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Based in Silicon Valley, Mu Dynamics is a venture-funded product innovator focused on offering a testing solution for leading network operators, software/hardware vendors, and government agencies. The Mu Test Suite enables our customers to test for the unexpected, and enjoy faster time-to-market, higher product quality, and increased customer satisfaction.
Mu Dynamics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We offer employees competitive compensation packages including salary, stock options, medical/dental/vision/life insurance, and a 401K contribution plan. Mu Dynamics is an exciting new start-up offering an excellent work environment for creative individuals:
- Top notch team with a work smarter philosophy
- Collaborative environment
- Strong sense of ownership of the whole product and company
How to Apply
We are always interested in hearing from outstanding candidates with a proven track record. If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity with one of the most promising early stage firms in Silicon Valley, contact us today by sending your resume to hire-me@mudynamics.com!
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Senior Ajax/CSS User Interface Engineer
Mu Dynamics is looking to hire a Senior Ajax/CSS User Interface Engineer to join our platform engineering team. We have an innovative, dynamic, experienced and fun team. We work with cutting edge technology and frameworks to deliver powerful capabilities in the Mu Test Suite that allows our major network service provider customers, and their equipment vendors, to build and operate higher quality, more reliable and more robust networks that have minimal downtime.
Mu Dynamics helps major network service providers and their equipment vendors eliminate downtime through the advanced automated testing capabilities of our award-winning Mu Test Suite. Our service provider customers need their revenue-critical Next Generation Network (NGN) and Mobile G4 services to be robust, available and secure to eliminate costly service interruptions and consequent customer attrition. Major network operators leverage the Mu Test Suite’s powerful automation throughout their respective service deployment lifecycles. Network equipment manufacturer vendors to the major network operators also depend on Mu to build higher quality products throughout their software development lifecycles.
We are looking for a self-starter, an individual who can learn new skills quickly, and someone who works well independently as well as within a team. The Senior Ajax/CSS User Interface Engineer will report to the Director of Platform Development and work with members of the platform engineering team and other teams to design and develop new software products as well as to enhance our existing products. The ideal candidate will thrive on developing innovative ideas and executing them using Agile/Scrum and Test Driven Development best practices.
Our system is Java-based and uses best-of-breed technologies such as Apache Wicket, Hibernate, jQuery, and Adobe Flex to provide a rich, web-based UI.
This position is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
Requirements:
- Strong passion for developing cutting-edge software, especially User Interface design and implementation using Ajax, CSS, and Java.
- Significant professional experience with cross-browser HTML/CSS application development.
- Significant professional software development experience in Java including JDK5 features.
- Extensive experience writing JavaScript that will perform reliably across different web browsers.
- Extensive experience with web application software frameworks; previous experience with Apache Wicket is highly desired. Knowledge of browser-based rich client user interface frameworks and scripting languages such as Adobe Flex and Adobe ActionScript; previous experience in Flash (Flex/Charting) and ActionScript strongly preferred.
- Previous experience with Test Driven Development where unit tests are integrated from the earliest stages of the SDLC through release strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with Scrum and Agile Software Development methodologies preferred.
- Knowledge of Computer Networking or Network Security; previous experience with user interface development for Networking or Network Security software considered a strong plus.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
Responsibilities:
- Turn functional requirements, ideas and concepts into highly functional and aesthetically pleasing user interface designs.
- Deliver on all aspects of user interface design and development from UI prototyping and final layout as well as implementation, unit testing, integration testing and bug fixing.
- Collaborate effectively with team members from software engineering, software test automation, product management and other groups within the company.
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Senior Protocol Software Engineer
Mu Dynamics is seeking an outstanding Senior Protocol Software Engineer who will be a core member of a software development team whose responsibility is to develop a wide range of service protocol stacks and protocol-based attack vectors. The Senior Protocol Software Engineer will analyze networked communication protocols and model them in software to generate message flows with protocol-specific attacks designed to exploit robustness and security flaws within the services that utilize these protocols (e.g., network operator applications such as VoIP and IPTV plus IMS architectures). The Senior Protocol Software Engineer will develop new service protocol-based exploit methods and speak with Mu Dynamics’ customers and partners to gain deeper understanding of real-world deployment use cases.
