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Livescribe – Exciting Ground Breaking Technology!

Livescribe will fundamentally change the way people capture, use and share information with pen and paper, making the possibilities of pen and paper endless. With Livescribe, people will no longer have to settle – they can have the best of both the paper and digital worlds. The company is designing innovative solutions that enhance personal productivity, learning, communication & creative expression. Livescribe is the forerunner in this new era of mobile computing.

Livescribe is funded by VantagePoint Venture Partners and has an executive management team with deep experience from successful technology companies such as LeapFrog, Palm, Apple and IBM. Livescribe incorporated in January 2007 and was founded by Jim Marggraff, the inventor of paper-based computing including the LeapPad & FLY Pentop.

Livescribe offers competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Current positions available:

• Senior Software Product Manager
• Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools
• Senior Java Software Engineer
• Mac Desktop Software Engineer
• PC Desktop Software Engineer
• Senior Hardware Quality & Reliability Engineer
• Development Tools Software Engineer
• Senior Firmware Engineer
• Embedded Systems Engineer
• Embedded Audio Engineer
• Senior Electrical Engineer

Please email all inquiries to jobs@livescribe.com and include the job title in the subject line. Please attach your resume in either word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format.

Senior Software Product Manager

We are seeking a candidate to fill our newly created position of Software Product Manager for Mac Software. The successful candidate for this position will define and manage our new desktop software efforts from a business and marketing perspective and will help build a new software product from the ground up.

Responsibilities:

• Play a lead role and in defining and delivering our newest desktop software product.
• Work closely with the Software Engineering and UI Design teams to assure the final product includes the necessary functionality, fit and finish to satisfy our customer base.
• Create actionable requirement documents and specifications and drive them to fruition.
• Be at times both inward focused while working with teams within Livescribe to design, develop and deliver the final product, and outward focused to evangelize and demonstrate the product in the marketplace.
• Take responsibility for feature and functionality versus time to market.
• Lead a cross-functional team and “own the business” of this software product.

Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in high-tech product management, including taking products from concept to market.
• 5+ years of Mac software experience a requirement, preferably delivering a variety of software solutions to the Mac community
• A working understanding of Mac OS X a requirement.
• CS/BS/BA or similar technical degree required, MBA degree a plus.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Start-up experience a plus.
• The successful candidate will demonstrate a logical thought process, be a quick learner and have a good sense of humor.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Senior Product Manager, Developer Tools

We are seeking a candidate to fill our newly created position of Product Manager for Developer Tools. The successful candidate for this position will define and manage our developer tools efforts from a business and marketing perspective, while working closely with our Developer Relations Group in order to assure the delivered product satisfies the needs of developers for the Pulse smartpen platform.

Responsibilities:

• Play a lead role and in defining and delivering developer tools for the Pulse smartpen.
• Work closely with the Developer Relations team and our developer base, to determine the appropriate functionality necessary to create applications and solutions for the new Pulse smartpen platform.
• Create actionable requirements documents and specifications and drive them to fruition.
• Be at times both inward focused while working with teams within Livescribe to design, develop and deliver the final product, and outward focused to evangelize and demonstrate our tools and communicate our programs to the marketplace.
• Lead a cross-functional team and “own the business” of developer tools.

Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in high-tech product management, including taking products from concept to market.
• CS/BS/BA or similar technical degree required, MBA degree a plus.
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
• Start-up experience a plus.
• Software development background a plus.
• A working understanding of Java and the Java Platform a plus.
• The successful candidate will demonstrate a logical thought process, be a quick learner and have a good sense of humor.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Senior Java Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Play a lead role and in defining and implementing the Java Platform on the “Pulse” smartpen.
• Work closely with our applications team to drive and expand the platform applications as needed to assist in the rapid application development.
• Build applications using the Java Platform.
• Work closely with QA to develop testing plans for the API features.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience with Java and C.
• Bachelors Degree in CS, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Experience with J2ME is highly desirable.
• Excellent OO development skills.
• Demonstrated ownership and leadership for projects and assignments.
• Demonstrated passion for creating an outstanding user experience.
• Demonstrated experience working in a collaborative environment.
• Experience with component-oriented iterative development practices.
• Experience demonstrating best practices with attention to detail.
• Ability to work on your own, with a history of good technical choices and decision making.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Mac Desktop Software Engineer

We are looking for senior software engineers that have a passion for creating a great user experience. As a member of the desktop software engineering team, your creativity, technical expertise, great sense of design, and excellent communication skills will be key factors in enabling you to successfully create our state of the art rich desktop applications.

