Seattle-based Zonar Systems, which provides navigational and communications services for commercial fleets, is opening a new engineering office downtown, where it plans to expand its staff to 100 people. GeekWire notes that the company is already headquartered in south Seattle and has an existing office in Cincinnati, Ohio. In a statement, the company says their new downtown office space puts them in a better position to attract data-related tech talent.
In other tech job news, GeekWire also reports that Amazon is now hiring talent for its first PC game venture. The job post indicates that the new hire will work alongside industry veterans behind Halo, BioShock, Half Life 2 and Gears of War. So far, the 'Zon has focused its efforts on titles for smartphones, tablets and its Fire TV boxes. Given that Amazon purports to have hired staff responsible for some of the biggest games from local heavy-hitters Valve and Microsoft, the development of another big budget game studio in Puget Sound will undoubtedly affect the competition for the region's gaming talent.
