I know that many of my readers are technical and interested in wireless innovation so I thought I’d pass this along. Samsung is looking for a director of software engineering for a creative team.

Director, Software Engineering
Dallas, Texas

Involves managing a group of 25 or so creative individuals and being an idea leader for that group. The group is expected to generate approximately 25 patents per year. The candidate must guide the work of some truly creative individuals. The output will be software innovations that will be used in future handsets models. This position gets a lot of visibility in HQ so the candidate must be able to travel to Korea to represent his work.

Requirements

MS or PhD from a tier one university (e.g. Ivy League, CMU, Stanford, MIT, academic Big Ten, etc)

At least 10 years experience with embedded systems design, algorithms and C language programming.

Understanding of software architecture and algorithms

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Robert Merrill clearly gets it:

In line with the news about Yahoo crawling for free job postings, if you remember Econ 101, you will see that this movement in the market toward free listings and aggregated search engines (Indeed and SimplyHired) is evidence that the “job posting� itself is not really where the value is.

The posting itself is just words, and though it has been used as evidence of the dot-com industry’s legitimacy, and the saving grace (read: only consistent revenue stream) of newspapers all over the world

But in my opinion, the market is realizing that the value behind the ad is the people it connects–the recruiter and the candidate. If an ad will not adequately connect good candidates and the people willing to hire them, it is useless. To that end, since current job-posting technologies are doing little more than spamming recruiters with millions of resumes, the value is dropping rapidly.”

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