PDP-11 Job Posting (Ontario, Canada)

[iWorkWithVintageComputers]

PDP-11 skill set listed for a computer hardware engineer job in Bowmanville, Ontario Canada. Posting #51714, deadline to apply = June 10.

https://jobs.opg.com/job/Bowmanville-Computer-Hardware-Engineer-ON-L1C-3Z8/592648517/

 

[NeXT]

Education Level: Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or Electrical Engineering with Computers specialty

[stares at empty space on the wall, between a 20 year old bowling trophy for a 300 score and an acrylic block congratulating on 10000 youtube subscribers, that was bought with his own money because he was late to the 10000 sub play button boat.]



Even in the 2000's I could find nobody at an institutional level offering programming and administrative education for hardware that old. You're gonna be digging deep in that barrel.
I'll send in my resume anyways because while I'm completely unqualified you should get a good laugh out of it.

 

[daver2]

That's pretty much my job in the UK !

I don't think they will let me into Canada permanently due to my age though...

Dave

 

[Zare]

[stares at empty space on the wall, between a 20 year old bowling trophy for a 300 score and an acrylic block congratulating on 10000 youtube subscribers, that was bought with his own money because he was late to the 10000 sub play button boat.]

[stares at the wall]
[there are guitars on the wall]

I should put my resume in too. PDP is a type of transistor, right? Like PDP DPD stuff

 

[Zare]

On the serious note, I can't really tie the range of salary with the job ad.

The lower range should come to 3000 euro/month, a sum achievable in a mid-level EU economy for a senior, in a very very bland and generic set of technologies. Like the web stack.
The higher range is around good avg European 'expert' salaries but again the expertise is a lot lighter.

For that 3k (if I'm not mistaken in net-gross calc), somebody needs to be

- A self sufficient FPGA/CPLD designer with commercial work to back it up
- Able to understand and participate in the entire process from idea to design to prototyping, testing and production
- Be a polyglot when it comes to languages used and communications protocols used
- Understand software development toolset. Understand hardware development toolset.
- "Thorough background in computer hardware component design and integration"
- And obviously schooled.

With desired qualifications I guess a candidate is placed between those 3k eur and 5k eur monthly.
Desired qualifications can be explained as Unix sorcery. From apprentice druids to full fledged wizards. All in 2k eur buffer.

I may have grossly misunderstood something or made a calculation error. It is not my intent to discuss or criticize, but as someone occasionally interviewing senior software engineers, for a large European tech organization, there is a big disparity which peaked my interest.

 

[MrImprovement]

PDP-11 skill set listed for a computer hardware engineer job in Bowmanville, Ontario Canada. Posting #51714, deadline to apply = June 10.

https://jobs.opg.com/job/Bowmanville-Computer-Hardware-Engineer-ON-L1C-3Z8/592648517/

Clearly they have a lot of old, certified-by-regulators hardware that they want to reproduce or get out of needing to support by replacing the functionality in cycle-accurate new hardware. Neat job but not interested, given that I left Canada like 30 years ago and am glad...

 

[Quagmire]

[stares at empty space on the wall, between a 20 year old bowling trophy for a 300 score and an acrylic block congratulating on 10000 youtube subscribers, that was bought with his own money because he was late to the 10000 sub play button boat.]

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Even in the 2000's I could find nobody at an institutional level offering programming and administrative education for hardware that old. You're gonna be digging deep in that barrel.
I'll send in my resume anyways because while I'm completely unqualified you should get a good laugh out of it.

The money's not bad, over 154K per annum. I live on the Michigan side and in another life I used to trek between Toronto and Montreal. Once outside and northeast of Toronto, there ain't much. I mean you can get potato chips and gas and there's a few Tim Horton's here and there, but you're going to be pretty much on your own. But, at least for a while, I could be hermitized for 3K a week. Go for it. Good pizza back this way.