Internship
In a meritocratic, open and transparent environment genuine people are always welcome. A progressive company never stops looking at talent; we at QED42 understand and value the importance of one great engineer over 100 averages. We are looking for genuine, talented and smart techies in the field of webware. At QED42 you will be researching on the components of high demanding systems catering to millions of users’ everyday, requiring highly optimized backend and frontend. We see opportunities in semantic linking of data, location based services on hand held, social graphs and intelligence derived out of them. To make these concepts into profitable products we need lot of research and engineering.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for individuals with research aptitude, the candidate should possess understanding of the ecosystem they claim to have experience with. We are looking for technology/language agnostic people who can deconstruct a system in conceptual building blocks independent of implementation. Candidate need to know what they will be doing during internship and need to justify QED42’s time investment in them. If there is an idea you think relates to QED42’s vision then we would like to hear from you.
Eligibility to apply
We are looking for students who can spend 5-6 months at our pune workplace from December ‘09 to May ‘10. We feel grades in curriculum work are not the right judge of ability and creativity, so there are no criteria on grades. Candidate needs to have skills, time and vision. During your internship here you would be spending 20 hours per week in the commercial interests of the company, trying to solve challenging problems and the remaining time working on research problems.
How to apply
If you feel that our association will turn out to be a symbiotic relationship, then apply with the following:
- Your project idea which would contain abstract, how you plan to attack it, what market applications the idea have and why you think QED42 is the right organization to mentor you.
- A brief write up of what your skills are, what is your experience with software and if possible 2 references whom you have worked with (could be a professor or a part time employer).
- Your public profiles (linkedin, twitter, facebook, blog) if any.
- Link to your favorite article on software, computing or technology.
We are interested in both your research vision and your software skills. List your commercial skills and research skills appropriately for us to judge what suits us best. Software skills of interest to us are:
- Experience with web frameworks (Drupal, Django, RoR).
- Languages you know.
- Graphic designing and manipulation.
- CSS, markup experience.
The knowledge of the above is not a must.If you have strong research vision and skills we would love to hear from you.
If you have any queries, please feel free to mail us