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SW Engineer, User Centered Research, Motorola
May 04 04
Source: CHI-Jobs
Software Engineer - User Centered Research
Location: Schaumburg, Illinois
Send resume/cover letter to:
Larry Marturano
Email: marturan at labs.mot.com
Department Description:
The User-Centered Solutions Lab (UCSL) is part of the Center for Applications, Content and Services Research within Motorola Labs. Our charter is to utilize iterative prototyping to drive Motorola businesses to realize growth opportunities in application, content and services.
We're a dynamic cross-functional team of engineers and user-centered design specialists with a clear focus on advanced development and user-driven innovation: designing complete solutions to real user problems and building and evaluating prototypes that users can interact with.
Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations:
Create (architect/design/implement/test) application and service software for rapid prototypes all the way up to shipping product code in a collaborative fast-paced environment:
- Participate in the design, execution and analysis of user requirements and usability studies
- Help to develop scenarios and software functionality based on user data
- Participate in decisions about tasks, flows, and UI look/feel
- Create prototype software applications based on user requirements
Specific Knowledge:
Training:
- Essential: BS degree or equivalent in Computer Science (CS) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Desirable: MS or equivalent in CS or HCI
- Desirable: previous design background or experience, formal or informal
- Desirable: experience in metadata, content management, or social network research
Software skills and experience:
- Essential: significant Java expertise (J2ME & J2SE and implementations such as CDC HI)
- Essential: C++/C and/or embedded software development experience
- Desirable: experience in development tools (JUnit, ClearCase, Visio, & cross compilers)
- Desirable: experience with XP (eXtreme programming) concepts
- Desirable: product lifecycle (design, implementation, & testing) understanding and experience
- Desirable: experience with multimedia content management or network protocols
User-Centered Design skills:
- Desirable: previous direct participation in some sort of user-centered research or design (university or industrial research lab, or industrial
development)
Interpersonal - Ideal candidates have:
- A goal-driven, action-oriented approach
- A passion for making things in an advanced development environment
- A demonstrated ability to work well in a multi-disciplinary team and across organizational borders Motorola is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We welcome and encourage diversity in our workforce.
Company Information
Motorola Labs
Web Address: http://www.motorola.com/labs
In 1998, Motorola leaders committed the company to developing a world-class, standalone research organization. The first step was to pull together varied research activities from across the company to form a single research team, now known as Motorola Labs.
Today, Motorola Labs has a strong, global team of scientists, engineers and technicians focused on discovering and developing new materials, technologies, architectures, algorithms and processes for smarter devices and systems. Motorola Labs has developed a portfolio of significant, highly coordinated, strategic research programs and leadership technology in areas such as communication on networks from
2.5 to 4G and ad hoc networks, multimedia, security and privacy, microminiaturization, human experience, VoIP and more.
Motorola Labs is working on the technologies that will make it simpler for us to communicate with our friends and family, easier for us to communicate with our products and enable our products to communicate with each other and configure themselves to individual preferences and the environment. We are also developing intelligent networks that can configure and heal themselves for consistently superb performance.
Motorola Labs works closely with the company's product businesses to transform the promise of technology into real solutions.