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We have two (2) openings for four-month internships with flexible start dates (a longer, part-time duration would be considered).  These openings are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) who require undergraduate students (see detailed requirements at bottom).

Required:

• Undergraduate student
• US resident
• Fluent in English
• Ready to start on a substantial programming project

• Available to work on-site in Alameda, CA 94501

Preferred:

• JavaScript (especially Dojo) experience
• Python experience

• Open source participation/contribution

Job Description:
We’re looking for someone who loves programming and is interested in learning how code gets written in a tiny, fast-moving startup.  You’d be responsible for a self-contained web component for a deployed system under the mentorship of either a front-end or back-end engineer (depending on the project).  Here are some projects we’re considering.

• Implement an “antecedent basis” patent checker using Dojo (see here for an expanded explanation of the concept)
• Extend dojo zoomer, a simple JavaScript image magnifying tool to support arbitrary shape cropping and rotation.
• Extend dojox.sketch, a simple JavaScript diagrammer which we contributed last year, to become more like Visio (e.g. draw and connect boxes, place text, etc)
• Extend Simile Timeline to express a branching revision history
• Implement a differencing view to show changes between revisions (JavaScript and Python/SQL)

• Email-based invitation system (Python and SQL)

Job Benefits:

• $1500/month for 4 months full-time (or pro-rated over a longer time)…start date flexible

• Friendly environment to get real-world experience developing a Web 2.0 application.

Who are we:
We’re a grubby startup in Alameda, CA funded by the National Science Foundation (grant #0750550) to build a web-based patent-drafting software tool. You’ll get to help build a cutting-edge collaborative text and drawing editor that’s optimized to express complex ideas.  Feel free to forward this to others who may be interested.  Candidates should contact us at jobs@teampatent.com and try us out at teampatent.com

Undergraduate student participants supported with NSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. An undergraduate student is a student who is enrolled in a degree program (part-time or full-time) leading to a baccalaureate or associate degree. Students who are transferring from one college or university to another and are enrolled at neither institution during the intervening summer may participate. High school graduates who have been accepted at an undergraduate institution but who have not yet started their undergraduate study are also eligible to participate. Students who have received their bachelor’s degrees and are no longer enrolled as undergraduates are generally not eligible to participate.