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Are you tired of developing products with no idea of how your work will be used? Do you enjoy meeting with customers to plan how technologies should be deployed in a real business?

Do you want to work on exciting new technology instead of porting someone else's code to another platform? If so, the following positions at General Magic might interest you.

Licensee Technical Manager (WW-18)

You will be the technical focal point between General Magic and an OEM partner as they successfully develop and bring to market state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You must be experienced in managing for success the following types of tasks: requirements specification, engineering schedule development, resource allocation, quality assurance, user testing, release engineering, licensee coordination, and advocacy. You must be a self-starter, have strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills. Strong management, negotiation, and facilitation skills are essential. There will be a need for international travel. Required Qualifications:
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Licensee Engineer - Low Level Software Support(WW-19)

You will provide assistance in the day-to-day technical activities of our OEM engineers who are developing state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will provide expertise for device driver and boot code development as additional capabilities are added to our platform. You will work alongside our OEM engineers to debug problems they may be having. You have great customer skills, patience, and the ability and willingness to juggle many tasks at once. Responsibilities may include writing sample code, writing technical notes, and training. There may be some international travel (1-2 times per year). Required Qualifications:
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Licensee Engineer - Hardware (WW-20)

You will provide assistance in the day-to-day technical activities of our OEM engineers who are developing state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will provide expertise for hardware development as additional capabilities are added to our reference platform. You will work alongside our OEM engineers to debug problems they may be having. You have great customer skills, patience, and the ability and willingness to juggle many tasks at once. Responsibilities may include providing sample schematics, writing technical notes, and training. There may be some international travel. Required Qualifications: Desired Qualifications:

Licensee Engineer - Application Software Support (WW-21)

You will provide assistance in the day-to-day technical activities of our OEM engineers who are developing state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will provide expertise for our OEM partners and their 3rd party developers who are developing applications to run on our operating system. You may also add extensions to the OS framework. You will work alongside our OEM engineers to debug problems they may be having. Responsibilities may include writing sample code, writing technical notes, and training. You have great customer skills, patience, and the ability and willingness to juggle many tasks at once. There may be some international travel (1-2 times per year). Required Qualifications:
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Licensee Engineer - Low Level Architect (WW-26)

You will use your years of embedded or consumer system experience to aid our customers in the design of state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will help architect software solutions and take part in design reviews. You will provide schedule estimates for our partners. You may be called upon to direct and act as technical lead for a team of programmers. Your focus will be on device drivers, bootcode, and hardware system architecture. The position will occasionally require international travel. Required Qualifications:
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Licensee Engineer - Applications Architect (WW-27)

You have participated in writing shipping applications and will use this experience to aid our customers in the successful design of state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will help architect solutions and take part in design reviews. You will provide schedule estimates for our partners. You may be called upon to direct and act as technical lead for a team of programmers. Your focus will be on applications, UI design, and middleware (protocols, database access, etc.). The position will occasionally require international travel. Required Qualifications:
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Lead Development Engineer Applications (WW-28)

You will develop state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will act as Technical Lead on various applications to run on our operating system. You will also provide continuing engineering for current application programs as needed. You may also add extensions to the OS framework. At times you may work alongside our OEM engineers to debug problems they may be having. Responsibilities may include writing sample code, writing technical notes, and training. You have great customer and leadership skills, patience, and the ability and willingness to juggle many tasks at once. There may be some international travel (1-2 times per year). Required Qualifications:
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Lead QA Engineer (WW-29)

You will be responsible for the daily operations of the Magic Cap Applications test team. You will determine what tasks (including test plans creating, bug regression, etc.) must be performed and divide tasks among team members. You will also review test plans for team members and provide feedback. You will need to evaluate staffing needs and conduct interviews with candidates; participate in product decisions; and give product status as QA representative on the Applications project team. Required Qualifications:
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Telescript Engineer (WW-32)

You are an experienced UNIX software engineer with a strong background in applications development in object oriented programming -- preferably C++. You have a keen interest in developing applications that are customer focused and solutions oriented. You are also interested or have experience in developing distributed applications for the World Wide Web. You're motivated by programming and getting your applications done and out the door. You will be a software engineer in Magic Cap applications development for General Magic customers. You will participate in software design sessions and work in small teams to develop an application specification according to customer's requirements. You will then develop these applications using your superior object oriented programming skills. Projects will range from small to large applications so you must be comfortable working on your own or in teams of engineers. You will interact with other software engineers in customer engineering and core engineering to answer questions, review designs, bounce ideas around and fill in your knowledge base.

