– Strategic R&D Communications Intern –

Abbott Nutrition, UIUC Research Park

Who We Are:

Abbott is a global healthcare company devoted to improving life through the development of products and technologies that span the breadth of healthcare. With a portfolio of leading, science-based offerings in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic pharmaceuticals, Abbott serves people in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 70,000 people.

Position Summary:

Abbott Nutrition is seeking a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) student to develop a new communications strategy to communicate and market Strategic R&D’s accomplishments and capabilities across Abbott Nutrition.

A Communications Intern will be responsible for:

·         Developing and improving templates for internal communications such as monthly highlights and quarterly newsletter

·         Writing content for communication channels, internal monthly highlights, and articles to communicate scientific accomplishments in SR&D

·         Interviewing employees for news articles for newsletter or website content

·         Organizing internal SR&D scientific presentations

Qualifications:

·         Must be a current UIUC student

·         Enrolled in communications, media, or related field

·         Graphic or industrial design experience a plus

·         Background in science or health care field preferred but not required

·         Excellent verbal/written English language skills

·         Independent, self-motivated, reliable, and able to meet deadlines

·         Responds well to feedback

·         Well organized and attentive to detail

What We Offer to Our Student Employees:

·         Part-time, paid position at the UIUC Research Park Abbott office

·         Hourly wage commensurate with year in school

·         10-20 hours/week (exceptions made on a case-by-case basis)

·         Flexible work schedule, Monday-Saturday

Position Start Date:

·         Position to begin summer semester 2015 and funded through fall semester 2015

Application Deadline: Friday, April 3, 2015

Interested in Applying?

Candidates should complete an online application at www.abbott.com/careers.html, and under “Search Jobs” use the keywords, “Abbott Research Park – Part-Time Student Researcher.”  Additionally, candidates should send a copy of their resume or CV to abbottresearchpark@abbott.com, attention to Roger Antoniazzo and Dustin Starkey, including a subject line with the position title, “Communications Intern”.

Campaign Manager - CHI

About

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and enterprises make decisions. Our digital advertising hub enables audience planning, media execution, and real-time analytics from a single login, and provides point-and-click access to more than 150 integrated marketing technology partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley and provides its products and services worldwide. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @turnplatform.

Please take a moment to view our award-winning culture video at:http://www.turn.com/working-at-turn/

Campaign Manager

As part of the Turn Marketing Sciences Services team the Campaign Manager will be responsible for executing, monitoring, and optimizing advertising campaigns using the Turn platform.

Top performing Campaign Managers ensure that client campaigns are designed for success, deliver on time, and hit ROI goals. Campaign Managers combine analysis and client feedback to tune campaigns for success, and guide clients in applying best practices to multi-channel advertising campaigns. The Campaign Manager will become a subject matter expert on the Turn platform, educate clients on platform usage, and assist in cross-functional internal projects to improve Turn’s offerings. This is a client-facing role.

Responsibilities:

• Management of clients’ digital campaigns and relationship with Turn
• Provide campaign updates and ensure client success and satisfaction with their marketing efforts
• Grow client spend on the Turn platform
• Report on client growth and profitability internally
• Lead account business reviews and goal setting sessions

Required Skills:

• 3+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering exceptional ROI on complex online advertising campaigns.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills
• A proactive and results oriented personality
• Proven verbal and written communication skills in a consultative, client-facing environment
• Excel skills, including pivot tables, chart making

Preferred Skills:

• Network or Portal experience
• Video, Mobile, Social experience
• RTB/DSP/DMP/SSP experience
• Client-facing Ad Agency / Publisher / Ad Network experience in the digital marketing space

Desired Education:

BA/BS, or graduate degree preferred with a strong academic record

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or equivalent is a plus

Location: Champaign or Chicago

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive base salary, bonus program, stock options, employee development programs and other comprehensive benefits.

Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest located at Turn.com.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Privacy Engineering Job Descriptions

Privacy Engineer, iOS and mobile libraries

Yahoo is the world’s biggest startup! And we’re looking for iOS Engineers.

The Privacy Engineering group is building usable end-to-end encryption into Yahoo communication products. Our goal: Let users encrypt their messages under keys that only they -- and not Yahoo -- control.

