From: dgreen@smurf.sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered
Subject: X11 Motif/OLIT Internals  @  STI, Cupertino, Calif.  @  IMMEDIATE
Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:49:07 -0800
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: smurf.sti.com


THE OPENING
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  STI has an immediate, permanent opening for a person with a strong
background programming in X11 using Motif, OLIT, or Athena (i.e., using
Xt).  We hope to fill the position by February 28, 1993.

  You will be building new widgets and interfaces using Motif,
OpenLook Intrinsics, and Xt.  You should be familiar with Motif, Athena
widget, or OLIT internals.  Based on your interests and abilities, you 
may also be involved in design decisions and specification writing.  With 
the proper background, this position could quickly evolve into designing
and developing C++ interfaces, however the Xt experience is an absolute must.

  We extend a lot of the functionality of Motif and OLIT in our products.
You will learn a lot here (even if you think you know it all now).

  If you have your own UNIX workstation with a v32bis modem, you can
work at home some of the time (actually a PC will do, since we have several
386 based UNIX products in-house).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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o  YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR WORK BEFORE FEBRUARY 28, 1993.

o  You must have at least two years in-depth experience writing Xt
   based code which uses Motif, Athena or OLIT.  One year of Xt is OK, if
   you have written other applications using Windows, Windows NT, or 
   Macintosh.  If you have never dug around in X11 Xt, OSF Motif, or OLIT
   sources to figure out why something happens, or to help you subclass a 
   widget, you probably don't have the background necessary for this job.

o  If you are not a permanent resident, we will consider your application
   only if you are EXTREMELY well-qualified (greater than 3 years
   experience in UNIX, X11, and Postscript programming), or live in
   the local area.

o  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.  Significant
   industrial experience in UNIX or X programming (i.e., you wrote a huge
   Xt based program) might be an acceptable substitute.

o  Evidence of creativity and self-motivation.

o  You should have strong commercial or academic references.  

   IF YOU HAVE NEVER HELD A COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMING POSITION READ THIS:

   Commercial references are very strongly valued at STI.  Why?  Because 
   university experience rarely tests your ability to initiate new 
   projects and carry them through to industrial-quality completion.  We
   would consider some very rare people with university-only experience,
   but they have left evidence lying around: typically they have produced 
   popular public domain code available on anonymous FTP sites.  If you 
   are in this category, we would like to talk to you very much.

   If you have never held a commercial programming job and have no evidence 
   of exceptional initiative and creativity lying scattered about, we do 
   not want to talk to you; I'm sorry.  I hate to sound so severe, but 
   I really get lots of resumes from people without commercial 
   experience, who provide no way to gauge their abilities otherwise.  

   Creative programmers can contribute beautiful things to the world, 
   even while languishing in an interminable stint at a university.

THE COMPANY
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  Software Transformation, Inc. is a venture-funded startup which
produces portable graphics-oriented software.  Our tools run on X11
platforms, MS Windows, Macintosh, and OS/2.  Our main interest has
been in porting existing applications under contract.  Recently, we
have begun to directly market our portable system, and some of the
tools that go with it.  Since we have used this system internally for
many years, and it has been used for real applications, it has become
functionally rich compared to other similar systems.  It is so rich that
some application writers have used it to write applications that only 
run on a single platform, despite its multiplatform abilities.

  Specific examples of programs that use our work:  a very popular personal
financial package that runs on Windows, a geographical mapping program,
a knowledge database program, an animation program, a personal time planner.

  STI has about 36 employees.  We are located immediately below the
Santa Cruz mountains in Cupertino.  The work is challenging.  Since we
are small, individual contributions mean a lot and get noticed.  The
more creative and industrious you are, the more likely you will
succeed at STI.  Though we live-or-die on our ability to produce what
the market needs, we try as best we can to satisfy your interests.  To
use a cliche, we are a "work hard, play hard" kind of place.

  STI has a wide variety of equipment and software available to play
with, including many Macintoshes, many 386/486 PCs, and several UNIX
workstations.  We are directly connected to the internet.

  The organization is very friendly.  There is no dress code.  Our
employees are extremely individualistic: including mountain bikers
(with a biking park nearby), political activists, stay-at-home types,
an SCA member, a hippie, a bunch of talented Ashton-Tate refugees,
rollerbladers, croquet players, etc.

  The STI work environment is smoke-free.

  STI does not discriminate on any basis other than your ability to do
the job.  In particular, we do not discriminate on the basis of sex,
race, creed, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, marital
status, sexual orientation, handicap, or age.  We have a racially and
sexually-mixed company, and like it that way.

  STI provides an exceptionally good medical and dental insurance
plan, a 401-k investment plan, employee stock options, an on-site
shower, free soda pop (see dental insurance, above, if you deem this a
liability).  We probably provide other stuff, but I can't remember it
all: oh yeah, a nominal amount of free postage and maybe an occasional
test ride in our CEO's Acura NSX.

SUBMIT YOUR RESUME
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Please do not submit your resume if you do not fit the above listed 
requirements.  If you do qualify, I greatly encourage you to apply.  If 
you do not qualify, you waste everyone's time by submitting a resume.

PLEASE LET US KNOW THE SALARY YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.

Preferred methods, in order of preference:

1. uuencoded Postscript or .dvi file by electronic mail to dgreen@sti.com.
   PLEASE DO NOT E-MAIL A PLAIN-TEXT RESUME.  If you can't generate,
   uuencode, and split a PostScript or .dvi file, you probably don't 
   qualify.  OK, if you stick it on an anonymous ftp site, that works too.

2. FAX:  (408) 973-0989.  Attn: Dan Greening.

3. Mail:

   Dan Greening
   STI
   1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, Suite 100
   Cupertino, CA  95014

  Everybody in the engineering department writes code, including the
managers, me, and the Vice President of Engineering, my boss.  There
is currently no full-time personnel person.  Therefore we have limited
time to attend to personnel matters.

  Please forgive me if I do not respond by mail to a submitted resume.
I will be happy to discuss your resume by phone, after you give me a
week or so to look at it.


PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE: NO RECRUITERS.
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\  /Dan Greening    Software Transformation   1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100
 \/dgreen@sti.com   (408) 973-8081 x313       Cupertino, CA 95014