YUI Team Internship, Summer 2010

February 19, 2010 at 3:57 pm by Eric Miraglia | In Frontend Engineering Jobs at Yahoo | 9 Comments

Note: This position has been filled. Thanks to all who applied. -Eric

The YUI team has an opened a position for a summer intern (full details on the Yahoo! internship program are available here). If you’re a college student working toward a CS degree and the idea of spending the summer working on JavaScript/CSS projects alongside people like Douglas Crockford and on the team that created YUI (Matt Sweeney, Adam Moore, Dav Glass, Jenny Donnelly, Luke Smith, Tripp Bridges, Allen Rabinovich, Alaric Cole, Satyen Desai and others) sounds like fun, this may be the opportunity for you.

The YUI team is responsible for development and maintenance of the YUI Library, a collection of JavaScript and CSS components that help frontend engineers create Yahoo-scale web applications quickly. We also build out other parts of the professional frontend engineer’s toolchain — tools like YUI Compressor, YUI Doc, YUI Test, and YUI PHP Loader.

We’re looking for an intern who has completed at least one year of formal coursework toward a CS degree and who has a track record of creating innovative browser-based applications. Both undergrads and graduate students are welcome to apply. This may be a good fit for you if:

you’re familiar with best practices in frontend engineering (e.g., this video should make good sense to you);
you love JavaScript (ie, downloading and watching these videos sounds like a good time);
you learn fast;
you’re not afraid of big challenges;
you’re a full-time student at an accredited college or university.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Email a cover letter, resume, and link to your portfolio to yui-jobs@yahoo-inc.com. Be sure to mention your dates of summer availability.

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This is exactly me.. only I’m not a student any more.. what a pity !

Comment by Totti — February 26, 2010 #
I only want to ask:
I’m a student and I have full time job as web developer, could I still apply for this ?

Comment by Radoslav Stankov — February 28, 2010 #
Radoslav — The internship is full-time for the summer, so you would not be able to do that and your current position simultaneously. However, if you’re interested in a full-time internship for the summer, then you should apply. -Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — March 1, 2010 #
Hi Eric,
I’m currently a senior @Purdue. I have one year full-time internship experience and looking for an internship at yahoo this summer.I sent my resume to yui-jobs@yahoo-inc.com.if you click on my website,i showcased most of my projects i have done so far. i’m really interested in web development,it would be great if there are any open-source project i could work on just to kill my time.
thanks

Comment by win — March 2, 2010 #
10x Eric

I will really have to think this thought, and will see how it will work out :)

Comment by Radoslav Stankov — March 3, 2010 #
Will most of the focus be on YUI 3? It looks like you’re iterating in a different direction than YUI 2, but I have to ask anyways. . .are you guys currently porting any other popular components from YUI 2? Or are you starting from scratch altogether? Reason I ask is, even if YUI 3 is probably faster, because I think building stuff in YUI 2 is so much more fun and under-appreciated by the JavaScript community altogether; IOW, it is more than just a lean hack like jquery. . .it is on the brink of becoming a framework for the front-end. The only problem with these ‘front-end frameworks’ (extjs is like this as well) is integrating ‘it’ as a ‘toolbox’ on our back-end’s workbench. IOW, we need a dedicated browser-based development environment/suite; sometimes I even think the problem is the browser.

Comment by cs — March 4, 2010 #
Chuck — You said a mouthful here, not much of which is related to the internship. Wrt to the latter, the focus will depend in part on the skillset of the intern. It’s very likely that this position will involve building on top of YUI 3.

Wrt to your point that “the browser is the problem”, I think that’s right — YUI 3, jQuery, ExtJS, YUI 2, none of these would exist or be popular if the DOM API gave developers everything they want for building rich internet apps.

-Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — March 4, 2010 #
Hi Eric,
I am a graduate student at SJSU majoring in Software Engineering. I attended the 3 lecture meetings by Doug Crockford and I must say they were pretty useful and informative! Currently I am studying OO Javascript by Stoyan Stefanov. I am looking forward for the summer internship. Should I send you my resume?
Looking forward for the last and final lecture meeting with Crockford at URL on 31st March!
-Rakshit

Comment by Rakshit — March 6, 2010 #
Rakshit,

If you’re interested, you should send your resume and portfolio links to yui dash jobs at yahoo dash inc dot com.

-Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — March 7, 2010 #

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