We are hiring mobile engineers to protect the privacy of hundreds of millions of users around the world. No background in cryptography require. But a passion for protecting users is.

Our team structure is unique: we’re a small group that is focused on making users’ messages private as quickly as possible. You’ll be responsible for coordinating with product “pods” that are focused on single applications, but will work on code that cuts across multiple products.

Our mobile engineers build Android and iOS applications. Some mobile engineers are at Yahoo as interns or as their first job; others have 10 years of experience or more. They are all strong programmers and strong computer scientists. They have usually been involved in mobile applications before joining Yahoo, but their backgrounds are quite varied. Most of them have at least a BS in computer science or engineering.

Our team is moving fast. Really fast. Let’s make this happen!

Minimum Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

• Programming experience in Swift or Objective C, as well as C or C++11

• Experience in mobile application development

Preferred Qualifications  

• Good taste in apps

• Familiarity with ARMv8 assembler

• Deep technical knowledge of iOS mobile application development and iOS UI frameworks

• Very strong competencies in data structures (tree, tries, etc.), algorithms, and software design optimized for embedded systems

• Familiarity with writing secure software

Apply online Here

Who We Are:

AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013 following separation from Abbott Laboratories. The company's mission is to use its expertise, dedicated people and unique approach to innovation to develop and market advanced therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie employs approximately 25,000 people worldwide and markets medicines in more than 170 countries.

The AbbVie Innovation Center is located in the Research Park at the University of Illinois and provides an opportunity for students and AbbVie’s Research and Development IT group to collaborate on projects to help advance our science. 

Position Description: 

The Part-Time Student Program at the AbbVie Innovation Center, located in the Research Park, is designed to augment AbbVie’s regular staff, and is for students who are able to work in parallel to their school schedule. Major duties include:

• If appropriate, job shadowing or training will be provided for the specific skills
• Creation and integration of controlled vocabularies and ontologies relevant to drug discovery and development 
• Curation and analysis of medical terms and documents, potentially involving text-mining and semantic technologies

Qualifications: 

• Must be registered as a full-time student at the University of Illinois
• Must be able to commute to the work location on a daily basis
• Undergraduate and Graduate students
• Cumulative minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0, or equivalent
• Must be authorized to work in the US
• 10 - 15 hours/week during the academic year
• 35 - 40 hours/week during the summer semester
• Knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word

Preferred Skills: 

• Database management experience
• Familiarity with biology and medical sciences
• Knowledge of text-mining and other text analytic approaches

Note: The position will be hired through a third-party hiring agency and will begin as soon as possible over the spring semester with an option to continue into the Summer 2015 and for the next school. 

To apply: Submit your resume to Masha Trenhaile at Masha.Trenhaile@abbvie.com

Learn more about us at: www.abbvie.com

About Yahoo!

Think about impacting 1 out of every 2 people online--in innovative and imaginative ways that are uniquely Yahoo!. We do just that each and every day, and you could too. After all, it's big thinkers like you who will create the next generation of Internet experiences for consumers and advertisers across the globe. Now's the time to show the world what you've got. Put your ideas to work for over half a billion people.

About the Yahoo CDN Engineering Group

The Yahoo CDN Engineering Group writes the code that runs Yahoo's internal content delivery network (CDN).   We develop the open source Apache Traffic Server as well as internal solutions for content caching, edge security, traffic shaping and routing, and load balancing and failover.   Our code makes Yahoo fast and reliable!

If you have experience building low-latency highly available services, distributed systems, storage, middleware, databases, file systems, content delivery networks, etc in C++ on UNIX or Linux, we’d like to talk to you.

As a Software Engineer you will have the responsibility of designing, developing and delivering key components of the platform. You will also be responsible for ensuring that the quality and performance of the components developed are exceptional and meet the required SLAs. You will work closely with other members of the Engineering team, as well as members of the Testing and Operations teams to solve thorny issues.  You will be responsible for developing robust, scalable infrastructure platforms that are fundamental to all Yahoo services and as a result you will work with many talented Yahoo engineers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Have a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science with 3+ years of industry experience, or a MS CS with 1+ years.
• Have industry experience writing C or C++ in a UNIX or Linux environment.
• Have a solid understanding of scalability considerations in designing high-performance servers.
• Be able to work well independently and as a member of a mutually reinforcing team depending on the context.
• Have excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem solving skills.
• Be able to drive the problem resolution process from start to finish.

