David.Kaufer@CAD.CS.CMU.EDU (08/13/86)
The following message is a maximum distribution posting. Thanks. Job Title: Software Engineer Department: English Department, Carnegie-Mellon University Description This position involves developing educational and application tools for facilitating the process of writing, including tools for gathering, analyzing and interpreting textual information; planning, organizing, and revising text. Duties will be programming, broadly construed to include the following activities: (1) participating in the overall system design and specification with principal investigators; (2) formulating system and program specifications to meet the objectives of new and revised systems; (3) preparing data collection and analysis tools and debugging tests to assure optimum effectiveness and reliability; (4) deciding the best methodology for achieving functional, cost and performance goals; and (5) writing module descriptions and programmer documentation. The application development context is an advanced function workstation running the software environment ANDREW, developed at the Information Technology Center, a joint project of Carnegie-Mellon and IBM. ANDREW mainly consists of graphical window manager support and virtual file service, and is implemented as an extension to 4.2 BSD UNIX. Qualifications Candidates must have a thorough knowledge of software engineering and computer system programming techniques typically gained through an B.S. degree in computer science, math, or electrical engineering with computer science concentration, or 4 years relevant experience with the development of large systems. Candidates should also know the Unix operating system and be proficient in C. Experience with text-editor, hypertext and data base programming, and with human factors in advanced workstation graphics design is desirable. Salary: Commensurate with experience Send Resumes to Christine M. Neuwirth English Department Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 or mail to neuwirth@a.psy.cmu.edu