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RapidMind is an exciting, Waterloo-based high technology start-up. RapidMind provides a software development platform that allows software vendors to deliver high performance on multi-core and stream processors, including the GPU and the Cell BE. Without sacrificing development simplicity, RapidMind-enabled applications experience a dramatic leap in performance.

RapidMind is looking to fill a number of development, technical, customer support and sales positions. If you would like to apply to one of the positions below, send a copy of your resume to jobs@rapidmind.com. Include the job title you are applying for. Links to demos or web pages of previous work are also welcome.

Available Positions

System Architect

Reporting to the Director of Software, you are a key member of a dedicated architecture group, responsible for the software design, integrity, and performance characteristics of the RapidMind Development Platform.

Responsibilities
  • interacting with the Chief Scientist, Chief Architect and other members of the research and development team to define the long-term direction of the RapidMind Development Platform both with regards to feature set and system design to efficiently support that feature set.
  • responsibility for high-level system architecture design in conjunction with other architects.
  • defining platform semantics in order to support high-productivity, high-performance parallel programming
  • defining performance characteristics for the platform, based on the expected markets for the platform.
  • work with product management to determine feature sets and performance targets to establish the technical applicability of the platform to specific markets.
  • communicate the architecture to the development team, and work with them on design where appropriate. Help them design features and components that meet functional, performance, and scalability objectives.
  • prototyping to prove concepts, and potentially doing framework designs for early implementations of features.
  • mentoring members of the development team on best practices.
Background
  • 5+ years of design and architecture experience.
  • background designing HPC and high-performance systems, with an emphasis on parallel computing.
  • C++ under Windows, Linux and experience with development tools (debugging, profiling) across platforms.
  • knowledge of relevant development methodologies, tools, and technologies, including an understanding of programming language and parallel computing technology.

Developer Support Specialist

You will become an expert in building RapidMind-enabled applications, and helping our customers effectively leverage the RapidMind Development Platform. As part of the Services team, you have primary responsibility for answering customer questions, and assisting them in migrating their applications to the RapidMind platform. As our leading customer advocate, you will write sample applications, demos and tutorials to demonstrate the effective use of our technologies. As an application expert, you will provide technical guidance to other teams, including sales and documentation groups.

Responsibilities
  • Assist customers with technical questions about the RapidMind Development Platform, and help them understand how to use it effectively.
  • Work with sales and technical consultants to migrate customer code, or improve performance of existing applications.
  • Create sample code and tutorials, demo code. Contribute technical articles to the community.
  • Document support requests, product enhancements and issues as they arise. Work with developers to suggest changes and improvements to the platform.
Background
  • B.Sc, B.A.Sc, B.Math or equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • At least 2 years of customer support or customer-facing experience.
  • Good working knowledge of C++. 1-2 years of development experience under Windows or Linux would be ideal.
  • Experience or education in parallel computing, scientific computation, or image processing is an asset.
  • Excellent communications skills and problem solving abilities.
  • Strong desire to work directly with customers and to help solve their problems.
Location and Start Date

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.

Systems Engineer

RapidMind is looking for a highly motivated individual to use their technical skills to help customers understand and adopt the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform. This individual will become an expert in our customers’ applications. As part of the Sales and Marketing group, you will work with Development to understand RapidMind, the product roadmap, and how it applies to customers requirements. You will assist customers in their technical evaluation of the product, including presentations, training, and support.

Responsibilities
  • Technical discussions and presentations to potential customers.
  • Assist customers in their technical evaluation of the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform.
  • Pre- and post-sales product training.
  • Convert portions of customers code to use RapidMind features as proof of effectiveness.
  • Creation of sample code and demonstrations.
  • Some travel is required.
Background
  • B.Sc, B.A.Sc, B.Math or equivalent in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
  • Good working knowledge of C++.
  • At least 5 years of experience programming complex applications.
  • Experience or education in parallel computing, scientific computation, or image processing is an asset.
  • Excellent communications skills and problem solving abilities.
Location and Start Date

Various geographies around the world including Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.

Application Developer

As a consultant on our Services team, you are responsible for porting mission-critical customer applications to the RapidMind platform. You will need to develop technical expertise in a customer’s domain, profile their algorithms, and port them to the RapidMind platform over the course of weeks or months. The platform does the heavy lifting, but you still need to be an expert in algorithm design, parallelization, and performance optimization.