One or more of the following additional qualifications:

• Know common Internet protocols such as HTTP, DNS, SSL, and SPDY.
• Know UNIX/Linux system calls.
• Know TCP/IP networking and network programming.
• Understand hashing and caching strategies and mechanisms.
• Use agile development practices including unit tests, functional tests, continuous integration, and continuous deployment frameworks.
• Know additional languages such as Java, JavaScript (NodeJS), Go, Python, and Ruby.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have administered or developed systems that use Apache Traffic Server.
• Have administration or development experience with other common web servers like Nginx, Squid, etc.
• Have designed, implemented and optimized algorithms to improve networking and edge datacenter and server selection.
• Have analyzed and improved efficiency, scalability, stability, reliability, and performance of CDN infrastructure.
• Have designed and developed tools for collecting and analyzing server data so as to help plan future design and expansion of the CDN infrastructure.
• Have a solid understanding of large scale, widely distributed system performance, disk/memory tradeoffs, and caching.
• Thrive in a cross functional team on high profile, critical projects with high reliability and performance requirements.

About the Team

Yahoo is looking for engineers to join the Yahoo Hadoop team. The team has openings in Champaign IL. In this role you would be working on developing the next generation Big Data stack utilizing Hadoop for Batch, Storm for real time, and Spark for Iterative. Hadoop is the de-facto operating system for the worldwide cloud computing industry. Yahoo is the birthplace of Hadoop and has the largest Hadoop install in the world. The server count has grown from a few hundred nodes, to over 30,000 in the past few years. We have over 400,000 cores that process nearly 300PB of data spread over 25 clusters running a mix of Hadoop, Storm, and Spark.

About the Role

We are looking for experienced and motivated software engineers to help build a highly scalable and robust next generation Big Data stack to power Yahoo's data processing needs. The qualified engineer would work on one or more of the following open source projects: Hadoop Core (Common, Mapreduce, YARN, HDFS), Storm, or Spark.

If you have strong distributed systems background, love to solve complex and challenging problems, can work independently, and want to participate in some of the most exciting open source projects, we want to hear from you!. If you want to learn about Hadoop, Storm, or Spark and get a deep understanding of cloud computing, this is the job for you.

Responsibilities:

• Help Yahoo design the next generation cloud
• Understand all aspects of Yahoo's Big Data Stack (Hadoop, Storm, Spark) and learn select components in detail
• Be a leader in open source (Apache Software Foundation) projects
• Design massively distributed technology and develop leading edge cloud computing software
• Work closely with service engineering, operations, and Hadoop users to engineer cutting-edge solutions that allow Yahoo to answer today's most challenging big data questions.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Strong in Java or C++
• Deep understanding of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Performance Optimization Techniques
• Experience with one or more of the following: Hadoop Core, Pig, Hive, Hcat, Oozie, Hbase, Spark, or Storm
• Experience with large distributed data and systems
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques
• Knowledge of database internals and query optimization

Please send resumes to resume-hadoop@yahoo-inc.com

• Statistical analysis to support the overall assessment of productivity across countries using critical KPIs and clustering for Zone comparison
• Develop additional insights and advanced reports for spend prediction, scenario simulation, additional KPIs and trends
• Work with key countries (US, Brazil, Mexico etc.)

Innovation Intern

Located at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Research Park

To Apply: Visit Ameren.com/careers and refer to Job ID # 13760

At Ameren’s brand new Innovation Center, you will work in a fast paced, dynamic environment that fosters innovation and collaboration. The Innovation Intern position leads/assists challenging projects, or conducts research in areas of advanced technology that contributes toward the Company’s strategic investment in forward-thinking initiatives.  Interns gain valuable work experience in various aspects of technology research & development within a large energy company.

Projects may include:

·         Research and develop the latest software and hardware technology as needed by specific business segments and directed by business needs.

·         Research and test advanced business and modeling tools for business/finance application.

·         Assist software/hardware development and support by creating requirements. definition/specification for new applications or enhancements to existing Company systems.

