PreTalen Ltd. is a rapidly growing, employee-owned company that is looking for engineers specializing in digital signal processing, reverse engineering, cyber security and embedded systems. Due to the nature of our work, you need to be a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to receive a security clearance.
This is an opportunity to work with smart engineers in a fun hacker-type culture. You'll be working on challenging problems and really pushing your engineering skills to the limit.
Here is one of the positions that we are currently looking to fill:
===Digital Signal Processing Engineer===
Responsibilities:
-Processing digital signals using SDR technologies
-Development of DSP algorithms in C/C++ or Python
-Use of Linux based SDK's and DSP frameworks (i.e. GnuRadio)
-Embedded DSP circuit design and reverse engineering
-Engineering wireless technologies and systems
Requirements:
-Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years experience in a DSP related field
-C or Python development experience
-Ability to work with Linux based operating systems
-Wireless security background is desired
-Experience using SDR peripherals (i.e. USRP, HackRF)
That's neat! You should add team winning percentage as another stat to see if it improves your results. It might reduce the occurrence of false positives for players like Lillard and Rondo.
Just need to make sure it's not weighted enough to remove the All Stars coming from worse (<= .500) teams (Carmelo, Drummond, Wall, Kobe, Harden, Davis, Cousins).
On a side note, I'd say the reason Lillard (I can't speak for Rondo) wasn't selected is more related to the over-abundance of top tier guards in the West this year, rather than the Blazers' win percentage. He's the only player in the top 10 PPG that isn't an All Star, and he's been leading Portland to a much better year than pretty much anyone predicted.
PreTalen Ltd. is a rapidly growing, employee-owned company that is looking for engineers specializing in digital signal processing, reverse engineering, cyber security and embedded systems. Due to the nature of our work, you need to be a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to receive a security clearance.
This is an opportunity to work with smart engineers in a fun hacker-type culture. You'll be working on challenging problems and really pushing your engineering skills to the limit.
Here is one of the positions that we are currently looking to fill:
===Digital Signal Processing Engineer===
Responsibilities:
-Processing digital signals using SDR technologies
-Development of DSP algorithms in C/C++ or Python
-Use of Linux based SDK's and DSP frameworks (i.e. GnuRadio)
-Embedded DSP circuit design and reverse engineering
-Engineering wireless technologies and systems
Requirements:
-Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years experience in a DSP related field
-C or Python development experience
-Ability to work with Linux based operating systems
-Wireless security background is desired
-Experience using SDR peripherals (i.e. USRP, HackRF)
Andrey Butov from the Bootstrapped.fm podcast developed a cross-platform desktop application called Scribbleton (https://scribbleton.com/) that sounds like exactly what you are looking for.
I currently live near Dayton and grew up near Pittsburgh. If you don't have ties to either city, I would take job with better benefits and manager in Pittsburgh. Both are nice cities with a surprising number of tech jobs. Housing is a little cheaper in Dayton but not dramatically different. If family doesn't factor into your consideration then there are more lifestyle options and things to do in Pittsburgh.
Yes the "what's new" section is the first thing I looked for! Does anyone know if this new version supports HEVC/H.265 video? I would upgrade my existing Chromecast if more codecs were supported but I didn't see any information in the articles I read. 5 GHz Wi-Fi is not as important to me because the 2.4 GHz band is not very crowded in my neighborhood.
Did your friend share any reasons why the turnover is so high? I've heard Amazon pays well and it seems like there would be interesting work to do.
Is the environment bad or do people just find it easier to move up to better jobs at different companies once they have some experience with Amazon on their resume?
Anecdotal at best, but from a friend who worked there, I gleaned that the pay was not particularly good. They were overworked and there was on-call which came with quite a bit of stress since my friend spent quite a few sleepless nights on calls. Lastly, it seems there was not a lot of room for advancement.
The consistent element in every story I've heard from Amazon is that it's crazy stressful. I get the impression that they've basically made burnout a corporate value.
