Ask HN: laid back, but still interesting jobs for hackers?

I'm a serial startup engineer who has had a few health scares this summer and am re-evaluating my lifestyle and career goals.

I am looking for suggestions for programming jobs that are relatively low stress, but also at least somewhat interesting. A bonus would be tuition reimbursement for master's degree courses. Pay is somewhat important but not as important as lower stress (doctor's orders.) I've created a short list of employers I am investigating. If any hackers here on news.yc have any other suggestions, I would very much appreciate them. I am located in the Bay Area and would like to stay but am open to all suggestions.

- LBNL (lawrence berkeley labs)

- SRI (stanford research institute)

- staff programmer on a research project at Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford, UCSC

- NASA in Mtn. View