Responsibilities:

• Prototype, design, develop, test, and deliver components of our desktop applications.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of our desktop applications.
• Work closely with the SDK/Tools and Web Services teams to integrate their components and services.
• Work closely with QA to ensure effective development of acceptance criteria and functional tests.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ownership and leadership for projects and assignments.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing consumer-based applications and services that were successfully delivered to a wide audience.
• Experience delivering consumer application in a Windows environment.
• Familiarity with modern agile development methodologies and test-driven, component-oriented iterative development practices.
• Ability to work on your own with a history of good technical choices and decision making.
• Excellent OO development skills, as demonstrated by the release of consumer oriented applications and services.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Proven expertise developing Mac applications.
• Strong OO design and programming with Objective C (Cocoa), WebKit, Mono, XCode development IDE.
• Strong experience with cross platform development.
• Experience with UML and Design Patterns.
• Subversion experience.
• Wrapping C-Level libraries into Objective-C.

Nice to have, but not required:

• Understanding of text-to-speech, handwriting recognition or Anoto forms.
• Experience developing web-enabled desktop applications.
• MAC USB Driver development Experience.
• Working knowledge of PDF.
• Quicktime, Animation and Leopard Experience.
• Custom interface design.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

PC Desktop Software Engineer

We are looking for senior software engineers that have a passion for creating a great user experience. As a member of the desktop software engineering team, your creativity, technical expertise, great sense of design, and excellent communication skills will be key factors in enabling you to successfully create our state of the art rich desktop applications.

Responsibilities:

• Prototype, design, develop, test, and deliver components of our desktop applications.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of our desktop applications.
• Work closely with the SDK/Tools and Web Services teams to integrate their components and services.
• Work closely with QA to ensure effective development of acceptance criteria and functional tests.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ownership and leadership for projects and assignments.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing consumer-based applications and services that were successfully delivered to a wide audience.
• Experience delivering consumer application in a Windows environment.
• Familiarity with modern agile development methodologies and test-driven, component-orinted iterative development practices.
• Excellent OO development skills, as demonstrated by the release of consumer oriented applications and services.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills.
• Strong OO design and programming skills.
• Experience with UML and Design Patterns.
• Expertise with Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio .NET (2.0), C#, .NET Framework, XML.

Nice to have, but not required:

• Understanding of text-to-speech, handwriting recognition or Anoto forms.
• Experience developing web-enabled desktop applications.
• P/Invoke, C library integration.
• Custom Control development.
• Krypton toolkit.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Senior Hardware Quality & Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a "hands on" Senior Hardware Quality and Reliability Engineer who is a high energy, quality minded individual who has been involved in multiple product development and launch cycles and exudes enthusiasm for product quality bordering on evangelism!

The Senior Hardware Quality and Reliability Engineer's primary responsibility is to identify the current status of the project and to develop the tests necessary to identify potential issues. The engineer will work with engineering to reduce or resolve these potential failures through the implementation of testing protocols. In addition, the ideal candidate will develop and implement long term company wide policies and procedures, and recruit and secure resources and staff to ensure the design and release of high quality, high reliability products to the marketplace.

This candidate will be responsible for testing and qualifying engineering designs at various points along the product development path, reliability and long term testing of final product as well as directing and managing contractors that provide consulting servicing, facilities for testing and burn-in, including environmental and agency testing.