·         Design specific software/hardware components to meet various business needs.

·         Provide technical assistance to developmental projects within Company segments.

·         Create and deliver reports and presentations of project work and results.

The Innovation Intern works part-time or full-time in an office environment at the Research Park of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) campus, but may also need to work off-site dependent upon project needs.  Terms will approximately coincide with Spring, Summer and Fall Semesters.

Requirements

Education:

·         Registered as a full-time student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

·         Completion of 40 college credit hours toward a Bachelor of Science degree required, preferably in Engineering, Computing Science or related fields.

·         Junior, Senior or Master’s student status preferred

·         A cumulative GPA of 2.8 required.

Experience:

·         Proficient in Microsoft Office

Other:

·         Strong research and analytical skills required.

·         Ability to work effectively as part of a team required.

·         Good communication skills required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Location: Champaign, IL

Title: Product Manager

Yahoo’s Advertising and Data team is responsible for the technology platforms that power all aspects of digital advertising on Yahoo and partner sites.  Yahoo powers daily habits for 800MM monthly users and digital adverting is an integral part of the user experience. Yahoo generates enormous wealth of data, which are processed by scalable Big Data systems. Data collected is used to make critical decisions on what Ads will be served, marketplace health, reporting, billing & payments etc.

The Advertising and Data Product team in Champaign is focused on building Data/Analytics products that provide actionable data/insights, which enable better and faster decisions for Yahoo Advertisers and Publishers. Working closely with Engineering teams, the Data & Advertising Product Managers work to break down complex Advertising initiatives into actionable data/analytics that can be surfaced to the customers. The customers of these data/analytics products range from Yahoo sciences/marketplace teams that build models to provide better ads to Yahoo users to reporting/analytics teams that provide insights to Yahoo Advertiser & Publishers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the full product lifecycle from conception, requirements definition, through to launch.
• Communicate product vision, objectives and requirements across Yahoo stakeholders position your product for success
• Prioritize, plan and balance customer requests.
• Drive investigations into business and operational issues that have a direct impact on performance, revenue and recommend solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field is a must.
• 2+ years owning and managing products from concept stage to launch is a must.
• Technical, Analytical and problem-solving abilities with a strategic focus.
• Facilitate working in a cross-functional, geographically dispersed organization.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills with both business and technical teams
• Minimum of two years experience building large scale, enterprise-level software in engineering capacity is preferred. 
• Familiarity with Digital Advertising concepts is a plus.
• MBA is preferred.
• Knowledge about BIG Data technologies/platforms like Hadoop etc. is a plus

Title: Android Mobile App Developer

Position Type: Internship or hourly during summer and/or fall semester

Job Function:  Computer – Design, Development and Programming Engineering

AgLVT is a new startup company focused on enhancing technology, efficiency and value for agricultural land and farm operations.  The company owner/operator recently retired from the University of Illinois and is looking for innovative and motivated team members interested in initial mobile app development for the company during the startup (Angel funding phase).  The company has already received I-Start funding which allows for additional interaction, workshops, seminars and other activities at the Research Park.

Description of Duties and Responsibilities:

AgLVT is looking for an Android Mobile App Developer Intern or hourly to work in development of mobile apps for Android.  The ideal candidate should have strong interest and ability in innovative design and coding of Android mobile app solutions. 

Office is located at EnterpriseWorks in the University of Illinois Research Park, Champaign, Illinois

Responsibilities:

                Work with graphic design and other staff to outline app concepts

                Develop & build high end mobile applications on Android platforms

                Identify and fix bugs

                Adapt and learn new technologies (languages, operating systems, tools)

Required Skills & Qualifications of Applicants:

                Demonstrated experience with mobile technologies - Android 

                Ability to work from graphic design to complete vision

                Experience with Object Oriented Programming Languages: Java (Objective–C or Swift)

                Working knowledge of Android (iOS) design patterns

                Working knowledge of Java (Xcode)

To apply please send a resume and cover letter to rhornbaker@aglvt.com

Title: iOS Mobile App Developer

Position Type: Internship or hourly during summer and/or fall semester

Job Function:  Computer – Design, Development and Programming Engineering

AgLVT is a new startup company focused on enhancing technology, efficiency and value for agricultural land and farm operations.  The company owner/operator recently retired from the University of Illinois and is looking for innovative and motivated team members interested in initial mobile app development for the company during the startup (Angel funding phase).  The company has already received I-Start funding which allows for additional interaction, workshops, seminars and other activities at the Research Park.

