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Agent Employment Opportunities

Subject: Job openings at IS Robotics From: pook@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Polly Pook) Date: 27 Jun 1997 18:46:14 -0400 Organization: IS Robotics, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.robotics.research,comp.robotics.misc,comp.ai IS Robotics in Somerville, MA has immediate openings for two software programmers to do state-of-the-art development of intelligent robots and wearable computing. The positions address specific current needs of ISR, however, we are a dynamic company with many interesting projects. Every employee has the opportunity to work on other projects (and will indubitably do so). Note also that ISR believes in the value of a diverse range of backgrounds. The experience requirements should be taken as guidelines, not mandates. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER for Robot and Wearable Systems Over the next three years, we will develop a natural control interface between human and robot using a wearable computer. The wearable interface includes speech and gesture recognition, eye-tracking, and augmented reality heads-up displays. The robot will be a new prototype to add to our suite of small autonomous robots that are built on the subsumption software architecture developed by Rod Brooks, our chairman and Assoc. Director of the MIT AI Lab. Development languages will include C/C++ and L/MARS, a subset of common Lisp that provides runtime behavioral robot control primitives. The system will be built on an event-driven distributed architecture. The work will also address issues in situated planning and supervisory control of mobile robots. We seek a software developer to help implement this project, in concert with a team of roboticists, human-computer interaction (HCI) experts, and software, electrical, and mechanical engineers. The ideal candidate has excellent skills in at least one of C, C++ or Common Lisp and familiarity with the others; has a background in AI or control systems; and is interested in reactive robot control, distributed agent architectures, or HCI. Experience: B.S. or M.S. in CS, or equivalent, plus 4+ years relevant experience in industry or academia. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2) SOFTWARE DEVELOPER for Robot and Wearable Systems We are looking for a smart, innovative C programmer to be responsible for areas of systems infrastructure and C programming support across a variety of ISR projects, including state-of-the-art robots, wearable computers, next-generation toys, and commercial ventures. The ideal candidate has excellent skills in C, has a Unix background, is comfortable with hardware devices, and likes to learn. Any of the following skills or experience is also a plus: - Systems programming, device drivers, interrupt handlers, &etc - Assembly language programming, particularly for either x86 or 68k - Assembly language programming for digital signal processor chips - Developing for real-time operating systems - Windows-95/NT development environments and tools - Programming in Common Lisp or similar languages Experience: B.S. in CS/EE or equivalent. [an error occurred while processing this directive]