Responsibilities:

• Provide early involvement support during product definition and engineering development to ensure designed in quality and reliability.
• Manage all agencies testing to FCC Standards, EMI/EMC, UL, CE, and ASTM.
• Collaborate with software QA to establish governing product standards.
• Define HW QA Reliability test which will be supplemental to DVT and should be effective for exposure of the HW design and Reliability issues.
• Report bugs to developers and maintains documentation of test results; ensure closure; analyze test results and provide reports.
• Provide review of all test data and establish release criteria for all products entering manufacturing.
• Ensure the various developmental and final versions of hardware meet the product PRD and Functional Specs before releasing to prototype and or manufacturing and passes all reliability and quality tests.
• Develop, write and implement HW QA test plan.
• Develop and execute HW Quality and Reliability test plan with prototype, pilot and release boards and associative products.
• Develop theoretical (using Bellcore) and experimental MBTF analysis and tests of individual components, PCBAs and product assemblies and identify product weaknesses and long term reliability issues.
• Develop reliability testing policies, procedures and protocols to ensure quality product releases and low/no product related quality returns.
• Support engineering with design review leveraging the best and brightest SMEs and suppliers.
• Plan and implement testing strategies and procedures.
• Work with project and program manager and developers to review the DVT test plan and test results.
• Participate in release planning.
• Develop, maintain, and upgrade test plans.
• Manage third party contractors implementing test and burn-in procedures.
• Analyze product deficiencies and test results.
• Ensure customers' needs are being met per functional specifications.
• Utilize defect tracking software to report and record status of testing.
• Review business requirements and functional specification documents.
• Develop standards and procedures by determining minimum requirements for production release, establishing escalation guidelines, communicating processes to development team.
• Assist in testing releases by planning test cycles, tracking test results and informing development of any issues. Accurately document defects, validate fixes, and update defects.
• Provide management with test case coverage and defect metrics to substantiate release recommendations.
• Work with other members of the team to improve our processes, tools, methods, effectiveness and efficiency.

Minimum Requirements

• 10+ years of previous experience as a QA/Reliability Engineer working with development teams in a hardware testing environment
• Working knowledge of FCC Standards, EMI/EMC, as well as UL, CE, MIL STd's and ASTM standards
• Experience with multiple product development lifecycles
• Experience in creating formal test plans and documenting test results
• Experience with cable stress testing and failure and analysis
• Strong working knowledge and understanding of QA process and methodology
• Experience with complete project life cycle of analysis, design, implementation, testing and regression testing
• Proficiency in Windows and Linux environments
• Experience with setup and configuration of hardware and troubleshooting
• Ability to handle multiple priorities, in a fast paced environment while working as part of a team and to apply creative solutions to complex problems.
• Must have strong interpersonal skills, be able to work both independently and as part of a team and thrive on technical challenges
• Expertise in analytical and troubleshooting skills, as well as excellent written, documentation and verbal communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering; related engineering field or equivalent experience

Nice to have, but not required:

• Familiarity with manufacturing processes including injection molding, metal forming and pcb construction
• Experience with handheld communication devices and wireless technologies
• Familiarity with software QA

This is a 4 month temporary position with a possibility of turning into a permanent position.

Development Tools Software Engineer

We are looking for a Tools Developer Software Engineer who can successfully drive the design and implementation of development tools for our platform. Enabling application development by 3rd party developers and by our user community is a critical component of our business model; consequently, our work will play a pivotal role in the success of the company. Your creativity, technical expertise, and excellent communication skills will be key factors in enabling you to be successful in developing extensible java base integrated development environments.

Responsibilities:

• Help define our overall tools strategy.
• Play a lead role in defining and implementing our Java development tools
• Play a lead role in defining and implementing our Rapid Application Development tools.
• Work closely with our application development group and runtime services engineers to ensure that the development tools meet the needs of the applications and leverage the capabilities of the platform.
• Work closely with SQA to ensure the development of effective test plans and test cases.

