS is a plus.

Required Experience

You must possess a Bachelor or Master of Science degree in Computer Science/Engineering or a directly related technical discipline, plus 6-10 years of experience with at least 4 years in solid Data Base database engineering and administration. Experience with highly available Informix OR Oracle DB based systems, Informix SPL OR PL/SQL development, Linux OS, shell or Perl scripting, and strong communication skills, to include verbal and written is required.



Best regards,

Patrick Mertens
Pure Placements of New England
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Watertown MA 02472-2524
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