Catered lunches. Free munchies and sodas. Stock options. Competitive salaries. Great health plan. Fun office. We are a venture-backed company located in the heart of the Dulles Technology Corridor. We are currently working on several exciting online solutions in the interactive advertising space. You will get the chance to work alongside other tremendously talented individuals. Our taxonomy and coding teams includes some of the brightest minds in the industry. Our technology team has millions of lines of code under their belts. Our management team has founded successful ventures on both coasts. We are passionate about our work and devoted to the opportunity and we are looking for the same kind of people to join our team.

LucidMedia is looking for smart web engineers who can analyze and develop tools for customer tracking. If you are a high-energy technology expert, please feel welcome to send in your resumes to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   or LucidMedia, Inc., 11490 Commerce Park Dr., Ste. 220, Reston, VA 20191.

Software Engineer
Product Manager
Taxonomy Editor

02/12/2008
Software Engineer

LucidMedia's engineering team designs, develops and executes projects which use cutting edge technologies like AJAX, RDF, and the Semantic Web. LucidMedia's products are high end systems designed on GRID/distributed technology and can scale up both vertically and horizontally.

If you are an engineer who likes to live on the edge and develops new and interesting ideas, we are the company for you. We have a history of turning innovative new ideas into profitable production systems.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Software Engineer is responsible for:

• Developing and tuning exceptionally high-speed and high-volume applications. (Current applications process over 1 billion transactions per month with 99.999% uptime)
• Build in-house tools to analyze and optimize production systems.
• Enhance categorization and yield algorithms.

REQUIRED SKILL SET & QUALIFICATIONS:

• BS (MS preferred) in any of the following fields: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics
• Strong Java skills (not just J2EE skills).
• Knowledge about language features (e.g., abstract class vs. interface, generic types, trade-offs when making choices within the language).
• Strong data structure skills including implementation.
• Must understand trade-offs between choosing one over the other.
• Must be able to walk through choice of data structures for a real-life problem.
• Good algorithm skills. Must know searching/sorting algorithms and able to analyse complexity.
• Must be able to choose algorithms for a real-life problem.
• Experience in a high-performance computing job, whether it involved high traffic, or low latency, or high throughput, or focus on resource usage, etc.
• Knowledge of technologies like Ant/Maven/make, JUnit, any source control system (e.g., CVS, SVN, ClearCase, Perforce), any bug tracking system (e.g., Mantis, BugZilla, TestTrack), log4j, etc.

07/07/2008
Product Manager, Ad Serving Platforms

LucidMedia is seeking a creative and entrepreneurial Product Manager for our ad serving platform to help shape our interactive media future offerings. This is a ground floor opportunity as we build out our Marketing and Product Management team in preparation for rapid growth. The Product Manager position requires an aggressive, energetic, experienced, detail oriented self-starter with a track record of managing complex online products and increasing levels of responsibility. The ideal candidate should be passionate about creating high-quality, user friendly products that are competitive and exceed the expectations of the industry. To be considered, candidates must have experience developing and managing product requirements, a basic understanding of ad serving technologies, and a general knowledge of the ad network industry.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Research - Understand the ad serving, interactive media and online ad industry to define competitive and complete product requirements.
• Define - Create and maintain product market requirements documentation and drive technical specifications within the engineering teams.
• Compete - Define and monitor the industry landscape to maintain a competitive matrix that is complete and up-to-date.
• Communicate - Act as the central repository and key communicator for all the product features and benefits, schedules, interdependencies and delivery dates.
• Manage - Bridge business development, marketing, public relations and engineering in defining the feature set, business cases, and product roadmap.
• Launch, Develop, socialize and own product and feature release schedules by liaising with business development, marketing, public relations and engineering.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Experienced - The qualified candidate will be a seasoned product management professional from the ad network, ad serving or ad management industry with a minimum of 3 years direct product management experience with a software company delivering online, ad serving and ad management solutions.
• Technical - Qualified candidates will have a technical background, experience with ad servers such as DART or Atlas, a proven knowledge of the product management process, and a general knowledge of current internet technologies such as Java and J2EE.
• Strategic - The optimum candidate will be an out-of-the-box thinker and technical strategist willing to define their own processes and introduce new ideas while driving them across a fast moving organization.

Education:

• At least a Bachelors degree is required.
• A Masters degree, MBA or certification in formal product management practices such as the Pragmatic Marketing, Inc. program is highly desirable.

Taxonomy Editor

Do you have a Bachelors in Liberal Arts? Not exactly sure what to do with the degree you worked so hard for? Well, we have the perfect opportunity for you! If you would love a dynamic work environment where you will be encouraged to think independently and develop new ideas, then we want to meet you! We have a history of developing innovative ideas intro profitable enterprise and are looking for enthusiastic and talented individuals to come to work with us in our Reston office and help take our company to its next exciting level.

We are looking for bright, creative individuals with the skills to take full advantage of what we have to offer.

As a Taxonomy Editor, you will be responsible for:

• Provide technical direction to enterprise content initiatives
• Assist in the development of new taxonomy structures and control vocabularies, ensuring they meet general taxonomy guidelines
• Implement and oversee taxonomy governance processes
• Create and maintain processes to synchronize systems to support content workflow and publishing of content to various Web properties
• Support the seamless integration of the content management system with other disparate systems
• Research and identify or develop new products, platforms, tools, and processes to enhance current services or to deliver new services
• Provide support to users, including resolution of conflicts between business areas
• Tracking and resolving taxonomy management issues
• Coordinate with publishers to organize website materials per assigned unit needs; identifies those to have security access, necessary programming needs, and those responsible for various aspects of web creation, maintenance, etc. Assigns access rights to web content to restrict access to specific users
• Coordinate and facilitate the publishing activities regarding design, creation, and production of the web site
• Organizes and maintains the content infrastructure of a web site

Minimum Educational Requirements
Bachelor Degree in Liberal Arts (e.g., Linguistics, Philosophy, English, History, or related fields), Bachelor Degree in Library Science or Information Science.