Qualifications:

• Seven or more years of experience with cross platform JAVA with C++ preferred.
• BA/BS or higher in Software Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent engineering design skills
• Proven commercial software development experience.
• Cross-platform development experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice to have, but not required:

• Experience developing application frameworks
• Experience developing Eclipse plug-ins
• Experience with different graphic file formats and multiple audio formats
• 2D drawing experience

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Senior Firmware Engineer

We are looking for Firmware Engineers who are as passionate as we are about creating our revolutionary pen. The possibilities are limitless. Are you ready to join the revolution? As a Livescribe Firmware Engineer your creativity, teamwork, great sense of design, and excellent communication skills will be key factors in enabling you to successfully create the key solutions in our pen architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Develop device drivers and hardware interfaces for various embedded systems components for handheld mobile device.
• Work with the Hardware Engineering and Marketing teams to create optimal solutions for deployment of emerging pen capabilities
• Work cross-functionally with SQA, Hardware, and Manufacturing Teams to deliver best of breed mobile device.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in EE, CS, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8-10+ years hands-on experience developing firmware for embedded applications on handheld mobile device such as: device drivers, HAL, Audio, USB, Wifi, Bluetooth, Display and NAND
• Experience developing firmware and software that is close to the hardware, such as BSPs, device drivers, boot code, DFU and embedded applications
• In-depth knowledge of C and experience with assembly language and ARM9 programming
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have, but not required:

• Experience as a Team Lead or a Manager.
• Experience with Atmel AVR programming
• Familiarity with digital and analog board design, reading schematics
• Experience with DMA and flash filesystem

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Embedded Systems Engineer

If you have a desire to transform the mobile computing industry, we may have an opportunity for you. We are looking for embedded system engineers that have a passion for smart consumer devices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and implement embedded subsystems to be deployed in a low-power mobile computing environment including hand writing recognition, audio, networking, communications and file systems.
• Overall responsibility for the Livescribe pen's digital media framework
• Qualify and integrate 3rd party runtime components

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in EE, CS, or related technical fields, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years experience developing device software for handheld mobile devices.
• Demonstrated success with shipped, commercial product
• In-depth knowledge of C and experience with assembly language programming
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent teamwork and willingness to mentor others as the company grows

Nice to have, but not required:

• Knowledge of Audio CODECs and low power audio ICs
• DSP and DFT expertise
• Experience with J2ME and implementing JNI/KNI layers
• Experience in the design of digital audio solutions

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Embedded Audio Engineer

We are looking for Embedded Audio Engineers who are as passionate as we are about creating our revolutionary pen. The possibilities are limitless. Are you ready to join the revolution? As a Livescribe Embedded Audio Engineer, your creativity, teamwork, great sense of design, and excellent communication skills will be key factors in enabling you to successfully create the key solutions in our pen architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the Livescribe pen's digital audio record and play framework
• Design and implementation of specialized audio filters and components for deployment in mobile computing environments
• Design, development, and implementation of OS subsystems to be deployed in a low-power mobile computing environment
• Qualification and integration of 3rd party runtime components

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in EE, CS, or related field.
• 5+ years experience developing firmware for embedded applications in an RTOS such as VxWorks or Embedded Linux
• Experience in the design of digital audio solutions
• Knowledge of Audio CODECs and MIDI
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have, but not required:

• DSP experience
• Audio hardware design experience and ability to read hardware schematics
• JNI/KNI layers In-depth knowledge of C and experience with assembly language programming

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

Senior Electrical Engineer

If you have a desire to transform the mobile computing industry, we may have an opportunity for you. We are looking for a senior Electrical Engineer that has a passion for building cool consumer products.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design the next generation of Smartpens selecting cost-effective components in a constrained form factor.
• Work with external CAD layout resources to develop high-volume manufacturable designs.
• Assemble and debug prototypes, managing external vendors as required.
• Work with product test and certification groups to ensure the highest quality.
• Support manufacturing to bring existing and future designs to high volume production.
• Create laboratory experiments to study new components as required.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of experience in electronic design and fine-pitch PCB development.
• Experience with embedded digital, audio, and wireless designs in low-powered space-constrained products.
• Some firmware experience – able to get a design working reliably from the ground up.
• Great organizational and computer skills, including schematic capture.
• Disciplined at product verification and design-for-test techniques
• Good interpersonal skills to work with engineers locally, overseas, and at vendors, and personal initiative to solve problems.

Nice to have, but not required:

• Power supply, charger, and related analog design experience
• Fundamentals of programming (C or Basic)
• Familiar with advanced packaging and manufacturing techniques
• Knowledge of battery properties and chemistries.

Compensation packages include competitive salaries and generous stock incentives. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.