====== Ideal Job ======

===== My Skill set =====

I'm more of a researcher.  I research a topic and can throw together a rapid prototype.  I'm also more of an architect as to a developer.  When I look at a hammer, I think it hammers nails.  But when a dedicated software developer looks at a hammer, they see, a claw hammer, ball peen hammer, brass hammer, etc.  To me if it gets the job done, whatever hammer works.  I'm more concerned with hurdles like performance or fundamental hurdles when using one piece of software over another.  Architectural type concerns.  I do enjoy mentoring people as well.

===== Overview =====

Below were my thoughts on this, but thinking about it more, I don't want to move to California, so as to not take up your time and others, let's not worry about it. Thanks for taking the time to consider me.

My passions are Game Development and A.I. research:
  * http://www.jamsolutions.net/Projects/FBXImporter/Home.aspx
  * https://youtu.be/hZVJkNcMXLA

I've spent years in my free time working on those 2 projects.  Also trying to leverage them to get jobs within those industries.

I'm apparently missing something, So I end up as a full stack developer.  I think my talents lie in rapid prototype development and research.  The following are the positions I found that interest me:

  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000IMgEMEA1/?location=menlo-park|Research Scientist, Graph and Identity Research]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCA7LUAX/?location=menlo-park|Software Engineer, Rendering (Oculus)]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1200000IALoWEAX/?location=menlo-park|Research Scientist, Area Operations, Economics and Computation]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCERcUAP/?location=menlo-park|Computational Scientist Engineer (Oculus)]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000MoLHvUAN/?location=menlo-park|Graphics Backend Engineer, Social VR]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCTAtUAP/?location=menlo-park|Data Engineer, Analytics]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LBpWZUA1/?location=menlo-park|Software Engineer, Home (Oculus)]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LBst0UAD/?location=menlo-park|Applied Research Scientist, Core Machine Learning]]
  * [[https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LCMQnUAP/?location=menlo-park|Software Engineer, Computer Vision (Oculus)]]

On a side note, I have a huge list of ideas.  These things just pop into my head all the time:
http://www.jamsolutions.net/Dokuwiki/

Thanks
jeff

===== Interview =====
  * do you search for answers while you code?
  * do you compile code before making sure that it will compile?