Chief Technology Officer for Snibbe Interactive

Snibbe Interactive is seeking a Chief Technology Officer to be a visionary technical leader for our immersive platforms that connect gestural interactivity and online social networks. Your work will extend into all aspects of our products, from scalable computer vision/computer graphics systems, to online social networks, and remote management and deployment of media networks.

Job responsibilities include:

• Architecting new online and interactive systems from the ground up
• Fully productizing software and hardware systems for deployment to non-programmers, distributors, and OEM partners
• Programming and maintaining major system components using industry standard best practices
• Developing architectural and coding standards and providing architectural leadership to the entire engineering team to ensure that all of our products are scalable, extensible, and high performance
• Working with the executive staff to generate ideas for new applications and product lines

You will play an important leadership role in the company's product and technical strategy and its implementation, reporting directly to the CEO. You will be providing visionary and practical guidance to our other talented engineers and collaboratively work with the rest of the company's creative staff.

Key skills required:

• Software architecture and engineering -- a demonstrated ability to architect, develop, and integrate large scalable, maintainable software systems and processes
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable and extensible server and client-side online systems using standard protocols
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing interactive computer graphics systems, computer games engines, or similar systems
• Technologies and protocols: C++, Object Orientated programming, OpenGL, OpenCV, Java, Flash, XML, Amazon S3, YouTube API, JavaScript, Python, PHP, JSP, AJAX, HTML5, iPhone, iPad
• Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Confidence and leadership abilities
• An eye for aesthetic detail
• A demonstrated understanding of user interface design and human factors engineering

The work we do is technically sophisticated, often at the level of contemporary research. The work offers an opportunity to establish a new and powerful interactive medium, and to make a contribution to international public interactive media projects for museums, entertainment, retail, marketing, hospitals, healthcare, and other markets. Please see www.snibbeinteractive.com for examples of our work.

This is a wonderful opportunity for a brilliant, seasoned architect with interests in novel software products, marketing, entertainment, and education, who wants a uniquely satisfying job. Snibbe Interactive provides a positive, playful, and kind workplace with an emphasis on our social mission of bringing delight, meaning, and a new form of social interactive media to the general public. Compensation includes competitive salary, stock options, 401k, and health benefits. The position is available immediately and is full-time, onsite at our San Francisco South of Market (SOMA) headquarters. Please send a letter of interest, resume, and work sample to jobs@snibbeinteractive.com. We will request interviews and recommendation letters from the top candidates.

About Snibbe Interactive

Snibbe Interactive creates personalized interactive experiences that produce powerful emotional responses and social networking opportunities for today's leading corporations, entertainment franchises, and museums worldwide. People use their entire bodies to interact with our immersive products in a process that is as engaging as a movie, yet one in which they actively participate in a socially immersive experience-based activity with others. The media that people create in our experiences can be shared within online social networking communities like YouTube and Facebook as the next step in personalized media.

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