Intern Systems Engineering - vespa.ai open source development
It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of nearly 900 million. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world. Want in?
Yahoo brings together world-class technology to prepare, deliver and display content – so users can watch and enjoy on their terms. The purpose of our platform is simple. It delivers next-generation digital experiences for today’s demanding users, whether it be their favorite TV shows, catching up with friends via social media or shopping for the latest gadgets. Built on top of one of the world’s largest networks, our platform easily handles your users’ appetite for instant, secure and always-on media, anytime, anywhere.
At Yahoo, engineers get to change the way over a billion people experience the world - every single day. We’re looking for explorers and risk takers who like to be surrounded by some of the smartest people in the industry while making an impact that really matters.
In Trondheim, Norway, Yahoo develops Vespa.ai - the open big data serving engine that serves both Yahoo and external companies. Vespa.ai is used to make AI-driven decisions using big data, in real time, at any scale, with unbeatable performance.
Organizations use Vespa.ai to solve problems such as structured-, text-, and vector search, and real-time recommendation, personalization and targeting. The platform is open source under an Apache 2.0 license. It can be downloaded from vespa.ai, or used as a serverless managed service at cloud.vespa.ai.
We are looking for a talented developer to join the Yahoo Vespa Team in Trondheim for a 2023 summer internship. Our interns aren't assigned some made-up tasks as a summer exercise; we want your code in production on services serving half a million requests every second.
The 2023 internships span multiple projects - students engaged in machine learning as well as frontend development will work in teams to deliver new open source Vespa.ai features.
The Trondheim Team is 30 developers, located in Prinsens gate 49.
Responsibilities:
Work in an agile environment where we ship features daily to improve the experience and possibilities for our users
Collaborate with engineers across product, design, engineering, and operations to drive past the status quo
Ensure quality of code by writing tests and doing code reviews
Some experience in software engineering processes, tools, methods, test development
Experience with one of:
Java
Javascript (Vite, Mantine)
C++
Linux (RHEL, AlmaLinux)
Bonus: Familiarity with performance measurement, analysis and tuning methodologies for production sites.
Knowledge/experience with the AWS and GCP technology stacks is welcome
Customer-focused, react well to changes, work with teams
Self-starter, team player
Minimum Qualifications:
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