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To: Maya who wrote (48147)	1/6/2000 9:41:00 PM
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Orders Rise For E-commerce Expertise Adam Marcus 01/06/2000 CMP TechWeb Copyright 2000 CMP Media Inc. While the hangovers that accompanied the millennial revelry are now mere war stories, the headaches have just begun for businesses competing for e-commerce. That could be a boon for programmers and engineers in Silicon Valley. Last year saw a rash of fledgling Internet companies spending prodigious amounts of dollars to acquire a foothold in the emerging e-commerce market. As the holiday season sales figures come together in early 2000, "we'll be able to see who made it and who didn't," said Master Burnett, senior-level recruiting, marketing, and digital asset manger at Bozich & Cruz, San Jose, Calif., a tech search company that focuses on staffing start-ups. But while a possible weed-out could mean firings and tough times at the companies that failed to score big over the holidays, those that did should see growing employment needs as they work to satisfy expansion pressures from Wall Street, venture capitalists, and general commercial Darwinism. "We're starting to see pretty big trends on people who build marketing databases and statistical modeling," Burnett said. "Anybody working on those kinds of applications shouldn't have much trouble." Burnett said he foresees continued strong demand for Java engineers on the service side of e-commerce. "They're the commodity that's in demand with almost every client we work with," he said. "Unfortunately, they're in the shortest supply." Silicon Valley's hardware job market this year will be largely dictated by the renaissance of consumer electronics, Burnett said. "We've been building huge networks on the enterprise side; now we're going to move those networks into the home," he said. Such companies as 3Com, Cisco Systems, and 2Wire, as well as broadband concerns like Excite@Home, will put a premium on EEs with networking skills and experience. Clifford Morton, president of ComTech Staffing Group, the Northwest division of Resource Technology in Silicon Valley, said he expects no major changes in the job market for semiconductor personnel. "We expect to see a pretty steady employment picture," Morton said. "Maybe the texture of the picture will change a little bit as some of the delayed budgets come back on line." Arcadia Design Systems is a small Silicon Valley start-up with a cluster of openings. The San Jose, Calif.-based company, which designs high-end datapath solutions and ASICs, has about a half-dozen positions for chip designers and engineers, with titles ranging from senior logic design engineer to senior layout engineer. Applicants for the former post should be familiar with "both RTL and gate-level design, and pathmill experience is a plus." Arcadia is also looking for a director of CPU design. Candidates should have at least 15 years' experience. C-Cube Microsystems, Milpitas, Calif., has roughly 50 engineering openings in both hardware and software. The company needs product engineers, VLSI designers, CAD engineers, and others. C - Cube needs software engineers with EE or CS degrees and at least two years of experience in real-time embedded systems to work on its single-chip home media processors. "Experience with real-time operating systems is a must." C-Cube is also looking for senior firmware engineers with a BSEE or higher and at least two years of experience in C, C++, and embedded systems. And for those seeking to go abroad, the company has an opening for a program manager for its operations in China. Applicants must have at least seven years of experience and be fluent in Chinese (the company doesn't specify dialect). Among the larger companies in the Valley with employment needs, Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, Calif., has more than 100 recent postings. Titles include senior Fortran compiler, graphics software, O/S development, and ASIC engineers. And Sun Microsystems has hundreds of openings for hardware and software personnel.