The mandatory 24/7 on-call support for your group, (week or two at a time, every month?) is a huge negative. My friends groups product was for mainly normal working hours professionals on the west coast so he didnt get the crazy all night shenanigans that other groups had.
Your career is definitely not shot. I've known people who completely bailed on their first job out of college within a few weeks and bounced back on their feet almost immediately. I would contact the hiring manager (and maybe copy HR) and ask if you can defer your start date. Explain that you had some medical issues that prevented you from finishing your degree as expected. You don't have to provide a detailed explanation and they will likely not ask for one.
Say that you still want to work for them, but you are making up your remaining classes over the summer/fall and that you would be available to start at full capacity on X date. If you can start within a few months of your original date, they probably will be fine with that. If you can't start until next January or next spring, then they might tell you that it would depend on their needs at the time. Either way, I wouldn't leave school and then try to secretly get your degree on the side. Those kinds of decisions usually come back to bite people at some point in the future.
It seems like the best deals come through old fashioned networking. Maybe look at several businesses that would compliment your existing product and get in touch with the owners?
Develop a process that adds more openness and accountability. Hold a 15 minute daily standup meeting where each developer shares what they accomplished the previous day and what they plan on accomplish that day. Spend some time creating very distinct tasks for each developer that are 2-4 hours long. Tell the developers which tasks you expect to get completed that day and not to get sidetracked. They are providing the engine power, but you are steering the boat.
Many developers get sidetracked because they are afraid to confront the fact that they don't know how to do something. Make it clear that it's okay not to know something but it's not okay to just avoid a task in front of them. Find roles for them where they can excel. Imagine being a coach of a basketball team. Some players are good shooters while others might be good at defense and rebounding. It's up to you to find these strengths and use them together. A fast developer may get excited about doing new development but hate doing things they consider grudge work. These slower developers might like doing work like testing and documentation (and actually be better at it).
Daily standups, especially with 2-4 hour long "tasks you expect to get completed that day" is simply thinly disguised micro-management. It is the antithesis of all the advice on how to make people more productive and excellent at their jobs, which is to make them autonomous. Sounds like a nightmare environment.
Some people work better with daily accountability and need help breaking up tasks so they don't get overwhelmed. I worked for a boss that managed this way and no one felt micromanaged. Having clear objectives and giving a 1-2 minute daily verbal update didn't seem like a "nightmare environment" at all.
We had some members on our team that were similar to those the poster is describing. For those the team lead was more explicit about setting tasks and for others he gave more autonomy. The daily standups were a chance to discover what's holding people back from making the progress needed to complete larger team goals on time. I was also skeptical of the process when I started the job, but it actually works very well.
I have always naturally thought about what I'm going to complete during a day over the commute to work. I'm convinced that successful people tend to do this. Standups are nothing more than formalizing this process for small teams, which is especially useful for members who may not already be planning their days' work in advance.
PreTalen Ltd. is a rapidly growing, employee-owned company that is looking for engineers specializing in digital signal processing, reverse engineering, cyber security and embedded systems. Due to the nature of our work, you need to be a U.S. Citizen who is eligible to receive a security clearance. This is an opportunity to work with smart engineers in a fun hacker-type culture. You'll be working on challenging problems and really pushing your engineering skills to the limit.
Here is one of the positions that we are currently looking to fill:
===Digital Signal Processing Engineer===
Responsibilities:
-Processing digital signals using SDR technologies
-Development of DSP algorithms in C/C++ or Python
-Use of Linux based SDK's and DSP frameworks (i.e. GnuRadio)
-Embedded DSP circuit design and reverse engineering
-Engineering wireless technologies and systems
Requirements:
-Bachelor’s Degree or 3 years experience in a DSP related field
-C or Python development experience
-Ability to work with Linux based operating systems
-Wireless security background is desired
-Experience using SDR peripherals (i.e. USRP, HackRF)
More job descriptions can be found on our web site at: https://www.pretalen.com/careers
For questions about open positions or to submit your resume, contact [email protected] .
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