This position is located in Sunnyvale, CA.
Requirements:
- Strong software engineering background using OOP, with previous experience abstracting single protocol solutions into robust, flexible, and reusable frameworks
- Expert knowledge of TCP/IP and other networking/application protocols and concepts
- Domain knowledge of higher level protocols in one or more specific application areas (e.g., VoIP, IPTV, IMS, Routing, SCADA, RAS and SOAP-based Web Services)
- Experience with the Ruby programming language (or other scripting/dynamic programming languages such as Python) considered a strong plus
- Previous experience with Test Driven Development where unit tests are integrated from the earliest stages of the SDLC through release
- Familiarity with scrum and agile software development methodologies preferred
- Ability to analyze and decode network protocols from a security and robustness perspective
- Security background with familiarity with security concepts including the following is a strong plus:
- Common programming mistakes that result in reliability, availability or security weaknesses and how to exploit these mistakes
- Black box protocol implementation and analysis
- Protocol security code audits
- Ability to come up to speed quickly on new Next Generation Network (NGN) communication protocol architectures
- Must be enthusiastic and excited about working in a fast-paced software engineering environment
- Self-motivated, resourceful and creative problem solver
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Sales Executive – Mid-Atlantic Region
Requirements:
Mu Dynamics is looking for an experienced Sales Executive with a successful record of selling to service providers (carriers and cable MSO'), large network equipment manufacturers and enterprise class software and hardware companies focused on delivering critical infrastructure within the Mid-Atlantic region. This individual needs to be a highly driven self-starter with a passion for exceeding expectations and making challenging situations appear easy to master. We need a high-energy individual who possesses rainmaker qualities. S/he will drive initiatives and be comfortable making evangelical sales and effectively managing a complex buying process within large organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Accountability for overall territory business results, including annual and quarterly bookings targets
- Accurate forecasting through the use of the Company's pipeline management system, and regular forecast commitments to the VP, Sales
- Develop and execute territory and strategic account plans in support of goals/objectives
- Work with inside sales representative and dedicated system engineer in qualifying, creating and executing business proposal strategies for current and new customers
- Identify key individuals within target accounts, build business and technical champions, and close business
Experience/Personal Attributes as a Successful Candidate:
- Leads from the front with a hunter/closer mentality
- Proven success selling into the service provider/carrier/large network equipment manufacturer marketplace with active, high-level relationships within these communities
- Proven track record with 5+ years of consistently meeting and exceeding quota in high-growth environment
- Someone who thrives working in a highly transparent organization and models character and integrity in all of their internal and external interactions
- Ability to self manage the entire sales process - from lead generation through close
- Strong desire and experience working for an early stage company
- Bachelors Degree at a minimum
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Senior Systems Engineer – Mid-Atlantic Region
Mu's IP service testing solutions provide a fresh approach designed specifically for automated and customized testing of IP services. With Mu’s Test Suite, operators and vendor quality assurance (QA) teams quickly, accurately and thoroughly test IP services across the development and deployment lifecycles.
The company has achieved significant customer traction :
- One-third of the world's 15 largest service provider and cable operators now use Mu
- Mu's customers represent one-half of the revenue in the global network, application and security infrastructure market
- Mu's customers represent one-third of the revenue in the global industrial control manufacturer market
We are looking for a Sr. Systems Engineer in the following locations:
- Mid Atlantic USA (Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey or Philadelphia areas preferred; will consider other locations)
The Sr. Systems Engineer will be responsible for driving sales activities within major accounts throughout their assigned regions. The SE position requires outstanding written and verbal communications skills, experience in sales and/or dealing directly with customers, and very strong technical skills in networking, security, applications and/or protocol design.
Regional travel is required.
Benefits include a competitive salary and commission package, comprehensive health insurance, stock options, and an opportunity to help bring a revolutionary technology to market and to work with leading Service Providers and Vendors on next-generation IP services rollouts.