This position requires technical breadth, the ability to “dive deep” into a new problem space, and the ability to work directly with customers and help them leverage our technologies effectively.

Responsibilities
  • Lead projects to port customer applications to the RapidMind platform.
  • Analyze and profile applications, understand how to gauge performance and spot performance bottlenecks.
  • Work directly with customers; make technical recommendations and work through the implications with them.
  • Implement required changes, and work with the development team to achieve optimal performance in your solutions.
  • Manage a development project on your own, and be responsible for the entire solution; from initial discussions with the customer, through design discussions, implementation and delivery. You are a member of a team, and have assistance, but you are responsible for your own projects.
Background
  • 3-4 years of relevant development experience.
  • Educational background in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or the equivalent.
  • Good working knowledge of C++, including STL and templates across Windows, Linux, Mac.
  • Optimization and profiling experience. Solid debugging experience is necessary.
  • Experience programming GPUs and knowledge of graphics APIs (such as OpenGL or DirectX).
  • Parallelization knowledge and experience would also be ideal.
Location and Start Date

Various geographies around the world including Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.

Technical Writer

You focus on the usability of new and existing features in the RapidMind platform, and are responsible for generating all of the technical content required to explain the platform to our users. This includes making sure that the API is well documented and easy to use, managing our user guide and other customer-facing documentation, authoring sample code, tutorials and case studies.

The ideal candidate would be able to sit in on design reviews, discuss usability with platform developers, them produce material to explain proper use of that functionality to our customers. Our audience are highly-skilled developers, so you need to be able to focus on producing content useful for that audience, including sample code, tutorials and supporting low-level documentation.

Aside from content creation, you are also responsible for adherence to branding, participation in creating corporate styles, as well as overall management of the company’s technical materials.

Responsibilites
  • Create content for user documentation, including the API specification, articles, user guides and reference manuals.
  • Creation of knowledge base content including technical articles, known issues, and FAQs.
  • Evaluate the usability of new and existing API features.
  • Working with development to ensure accuracy and completeness of content.
  • Desire and interest in learning about our platform and products.
Background
  • Excellent C++ skills, and desire to produce good, clean code.
  • Good writing skills (1-2 years experience), and the ability to explain technical concepts to a technical audience.
  • Education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
  • Experience with Windows and Unix environments is ideal.
Location and Start Date

Various geographies around the world including Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.

Sales and Business Development

RapidMind is looking for highly motivated individuals to join their sales and business development team. As part of the Sales and Marketing group, you will work directly with customers in an outbound fashion helping them to understand the value of the RapidMind platform.

Responsibilites
  • Prospect, qualify and close business for RapidMind.
  • Assist customers with understanding the value of RapidMind in order to drive evaluations and sales of the RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform.
  • Pre- and post-sales funnel management.
  • Provide quotations and assist customers as needed.
  • Prospect for new customers.
Background
  • At least 10 years in an outside sales role within the computer hardware or software industry.
  • Proven strategic thinker and ability to execute on revenue.
  • Strong knowledge of software applications in various verticals.
  • Excellent communications skills and problem solving abilities.
  • Excellent organizational skills.
  • Proven closing abilities.
  • Ability to work independently within a geography.
  • Applicants with a university degree preferred.
Location and Start Date

Various geographies around the world including Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.

Product Manager

RapidMind is looking to add an exceptional Product Manager to the Marketing team. The Product Manager will investigate market and customer requirements and ensure RapidMind is delivering products and services that add tremendous value to our customer’s business.

Responsibilites
  • Determine future product requirements for the RapidMind platform through customer contact and market research.
  • Work with the RapidMind software development team to ensure RapidMind is delivering the right products in the right timeframes.
  • Provide technical and business content to the rest of the marketing team to produce effective sales and marketing materials.
  • Be a knowledgeable and effective spokesperson for the product to customers and partners.
Background
  • B.Sc, B.A.Sc, B.Math or equivalent in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
  • MBA or other formal business education an asset.
  • 5+ years of experience in product management for a highly technology product.
  • Strong knowledge of how software is architected, developed and deployed.
  • Proven strategic thinker who is comfortable leading both technical and business discussions.
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Location and Start Date

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, starting immediately. Contact jobs@rapidmind.com with your resume.