Stellenbeschreibung

Location: Berlin (Relocation is on us!)Do you believe in beauty when it comes to programming? Do you have a vivid interest in elegant algorithms? Are you fluent in C++? If so, we would like to meet you.We are looking for smart, creative developers with a solid theoretical background. You should be able to look at a problem from the user's perspective, discuss abstract concepts with fellow developers, as well as produce an elegant implementation. Developers we have hired in the past mostly hold an exceptional master's degree in computer science or even a doctorate. At think-cell, we like flat hierarchies. You will work largely independently, and will be responsible for the whole range of activities when implementing a new feature. We expect each of our developers to do architecture, design, implementation, customer feedback and bug fixing, rather than splitting these activities between several people. We thus minimize communication losses and put everyone in control of their own work. Your ideas are welcome, even if they mean that we have to change a lot of code to make things better.We have published several scientific articles in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Graphics and we will encourage you to do the same. We sponsor visits to conferences and have close connections to universities and research institutes in the U.S. and Germany.think-cell encourages a healthy work-life balance. We do not work at night or on weekends, and support our staff's families with a full-time company nanny. She is available for free when children are sick, or if you just feel like spending an evening out.We pay very competitive salaries, and offer our developers EUR 120,000 annually following one year of employment. If necessary, we will go out of our way to help you relocate to Berlin, and will do what we can to help you acquire a work permit.Find out more about our company and our working environment on our career overview page.About think-cell Software GmbHSince 2002, think-cell produces graphics software that performs most of the painstaking work of creating data-driven slides for professional Excel and PowerPoint users. PowerPoint slide creation is one of the most popular things professionals use a computer for. Thus, it is rather surprising that while intelligent software revolutionized many things we frequently do, such as web search in our browser, or telephone speech recognition in a call center, office productivity software has not changed much over the past decade or so. think-cell is out to change this. We stand out from the crowd of other charting software because we are willing to do the leg work of developing sophisticated algorithms and refining our user interface, which makes working with our software so satisfying for our users. Here are some highlights of what we have done:Algorithmic highlightsWe developed a new algorithm for automatic point cloud labeling that allows labels to be positioned away from the actual points.We developed a new algorithm for automatic column chart labeling.We are working with John Forrest – author of the linear solver CLP – to make his simplex code faster on our kind of problems.We developed quite a few generic data structures that are not in C++ or Boost, for example partitions.Hacking highlightsTo do things which are not possible via the documented Microsoft Office API,  we do lots of reverse engineering with the disassembler IDA from Hex-Rays.We wrote probably the best function hooking engi