Detailed Technical Requirements:
Real-world, hands-on expertise in at least two of the following domains:
- Triple-play service delivery (voice, video, and data protocol expertise)
- Next-gen service deployment technologies (IMS, VoIP, IPTV, WiMAX, NGN)
- Core internetworking (routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, RIPv2)
- Test Tools & Automation (Ixia, Spirent, scripting, TCL)
- Security Assessment (VA scanning, pen testing, fuzzing)
- Network Security (firewalls, IDS, IPS, network AV, router ACL's)
Plus the following firm requirements:
- Basic scripting skills required; advanced scripting skills a plus
- Comfortable driving the CLI of common operating systems and networking devices, such as IOS and the linux shell
- Ability to troubleshoot basic networking issues and protocol interaction issues
- Comfortable reading pcaps using Ethereal/Wireshark or a similar tool
Pre-sales experience required:
- Comfortable managing the technical relationship with a broad range of customers and at all levels in the organization
- Familiar with a standard product evaluation cycle, and what it takes to define success criteria and reach technical closure
- Ability to document specific customer requirements, filter as needed, and provide meaningful feedback to Product Management and Engineering
- Ability to understand the business drivers within an account, in order to apply the appropriate technical messaging required to close business
- Comfortable presenting and white-boarding to audiences large and small
- Detail oriented, with strong organization and time management skills
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Senior Implementation Engineer
Mu's IP service testing solutions provide a fresh approach designed specifically for automated and customized testing of IP services. With Mu's Test Suite, operators and vendor quality assurance (QA) teams quickly, accurately and thoroughly test IP services across the development and deployment lifecycles.
The company has achieved significant customer traction:
- One-third of the world's 15 largest service provider and cable operators now use Mu
- Mu's customers represent one-half of the revenue in the global network, application and security infrastructure market
- Mu's customers represent one-third of the revenue in the global industrial control manufacturer market
We are looking for a post-sales Senior Implementation Engineer in the following location:
- North America - role will be based in SF Bay Area, CA
The position will be responsible for driving post-sales implementation services and related activities within major accounts throughout their assigned regions. The position requires outstanding written and verbal communications skills, experience in consulting, sales engineering, tech support, or other technical customer-facing roles, and very strong technical skills including scripting, system troubleshooting, general networking, applications and protocols.
Substantial travel throughout North America is required.
Benefits include a competitive salary and commission package, comprehensive health insurance, stock options, and an opportunity to help bring a revolutionary technology to market and to work with leading Service Providers and Vendors on next-generation IP services rollouts.
Detailed Technical Requirements:
Real-world, hands-on expertise in at least two of the following domains:
- Triple-play service delivery (voice, video, and data protocol expertise)
- Next-gen service deployment technologies (IMS, VoIP, IPTV, WiMAX, NGN)
- Core internetworking (routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, RIPv2)
- Test Tools & Automation (Ixia, Spirent, scripting, TCL)
- Security Assessment (VA scanning, pen testing, fuzzing)
- Network Security (firewalls, IDS, IPS, network AV, router ACL's)
Plus the following firm requirements:
- Advanced scripting skills required – Ruby, Perl, shell, Tcl, etc.
- Comfortable driving the CLI of common operating systems and networking devices, such as IOS and the linux shell
- Ability to troubleshoot basic networking issues and protocol interaction issues
- Comfortable reading and analyzing pcaps using Ethereal/Wireshark or a similar tool
- Detailed understanding of protocols helpful
Post-sales experience required:
- Comfortable managing the post-sales technical relationship with a broad range of customers and at all levels in the organization
- Familiar with standard tech support, troubleshooting, and problem resolution best practices
- Ability to document specific customer requirements, filter as needed, and provide meaningful feedback to Product Management and Engineering
- AAbility to understand the business drivers within an account, in order to apply the appropriate technical messaging required to generate new business
- Comfortable presenting and white-boarding to audiences large and small
- Detail oriented, with strong organization and time management skills
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