Domain Engineer

Semantic Designs, Inc.; Delaware; On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Competitive salaries

Job summary

A leading software engineering company is seeking experienced software engineers for domain engineering roles. The position involves analyzing large-scale software systems and applying domain knowledge for software generation. Ideal candidates will have a Master's in Computer Science and robust programming skills. Moderate travel is expected. A comprehensive benefits package is offered along with competitive salaries.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale software application systems is essential.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Willingness to moderately travel to customer sites.

Responsibilities

• Analyze software systems and apply domain engineering to real-world problems.
• Build task-specific tools and enhance existing DMS functionalities.
• Collaborate with application engineers and customers for software generation.

Skills

Modeling and implementing reactive systems

Background in compiler theory

Domain analysis techniques

Parallel programming

Optimizing compilers

Formal specification techniques

Independent thinking

Self-motivation

Education

Masters in Computer Science

Job description

Code Search (Find, Follow), Analysis (Metrics, Static, Dynamic, Bugs) and Change (Modernization, Migration, Generation, Optimization, Rearchitecting)

Experienced software engineers who are willing to learn domain engineering are needed.

Semantic Designs offers DMS, a sophisticated software engineering environment supporting two significant, systems engineering activities:

• Application Engineering: the use of previously captured application domain knowledge in the semi-automatic transformation of specifications into application programs and subsequent maintenance of these specifications and applications;
• Domain Engineering: the capture and validation of application domain knowledge used in Application Engineering.

In DMS, a domain is a collection of knowledge organized as:

• application notational definitions: the domain’s language, including syntax and (optional) semantics;
  Such a domain may be a conventional language such a COBOL, or an unconventional language for factory automation
• implementation definitions: the domain’s means for realization in terms of other domains which are "closer" to the target implementation.

Thus DMS promotes comprehensive reuse, both application knowledge and implementation knowledge.

Domain Engineering (DE) is the process of analyzing software systems for the concepts, notations and implementation methods, and codifying that knowledge in a reusable form (in this, packaging that knowledge for use by DMS). As part of a domain engineering (DE) team, s/he will apply DE to real‑world, large scale software application systems. The result of this activity will be used by application engineers to generate and modify customer software systems. This position requires moderate travel to customer sites to interact with a customer at a technical level. The candidate will be individually responsible for implementing large portions of the domain, and possibly applying that domain to customer problems.

The ideal candidate will have a Masters in Computer Science, good experience with modeling and implementing reactive systems, and some background in compiler theory. Knowledge of domain analysis techniques is a definite plus. The candidate will also spend considerable time building task‑specific tools and enhancements to be integrated into DMS, in conjunction with the core DMS team. Experience with parallel programming, optimizing compilers, transformation engines or various formal specification techniques such as algebraic or denotational semantics are a definite plus. Experience in R&D projects producing large, robust systems is a plus. Applicants must be independent thinkers and strongly self‑motivated but must work with both the internal DMS development team, application engineers and our customers to achieve a final vision. A variety of other programming language analysis, translation and analysis tasks are included in the long‑term aspects of this job.

In addition to competitive salaries commensurate with experience, employees will be offered a comprehensive benefits package.

Applicants must be interested in long‑term positions; no contractors, please.

Personnel

• Semantic Designs, Inc.
• 13171 Pond Springs Road
• Austin, Texas 78729
• [e-mail]
• FAX: [phone]

To enable our customers to produce and maintain timely, robust and economical software by providing world‑class Software Engineering tools using deep language and problem knowledge with high degrees of automation.

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