Description of Duties and Responsibilities:

AgLVT is looking for an iOS Mobile App Developer Intern or hourly to work in development of mobile apps for iOS.  The ideal candidate should have strong interest and ability in innovative design and coding of iOS mobile app solutions. 

Office is located at EnterpriseWorks in the University of Illinois Research Park, Champaign, Illinois

Responsibilities:

                Work with graphic design and other staff to outline app concepts

                Develop & build high end mobile applications on iOS platforms

                Identify and fix bugs

                Adapt and learn new technologies (languages, operating systems, tools)

Required Skills & Qualifications of Applicants:

                Demonstrated experience with mobile technologies - iOS

                Ability to work from graphic design to complete vision

                Experience with Object Oriented Programming Languages: Java (Objective–C or Swift)

                Working knowledge of iOS design patterns

                Working knowledge of Java (Xcode)

To apply please send a resume and cover letter to rhornbaker@aglvt.com

We are looking for a talented and driven software engineer to work on creating real time GUI applications for our trading machines and risk management applications.
Experience within the trading industry would be great but we'd be equally interested if your background is in the gaming industry.
At Jump Trading, you will find a group of driven, dynamic people with an unvarying focus on staying ahead of the ever-changing markets. As a part of Jump's dynamic environment, whether as a trader, or a member of our technology group, you will have an excellent opportunity to develop your career.
Experience & Skills
• Strong C++ skills, or experience in C# / WPF
• Excellent written and spoken English skills
• Experience in object-oriented design, multithreaded programming, and client/server architecture
• Familiarity with Qt, Visual Studio, STL, boost, C++ 11, Python, Linux, or Git a plus
• Experience in Web development a plus (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, django, node.js)
• Knowledge of user interface development, algorithmic trading, and optimization a plus, but not required

Please apply using our careers page: http://grnh.se/mu1jbh

The HDF Group seeks Applications Software Engineer to develop & document HDF5 library & tools for its Champaign location.  MS Comp Sci or foreign academic equiv req’d.  Working knowledge of the following is required: C programming language, MPI (user and implementer experience), Parallel I/O using MPI-I/O and HDF5, parallel file systems including Lustre and PVFS2, and HPC systems (Cray, BG/P, etc.). Additionally, working knowledge of the MPI Forum, how it works and the ability to drive new tickets at the Forum is required.  Written resume to Human Resources, 1800 S. Oak St. Ste 203, Champaign, IL  61820. AA/EOE/Vet/Disabled

Interns - Applications and Front-end Engineer

About Turn

Turn delivers real-time insights that transform the way leading advertising agencies and enterprises make decisions. Our digital advertising hub enables audience planning, media execution, and real-time analytics from a single login, and provides point-and-click access to more than 150 integrated marketing technology partners. Turn is headquartered in Silicon Valley and provides its products and services worldwide. For more information, visit turn.com or follow @turnplatform.

About the Position

We are hiring software engineering interns to work with our Application Engineering team to maintain and improve the campaign management and data management applications used by our clients. This includes building new features through the entire web applications stack (Persistent storage to UI), using the latest front-end technologies, improving user-application interaction, scaling the storage layer, and keeping the existing systems running and responsive. Some technologies used include: Javascript, AngularJS, Java, Spring, Hibernate, relational and NoSQL databases, and Docker.

Interns work closely with the Engineering Team, Product Management, and the User Experience Team to help design our products. We practice agile methodologies with a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience.

We are mostly full stack developers with exposure to everything – back-end, front-end, and everything in between. Some projects may involve more front-end development using cutting-edge JavaScript frameworks; others also involve in touching the backend infrastructure APIs that interact with our data stores. In either case, the collaborative nature of the team allows you to constantly learn new things and work closely with some of the best and brightest software engineers.

