From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!sytek!gi!mike@sri-unix Newsgroups: net.jobs Title: Programmer wanted Article-I.D.: gi.170 Posted: Fri Jun 18 08:05:04 1982 Received: Sun Jun 20 00:56:49 1982 The Corporate Research and Development Laboratory for General Instrument Corporation has the following position available: Job Title: Scientific Programmer Duties: Programming support for engineers, scientists and technicians in the Research and Development Lab using the 4.1BSD version of UNIX on a VAX-11/780. Experience Needed: UNIX operating system. 'C' programming language. FORTRAN 77 programming language. C and/or Bourne shell interpreters. Education: Candidate should have a bachelors degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. System Applications: Hardware is used for CAD development, process control, testing and statistical analysis. Candidate's initial assignment will involve porting an in-house developed VLSI design system from UNIX to VMS. Future assignments will involve further development of the VLSI design system under UNIX. Candidate will be expected to provide technical support to the user community. Additional Strengths: Background in graphics hardware and software. Background in electrical engineering (semiconductor design and/or process). The R&D Lab is located in the greater Phoenix area and is involved in state of the art VLSI design. General Instrument is a Fortune 500 company with sales approaching 1 billion dollars annually. We offer an excellent working environment with competitive salary and benefits. Send resume outlining education, experience and salary history to: General Instrument Corporation 2355 West Williams Field Road Chandler, Arizona 85224 Attention: Personnel 602-963-7373 ext. 281 or contact: Michael L. Wendel 602-963-7373 ext. 568 _______________________________________________________________________ So much for the official PR. We've got a pretty good thing going here. We have a VAX 11/780 and a VAX 11/750. There are about 20 user accounts on our 780. Usually only 5 - 10 are online at any time. Our usual load factor is less than 2 (4.1bsd measurement). The R&D staff totals less that 50 people (engineers, scientist, technicians) at this time. Our primary activity is supporting a CAD system for VLSI design that is being developed in house. We are working with high resolution (1024 X 768) color graphics and are ordering several RAMTEK 6212 and 6211 medium resolution systems (512 X 512). Our 780 is connected to several test computers, and most anything else we can find. We've been saddled with the task of porting our CAD system (called STRIDE for STRuctured Ic DEsign) to VMS for 2 other corporate divisions. But all of our development and other work will continue to be done on UNIX. We are trying to get a VAX 11/730 for our VMS target system. This will be the first major task for this position. STRIDE is written entirely in C. Completion of the port is expected in February 1983. I will be at USENIX in Boston. Anyone interested can contact me over the net (ucbvax!sytek!gi!mike or decvax!sytek!mike). If you will be a USENIX we can arrange to meet there and discuss the position further. Michael Wendel General Instrument Corporation Corporate Research and Development 2201 W. Williams Field Rd. Chandler, Arizona 85224 602-963-7373 ext. 568 ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!gi!mike decvax!sytek!gi!mike