BACKGROUND

AirZip is a wholly owned subsidiary of Willow Technology, a long established middleware messaging software company.

AirZip has a strong and rapidly growing market position with our FileSECURE enterprise rights management and document security software. Our focus since 2005 has been developing the China market where AirZip is now the leader in rights management and document security software. Why China?  Two reasons.

First, China is the hub of worldwide manufacturing, and enormous quantities of confidential and proprietary information (designs, engineering drawings, chemical formula, assembly instructions, costing, etc.) are being sent to, or developed in a place where intellectual property theft is rampant.

Second, it keeps us on our toes! The technical challenge to delivering this type of product in China is much higher than in the North American or European environments where there are also legal frameworks and remedies to help discourage IP theft.  Most of AirZip's competitors simply could not compete in China - even if they did have native language support because they are not secure enough. The tough requirements of this market continue to drive substantial enhancements in FileSECURE functionality at regular intervals - whereas competitors have barely moved in the past 3-4 years.

AirZip has been quietly growing in the North American market as well. We are now extremely well equipped to focus more aggressively in our home territory.

WORKING AT AIRZIP

AirZip employees are an extremely competent multinational group dedicated to delivering great cutting edge products that are robust and simple to use.

We offer an excellent working environment with competitive salary and benefits.  We have few meetings, small teams, a very flat organization, no cubicles and the latest development tools.  If you crave the Dilbert culture, playing office politics or need to be part of a big team to disguise your marginal competence, then please don't apply.

As an accommodation to several employees with allergies, we do not permit tobacco use or the wearing of perfumes, colognes or fragrances.

All positions require either citizenship or permanent residence status and appropriate work permits for each respective work location.

Please email your resume in confidence (ASCII text, Microsoft Word or RTF formats only) to

For headhunters:
We screen and evaluate our own candidates and therefore do NOT review resumes from recruiters, agencies or brokers.

For outsourcers:
AirZip operates its own R&D facilities in a number of countries.  We do not outsource to third parties, nor do we respond to outsourcing enquiries.

For non-residents:
We will not sponsor H-1B visas.

Administrative positions

Administrative Assistant

POSITION TYPE

Part Time or Full Time.

LOCATION

Bellingham, WA.
Relocation: No.

THE JOB

General office duties, including answering phones (light), filing, invoicing, shipping, expense reports.

REQUIREMENTS

• Above average verbal and written communications skills
• Punctual

Marketing positions

No positions available at this time.

Sales positions

Software Sales Representative

POSITION TYPE

Full Time, permanent.

LOCATION

Various.
Relocation: No.

THE JOB

This is a ground floor opportunity for someone with proven ability to prospect, develop and close enterprise software and service sales.  This position requires a significant level of cold calling and face to face selling to business executives.

REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years documented new account sales success and quarterly and annual quota achievement
• Skilled at quickly developing a clear and thorough understanding of potential customer business  issues and crafting solutions to address these
• Security, Rights Management, Document Management, Content Management or PLM/PDM software experience preferred
• Experience using a formal selling methodology
• Pipeline development, forecasting and sales activity reporting
• Strong technical background needed to demonstrate, present and participate in technical discussions
• Superb verbal and written communications skills
• Up to 25% travel

Technical positions

Note to all applicants for technical positions:

We only hire those who can demonstrate advanced analytical ability and programming skill. Though we expect candidates will have completed a BS degree, academic achievement is a secondary consideration. If you  started coding while still in high school (or earlier!) and were already reasonably competent by the time you entered college, you are probably an ideal candidate.

Software Developer (Rights Management)

POSITION TYPE

Full Time, permanent.

LOCATIONS

Bellingham, WA

THE JOB

Join a small world class team building the next generation enterprise rights management and document security product, and at the same time solving a number of incredibly tough security problems.

REQUIREMENTS

• 1-2 years hard-core programming experience.
• C++, C# or Java
• Interpersonal communication with the ability to speak and write English fluently.

EXTRA CREDIT

• Java GUI development using Swing/AWT
• C++ GUI development (Qt 4, Win API, MFC, wxWidgets, Juce)
• MS Office programming
• Multiplatform (Mac OS X, Linux)
• Experience with Eclipse or NetBeans Java IDEs
• Experience with unit testing frameworks (JUnit, CppUnit, etc.)
• Knowledge of code documentation techniques (JavaDoc, Doxygen, etc.)
• Knowledge of object-oriented design patterns - Databases, SQL, JDBC
• Network programming (sockets, HTTP, SSL)
• Multithreaded programming (Java threads, pThreads)
• Encryption techniques and technologies (2-factor, PKI, etc.)

Software Developer (Acceleration products)

POSITION TYPE

Full Time, permanent.

LOCATIONS

Bellingham, WA
Relocation: No.

THE JOB

Join a small team enhancing AirZip's leading networked data acceleration products. You will be working on optimizing performance on a variety of CPU types for existing and new codecs, enhancements to AirZip's patented image compression technology, and development of the next generation of acceleration products.

REQUIREMENTS

• 1-2 years hard-core programming experience
• C and/or C++
• Interpersonal communication with the ability to speak and write English fluently.

EXTRA CREDIT

• Assembly language (x86, x86-64, ia64, POWER, SPARC)
• Compression techniques and technologies (text, image, video codecs)
• Graphics acceleration
• Browser plugin/add-in development (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, Opera, etc.)
• Multithreaded programming (pthreads)

Internships

Software Developer Interns

POSITION TYPE

Part Time or Full Time.

LOCATION

Bellingham, WA.
Relocation: No.

THE JOB

We are offering several 3-6 month internships working in small dynamic teams developing cutting edge new software products. These positions are suitable for recent graduates, those about to graduate and those with less than 1 year employment history. There is a strong likelihood of outstanding individuals being offered permanent positions.

While we are expecting to provide substantial mentoring and guidance during the internship, these positions are open only to those who can already code and are ready to apply their skills to solving complex real life problems.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Java, C, C++ or C#
• Interpersonal communication with the ability to speak and write English fluently.
• Minimum 3.6 GPA