[this isn't a paid position at this point time]

I am putting together a "semantic applications" startup, with several semantic applications in mind.

The first area I am looking at is data integration and user interfaces using ontologies. I have already written software for both the data integration and the user interface side of things. The software works quite nicely -- it is well beyond a prototype (it's stable, modular, not too slow, etc). The integration side of the software is much more mature than the user interface side (I am no user interface designer!).

I have also written a detailed business plan. I am now actively looking for startup funding (the usual angel, VC, etc stuff), and I am looking for people who may be interested in joining the startup, as both employees, and as equity holders, founders, etc.

I am specifically interested in finding someone with interest and expertise in user interfaces. JavaFX experience would be a bonus as I think it is an ideal tool for the kinds of things I want to build.

This isn't a user experience position, it's an engineering/coding position. The UI person will have two roles. The first is the standard one of writing UIs for the various applications we have. Pretty straightforward stuff. The second role is to build so called "semantic" user interfaces. These are interfaces that are generated from ontologies. This role is very open ended. There is basically an endless scope here for a creative user interface developer, as there are a lot of interesting things you can do when generating UIs from ontologies.

Essentially the person I am looking for needs to be a really good UI coder, plus able to understand what ontologies bring to the table (you don't necessarily need to know this now, but be capable of learning it), and hence how users may want to interact with them visually, plus have a good visual sense, since the UI person will be in charge of the user interface side of our product suite. They must have a passion for understanding and learning how end users want to use both user interfaces and ontologies, and hence how they can support those end users -- we are relentlessly client focussed.

To be clear -- I cannot pay anyone at this point as I haven't got funding yet. So for the moment this all has to be for equity consideration. If we do get funded this turns into a full time job.

We are located on the west coast of the US in Los Angeles, but you don't have to be. Getting quality people is more important to us than having them in the "right" location. If you are interested, or know anyone interested, please drop me a line at graham_at_orangedogconsulting_dot_com.