Careers at Galois
People are the foundation of Galois’ success. As an employee-owned company, we care about not only the technologies we develop but also the path we take to create them. Galois operates under a highly collaborative organizational model that recognizes and encourages leadership throughout the company and takes care of the individual.
We believe creativity thrives in a work environment that respects work-life balance; additionally, our employees’ quality-of-life has a direct impact on our financial and operational results. With that perspective, we provide for employees’ and their families’ well-being by offering a full range of benefits including comprehensive healthcare, employer-match 401K, and employee stock purchase plans. We offer competitive salaries, flexible working arrangements, and a smartly designed office space complete with lots of extra perks. We love coffee and bicycles. We are based in Portland, Oregon, a city that ranks high every year as one of America’s best cities in which to live. Find out more about our the dynamic city we call home here.
Current Openings
Do you want to lead the development of the next generation of embedded systems that transform how we interact with the physical world? Do you want to make secure cloud computing a reality? Can you help us develop and exploit secure, ubiquitous networked devices?
Galois has a position open for a senior computer scientist in our Portland office. This individual will support existing research programs and internal research and development efforts and provide technical leadership in the development of new capabilities and business opportunities. Such leadership may include development of new R&D efforts and expansion of existing efforts. The candidate should be an experienced and recognized researcher in the field capable of envisioning, designing and leading new R&D efforts and large, complex programs.
In this role, you will shape significant research agendas, communicate value propositions and goals to customers and partners, develop licensable technology and prepare proposals to continue development of ambitious leading edge capabilities. We are seeking a leading domain expert in advanced computing. Some domain areas of interest follow below.
- Embedded systems (cyber-physical)
- Hardware (FPGAs, CPU architectures, etc.)
- Systems software (operating systems, networking, protocols, etc.)
Candidates must have a successful record of proposal authoring and project leadership/management experience and must be able to demonstrate success in a position having frequent client and agency contact in a decision-making role. Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, and public speaking skills are essential. The ability to prepare scopes of work and cost estimates, as well as to meet scope, schedule, and budget obligations is necessary.
We strongly prefer education in Computer Science or a closely related field:
- Ph.D. + relevant experience in a research and development role
- Master's degree + 5 years of experience in a research and development role
- Bachelor's degree + 14 years of experience in a research and development role
Additionally, a strong programming background and experience with Haskell or other functional programming languages is preferred. The successful candidate must work well with customers, including building rapport, identifying needs, and communicating with strong written, verbal and presentation skills. He/she must also be highly motivated and able to self-manage to deadlines and quality goals. A track record of working with industry and/or commercialization partners is also strongly preferred.
Our engineers work with functional languages, designing and developing advanced technologies for safety and security-critical systems, networks, and applications.
Galois technical staff members play a pivotal role in developing advanced software technology. Engineers work in small team settings, and must successfully interact with clients, partners, and other employees in a highly cooperative, collaborative, and intellectually challenging environment.
We’re looking for people who can invent, learn, think, and inspire. We reward creativity and thrive on collaboration. We offer great benefits and perks, including a 401K plan, paid vacation, health benefits, flexible work schedule, a casual work environment, snacks, espresso, ping pong and foosball.
Send your cover letter and resume to us at careers@galois.com
We’d like to hear from you! But, we are not interested in working with recruiters.
Internships
Galois offers a small number of intership opportunities to talented students. Read more about the experience being an intern at Galois. If you're interested in an internship position, contact us.