31–40 of 182 posts
SpaceX, Los Angeles. With the Obama administration's recent budget recommendations for NASA (cutting the Constellation program), we're continuing our expansion. Mad C++ & Linux skillz? Want to write code that lives on the International Space Station or controls our vehicle while it visits? Think humanity should colonize Mars? Drop us a line, we're hiring. Visit spacex.com/careers for more info.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a US only job? Seeing as you would be writing code that runs on a vehicle on Mars, maybe you could accept code from a different part of the Earth? ;-)
Yeah, unfortunately. The job requires either US citizenship or permanent residency. If you're interested in the reasons, google ITAR.
ok so I scanned through ITAR and it has 20 categories of items on the "Munitions List". If any non US hackers want to be "Munitions Expert"s, keep reading.
(1) Firearms, Close Assult Weapons and Combat Shotguns (2) Guns and Armaments (3) Ammunition/Ordnance (4) Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Rockets Torpedoes, Bombs and mines (5)Explosives and Energetic Materials, propellants,Incendiary Agents and their constituents (6) vesels of War and Special Naval Equipment (7) Tanks and Military Equipment (8) Aircraft and Associated Equipment (9) Military Equipment and Training (10) Protective Personnel Equipment and Shelters (11) Military Electronics (12) Fire Control, Range Finder Optical guidance and Control Equipment and (13) Auxiliary Military Equipment, (14) Toxicological Agents (15) SpaceCraft systems and Associated Equipment (16) Nuclear Weapons (17) Classified Articles, technical Data and Services not otherwise enumerated (!!!) (18) Directed Energy Weapons (19) Reserved(??) (20)Submersible Vessels and Oceanographic Equipment (21) Miscellaneous Articles
with lots of items under each heading.
And here's the bit that most affects hackers.
Section 121.8
(e) Firmware and any related uniques support tools such as computers, linkers, editors, testcase generators, diagnostic checkers, libraries of functions and system test diagnostics specifically designed for equipment or systems covered under any category of the US Munitions List is considered part of the end item or component. Firmware includes but is not limited to circuits into which the software has been programmed.
(f) Software includes but is not limited to the system functional design, logic flow, algorithms, application programs operating systems and support software, for design , implementation, test, operation, diagnosis and repair.
Hey, on second thought I think I like being an "International Munitions Expert" Better title than "Code Monkey"!
I wonder if PG should implement a feature for a regularly scheduled article for this question. The alternative is for one of the expanding membership of this site to randomly decide there hasn't been a discussion of this topic "in some time" and post this and get some quick points (not saying that this is happening here, now, but I can see the potential for abuse)
Coax: Created 100 days ago, karma 41.
Most of our stack is in Ruby - always looking for good front-end hackers as well. Especially if you like clouds, you might be into what we're cooking up. Check out http://drop.io/jobs, http://dev.drop.io, or stalk us here: http://twitter.com/ChrisRicca/drop-io
drop.io, Brooklyn, NY. Most of our stack is in Ruby - always looking for good front-end hackers as well. Especially if you like clouds, you might be into what we're cooking up. Check out http://drop.io/jobs , http://dev.drop.io , or stalk us here: http://twitter.com/ChrisRicca/drop-io
More details here: http://www.startuply.com/Jobs/Software_Developer_1984_1.aspx