I have no idea whether members of this list are interested in these kinds of jobs, but hey, can't hurt to ask. For the next 3 months (until April 30), Farallon Communications is trying to focus on filling several key engineering positions in the Netopia and LAN groups. (Netopia is a product line of ISDN devices) My wife works at Farallon in product marketing for Netopia stuff. They started out as a Macintosh networking company and have gone "Internet." Firmware Engineers: 3 for Netopia and 1 for LAN Hardware Engineers: 1 for Netopia and 1 for LAN There is some flexibility for the firmware positions to work either in Alameda or San Jose. I'm not sure about the job descriptions; I just looked at http://www.farallon.com/corp/jobs/index.html and this might accurately describe some of the positions mentioned above: Sr. Staff Engineer (WAN) -- San Jose and Alameda 4 Openings Senior member of the software development team responsible for architecture, design and implementation of embedded systems firmware on new and existing WAN products. Hands-on design position requiring a BSCS or a BSEE with advanced degree preferred. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years networking or telecommunications development experience and expert knowledge of multi-protocol routing and bridging. Expertise in networking layer technologies/protocols and data compression required. Lee Tien