At Turn, what you build has impact on millions and works to better the Internet. You’ll do this in a culture that promotes innovation, freedom, growth, and humor. You’ll work with people who are as passionate about web applications as you are, along with leading experts in distributed computing, data mining, and machine learning who build our backend platform.

Applicants may request a position for summer only, semester only, or both. Interviewing for the Fall'15 semester is already underway.

Location: Champaign, Illinois; On the University of Illinois campus in the Research Park

The recently-opened Turn Innovation Center, located in the University of Illinois Research Park, is Turn’s first engineering office outside of the corporate headquarters and the only innovation center for the company.  The Turn Innovation Center offers the same excitement and challenges working in the fast-paced online advertising industry as Turn’s headquarters, but additionally offers the opportunities for professional and leadership growth of a new and expanding office. The Research Park, consistently ranked as one of the top research parks and tech incubators in the country, offers a variety of social and training events throughout the year. All employees at companies within the Research Park are affiliate members of the University, and receive benefits accordingly (http://www.researchpark.illinois.edu/at-illinois/affiliation-benefits).

In addition to our great environment, we offer a competitive salary, social and technical events, free snacks and occasionally meals, and other benefits.

Please send a cover letter along with your resume when applying to the position of interest located at turn.com/careers. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. No phone calls and no recruiting agencies, please.

Position: Web Application UI Developer- SteelHead

Location: Champaign, Il, USA

Riverbed^®  is about changing the rules. Forget about how things work today – join us as we solve the problems of the future. Do you thrive on change? Do you like the constant challenge of the new? Do you value simplicity? Our intelligent insights and hard work makes things easy for our customers so we can enable them to serve their customers. Can you help us deliver technology without disruptions – technology that just works?

Riverbed Technology is the leader in application performance infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for location-independent computing. Location-independent computing turns location and distance into a competitive advantage by giving IT the flexibility to host applications and data in the most optimal locations while ensuring applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues are detected and fixed before end users notice. Riverbed’s 24,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 95% of the Forbes Global 100.

Riverbed® SteelHead™ is our flagship product, which pioneered WAN optimization in 2004. It remains a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimization Controllers, as it has for seven years.

SteelHead™ has always focused on usability as a key market differentiator. The SteelHead™ web interface gives customers a user-friendly way to configure and monitor a complex, mission-critical appliance.

Our user-interface team is looking for a forward-thinking, usability-focused web developer with up-to-date skills to help keep SteelHead™ at the top of the heap. A successful candidate will have:

Requirements:

·         Able to develop web based applications using Python and Javascript, with some familiarity of C and C++

·         Able to approach problems by understanding the user workflow required to configure and use proposed solutions

·         Able to investigate, understand, and extend existing software in a testable and maintainable manner

·         Able to communicate well at all levels

·         Able to work comfortably as part of a geographically diverse team

·         Able to establish good working relationships in an environment valuing teamwork, responsibility, and mutual respect

·         A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

Bonus:

·         Able to understand and contribute toward discussions around user experience and responsive design

·         Experience with unit testing and Test-Driven Development

·         The ability or desire to work full-stack

·         Able to work in a git-based environment

·         Experience with modern frameworks such as AngularJS, Meteor, or Polymer

Why Riverbed Technology?

We’re a billion-dollar-plus San Francisco-based company populated with high achievers like you. If you want to rapidly develop your career with a company that is also a great place to work, Riverbed should be at the top of your list. Glassdoor recognized us with the “Employees’ Choice” award as one of the top places to work, ranking #17 overall and #9 among technology companies. We’ve also been recognized with a Sloan award for work-life balance, which underscores our core values.

Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ : RVBD ) is available at www.riverbed.com We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer.  M/F/D/V/LGBT.

Please apply by going to the Riverbed Website HERE.

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Position: Automation Developer-Test

Location: Champaign, Illinois

Riverbed^®  is about changing the rules. Forget about how things work today – join us as we solve the problems of the future. Do you thrive on change? Do you like the constant challenge of the new? Do you value simplicity? Our intelligent insights and hard work makes things easy for our customers so we can enable them to serve their customers. Can you help us deliver technology without disruptions – technology that just works?

