Hiring Plans for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Representatives from Lembersky Chi will be in the HUB on Friday, February 25, from 9am to 2pm.
Lembersky Chi Incorporated (LCi) is a company of about twenty-five people, roughly half of whom are directly involved in developing software. The rest of the staff is composed of testing, manufacturing, customer service, and administrative personnel.
We produce an application named "Z-Axis", which is a tool that allows salespeople to quickly and easily design complex office layouts while working with a potential customer. This tool places a high premium on ease-of-use, while also providing compelling 3D feedback. It turns out that the problem domain, assembling systems office furniture, is surprisingly complex. Thus, the tool also needs to excel at hiding this complexity within a simple interface that is accessible to novice users. LCi is working on evolving the feature set of Z-Axis, which currently runs on both Solaris and Windows. We are also starting a project to design and build a second-generation version of the product.
LCi also has an active effort to develop easy-to-use tools to support the specification of new furniture products for Z-Axis. Hiding complexity from the end user introduces the back-end problem of needing to specify complex rule sets for new products. We are currently developing Java-based tools on top of object-oriented database technologies to address this challenging problem.
Finally, we are currently leveraging our expertise in designing and building easy-to-use 3D design tools to develop space-planning tools based on web technologies: client and server-side Java, Javascript, VRML, HTML, and others. This project significantly raises the bar on ease-of-use requirements, and introduces new challenges relating to bandwidth, network latency, scalability, and cross-platform issues.
We are currently looking for a few sharp graduates to join our C/C++/Java development team. A good understanding of C is essential; experience/interest in graphics, databases, network-based programming, object-oriented design, and web technologies is preferable. We work in small teams where every member contributes significantly, so teamwork and communication skills are also required.