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Generation X
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11/09/2006
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If you are a committed technologist, then your career decisions may have been guided by an attraction to a specific technology and/or by the potential of working with a particularly distinguished engineering team. But there’s nothing wrong or cynical about a technologist wanting to get a good balance of bluechip/corporate and start up experience under their belt.
The problem with start ups, however, is the dot.com crash marked them out as a risky career option. And it’s a description that companies founded since have had trouble shaking off. But the fact is that, post dot.com boom, there’s a new generation of ‘start ups.’ In the fight to survive in the harsh financial climate that has epitomised the VC community since, these companies have, in general, needed better business cases, a tougher management team and technologies that are more resilient to scrutiny.
Frontier Silicon is one of a number of UK technology companies established since the dot.com collapse. In fact, since its creation just four years ago, it has grown a $45million digital broadcast technology business. The 200 strong company is now embarking on a hunt for some 25 qualified software engineers for its Cambridge design centre, which develops rf ics and subsystems, embedded software and conducts product testing for digital audio and mobile tv applications. So, what are the advantages of joining such an enterprise and just what skills is it looking for?
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Author
Vanessa Knivett
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