Riverbed Technology is the leader in application performance infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for location-independent computing. Location-independent computing turns location and distance into a competitive advantage by giving IT the flexibility to host applications and data in the most optimal locations while ensuring applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues are detected and fixed before end users notice. Riverbed’s 24,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 95% of the Forbes Global 100.

We are looking for talented Software Development Engineers for our Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Team.  The Automation Team is creating a test automation ecosystem which uses some of the latest technologies and tools to implement a test framework for Riverbed. The Steelhead product development teams use our test automation framework to validate and verify their innovative features.  Your automation code and designs will enable Riverbed to meet our high quality standards, efficient and agile development goals and release deadlines.

We believe that delivering a quality product requires an investment in good software tools and automation, adds to the challenge of QA engineering, and we want to hire people who share this belief.

Responsibilities:

·         You should be able to compose your software designs using idiomatic python and implement them allowing for most versions of python.

·         You should be able to demonstrate your experience is using good design patterns to solve complex problems resulting in test framework python libraries that are highly usable and extensible.

·         You should feel comfortable in daily use of current development environment tools and common python test tools such as git, py.test, jenkins and pypi.

·         You should be able to demonstrate personal experience with common test deliverable requests from development teams, and how to achieve these through Test Automation. ie. Automated test design requirements, test configuration control and test reporting solutions.

·         You should have excellent troubleshooting and communication skills, as you will be required to work with a wide range of customers.  You will interact with Steelhead development teams to understand their requirements for test automation and then be able to instruct and guide them in the design of their tests using the automation framework.

·         You will also need to be able to leverage good interpersonal communications and written documentation skills for generating guidelines, examples and tutorials to help train groups on the test framework.  

          ·         You should be comfortable with both linux and Windows       systems, with particular emphasis on methods for how to        automate tasks on each type of system. ie. using ssh access,    powershell access, scripting.

·         You should be familiar with typical approaches to Test Automation with different user interfaces system and the pros and cons for each method. Eg. CLI, REST and GUI.

·         You should be familiar with Scrum principals and workflow for delivering your work items and look forward to working as a developer on a motivated Scrum team that values; team empowerment, iterative delivery of working software, close customer collaboration and adaptability to change.

Bonus:

·         You should have a working understanding of network infrastructure components and networking protocols.

·         You should be familiar with virtualization technologies and comfortable with the setup and configuration of virtual systems.  An understanding of working with KVM VMs with virsh / virtmanager would be helpful.

·         Familiar with open source / free tools for resource configuration, eg. salt, chef, puppet or ansible.

·         Familiar with open source / free tools for Windows automation, eg. autoit, Silk, Sikuli or Powershell DSC.

·         Familiar with browser automation tools like Selenium.

·         Familiar with low level network logging tools, eg. wireshark, tcpdump.

·         Familiar with the TestRail test management solution from Gurock.

The WAN Optimization Group

The wide area network (WAN) is the foundation of a globally connected enterprise, enabling collaboration, communication, business productivity, and risk mitigation. When you join the WAN Optimization Group, you’ll have a hand in creating the products and solutions that are critical to everything organizations do over networks. You’ll work with top engineers to break the barriers that constrain businesses, and enable them to run faster and more efficiently. The group’s industry-leading products are built on our patented technology that accelerates applications through data, transport, and application streamlining. RiOS is the foundation of award-winning products, including SteelHead^TM CX, SteelHead^TM EX, SteelHead^TM SaaS, SteelCentral^TM Controller for SteelHead^TM, and SteelHead^TM Interceptor.

Why Riverbed Technology?

If you’re a high-achiever who wants to be part of a dynamically growing, billion-dollar-plus San Francisco-based company, then you should consider Riverbed. If you want to rapidly develop your career with a company that is also a great place to work, Riverbed should be at the top of your list. Riverbed recently won recognition from two of the most well reputed barometers of the work environment. We are the Glassdoor “Employees’ Choice” award winner as one of the top places to work, ranking #17 overall and #9 among technology companies. Additionally, we’ve been recognized with a Sloan award for work-life balance, which underscores our core values at Riverbed. If you can add to our collective talent and unique culture, then this job might be right for you!

Additional information about Riverbed (NASDAQ : RVBD ) is available at www.riverbed.com We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer.  M/F/D/V/LGBT.

To apply please visit the Riverbed Website HERE.

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