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Magic Cap Engineer (WW-33)

You are an experienced software engineer with a strong background in applications development in object oriented programming--preferably C++. You have a keen interest in developing applications that are customer focused and solutions oriented. You are also interested or have experience in developing applications for mobile devices (PDA's, PIC's, organizers). You are motivated by programming and getting your applications done and out the door. You will be a software engineer in Magic Cap applications development for General Magic customers. You will participate in software design sessions and work in small teams to develop an application specification according to customer's requirements. You will then develop these applications using your superior object oriented programming skills. Projects will range from small to large applications so you must be comfortable working on your own or in teams of engineers. You will interact with other software engineers in customer engineering and core engineering to answer questions, review designs, bounce ides around and fill in your knowledge base.

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Magic Cap Applications Engineer (WW-34)

You will develop state-of-the-art consumer communication products based upon our Magic Cap operating system. You will work on a team developing applications to run on our operating system. You will also provide continuing engineering for current application programs as needed. You may also add extensions to the OS framework. At times you may work alongside our OEM engineers to debug problems they may be having. Responsibilities may include writing sample code, writing technical notes, and training. You have great customer and leadership skills, patience, and the ability and willingness to juggle many tasks at once. There may be some international travel (1-2 times per year).

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Magic Cap Applications Project Manager (WW-35)

You will be a MC Applications project manager responsible for the coordination of Applications development schedules with General Magic specifications and design. You will provide for transfer of information, training, schedule synchronization and consulting for multiple projects. You will work in conjunction with Magic Cap platform project managing to bring products to market and consult in the prototyping of Magic Cap OS design and the development of software associated with prototyping and productization of that design.

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Magic Cap Lead Engineer (WW-30)

You are an experienced software engineer with a strong background in applications development in object oriented programming--preferably C++. You have a keen interest in developing applications that are customer focused and solutions oriented. You are also interested or have experience in developing applications for mobile devices (PDA's, PIC's, organizers). You're motivated by programming and getting your applications out the door but you also enjoy and opportunity to be a technical team leader. You will be a lead software engineer in Magic Cap applications development for General Magic customers. You will develop software designs and architectures for new applications and be the primary programmer on these applications. You will work with General Magic's and our customer's user interface designers, product and engineering teams to define applications that focus on strategic solutions. You will provide schedule estimates, technical proposals and specs. You will then develop these applications using your superior programming skills. A strong candidate will have the opportunity to lead a team of programmers in large application development. You must be comfortable acting as the primary technical contact to our customer's engineering, sales and product team which means you can communicate technical content clearly and be proactive. Required Qualifications:
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Localization QA Engineer (WW-36)

As the localization QA engineer, you will be testing and releasing necessary tools and software to localize our Telescript web products for Japanese and other Asian markets. You will be working closely with our engineering department and other members of the localization team to develop test plans and test the localized products on native computing environments from the Asia Pacific region. The primary computing environment will be Japanese based.

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Localization Project Manager (WW-37)

As the localization project manager, you will be leading a localization team to localize our Telescript web products for Japanese and other Asian markets. You will be working closely with our engineering department to define the product requirements for internationalization and localization. You will be working with our customers in the Asia Pacific region to define the best localization strategy for them. You will be managing various localization projects from the planning phase to the product release phase.

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Senior Localization Engineer (WW-22)

As the senior localization engineer, you will design and develop the necessary tools and software to localize our Telescript web products for Japanese and other Asia markets. You will be working closely with our engineering department to define the product requirements and system level design for internationalization and localization. You will be working with our customers in the Asia Pacific region to define the best localization strategy for them.

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Telescript Project Manager (WW-23)

In this position you will lead a team of customer-focused software engineers who provide in-depth technical assistance to Magic's OEM partners in Asia Pacific region. You will serve as the visionary for this team as they work as catalysts to make our partners' products winners in the marketplace. In addition you will work directly with the technical management at companies who are using Telescript and Magic Cap to formulate plans to bring products to market. You will be the key player bringing this team of developers together as they work on many different projects both in California and overseas.

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Senior Telescript Engineer (WW-25)

In this position you will provide technical leadership in project teams developing customized solutions to customers in Asia Pacific region. You will serve as the architect and principle engineer for this team to design and develop software for our customers, and make their products winners in the marketplace. In addition you will work directly with the technical management at companies who are using Telescript to formulate plans to bring products to market.

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