Internships positions: Web Engineering and BizDev
You're passionate about music? Want to join a team working on state-of-the-art Linked Data, Social Semantic Web and NoSQL technologies? Want to work with third-party services to let them know what they can do with our data? Let's join the team! We are currently looking for interns on Web Engineering and Business Development. The internships last between three and six months and are based in Galway, Ireland.
Seevl provides a new way to explore the cultural and musical universe of your favorite artists, and lets you discover new ones by understanding how they are connected. We are a spin-out of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), at the National University or Ireland, Galway. DERI is the world's largest Semantic Web research institute, and Seevl brings together several years of R&D on the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Social Web and Web Science areas.
You are passionate about Music, Social Web and Linked Data technologies. You think that the Web could be a better place for music discovery if data was more integrated, structured and interlinked - and also more open. You want to investigate the related engineering or business development challenges.
Good written and oral communication
Motivation, autonomy and self-organisation
Ongoing appetite for knowledge
Good musical knowledge, whatever the style is
Additional Skills for the Engineering Position
Python, Django, HTML, Javascript
RDF(S), Linked Data, APIs, REST architectures
Additional Skills for the BizDev Position
Knowledge of the Music and / or Web industries
Interest in Open Source / Open Data and related business models
The opportunity to work on exciting and emerging Web standards and to integrate Music and technology in a brand-new product
A stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural workplace combined with a spin-out environment, having strong ties with world-class researchers
Flexible working hours and free coffee
Great. Please send us your resume (or LinkedIn profile), a short statement on why you are interested and some links to your blog and Twitter account to jobs[AT]seevl.net. For the engineering position, please send a link to your github account (or equivalent).