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I am indeed fascinated by auction theory. I search out items all the time for the express purpose of auctioning them on ebay in various oddball ways "just to see what happens".

But you lost me at "patented process". I may be in the minority but companies who say such things by way of introduction have uniformly turned out to be the last places I've ever wanted to work.

To each their own, I suppose. Good luck in your search.

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Thanks for the response. By "auction theory," I wasn't exactly referring to messing around on eBay; we're looking to build a proprietary auction system for a specific kind of government asset that will be sold to the public, and we have the assets to ensure that we can protect that system by filing for patents wherever possible.

So that's the idea: we need folks who dig game theory, who think auctions are exciting, and who want to build something entirely new. The fact that it will be a "patented process" should be exciting to the candidate, since many companies don't have the financial backing to patent their processes and/or choose not to as a matter of resource allocation, meaning their engineers don't get the pride of having invented a patented process. Ours will.

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