Symantec Inc.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN – NGSF VS3 Eng Team

Duties:
The selected Intern candidate will be part of the Next Generation Storage Technology team which is chartered with innovating in areas such as Archiving, Encryption, Storage Security, Modular Scalable Storage and Distributed Storage Management.

Awareness of emerging areas in storage research, ability to propose new ideas for investigation and prototyping and a strong desire develop those new ideas into products is expected.

Good analytical skills, ability to collaborate with other senior engineers across various groups within the company, getting input from customers, staying abreast of academic research and a knowledge of related activity in the industry will all be need to be successful in this position.

Requirements:
Proven track record of innovation and has demonstrated technology expertise.

Candidates pursuing a Masters or Ph.D. in Storage research areas are preferred.

Strong technical knowledge of Operating System Internals, File Systems, Storage Subsystems or NFS / CIFS protocols is required.

Must have excellent communication skills(verbal and written), be a good team player, self directed and have a passion for innovation.

Important Success Factors:
* Attention to detail
* Focus on quality
* Systematic Problem solving skills
* Commitment to task
* Innovation
* Initiative
* Team work
* Good verbal and written communication skills
* Flexibility

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN – Platforms

Major Responsibilities:
The successful intern candidate will work with a team of file system engineers on performance, scalability, and feature enhancements to the VERITAS File System (VxFS) and Cluster File System (CFS), enhancements to the Linux open source kernel and environment, and porting VxFS and CFS to new Linux OS releases and architectures. Additional responsibilities include taking part in the on call rotation, which handles customer escalations coming to the engineering group, interfacing with customer support, and maintenance activity including bug fixing. In addition to various Linux flavors, the candidate will get exposure to and work with the following UNIX platforms: Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

Position Requirements and Education:
Experience in kernel development and C programming skills is required. Possesses development experience in storage subsystems, system-level programming and debugging on Linux and UNIX. Has intimate knowledge of file system internals, Linux packaging, assembly language and debugging tools such as kadb, kdb, netdump, crash and lcrash. Proven experience writing shell scripts (sh, ksh, perl) is required. The candidate should be a team player able to work closely with other developers and customer support representatives. Pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering and/or pursuing a master's degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Symantec Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes diversity.

Critical Success Factors:
- Passionate about kernels and Linux and high quality software
- Enthusiastic about creating products that dominate the competition
- Ability to learn and grow technical skills and career

Important Success Factors:
- Attention to detail
- Focus on quality
- Systematic Problem solving skills
- Commitment to task
- Innovation
- Initiative
- Team work
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Flexibility

HOW TO APPLY

These positions are posted on CMU's TartanTrak system. Please apply there. Students can work with the career center if they miss the resume drop date, which is February 13, 2008. Initial interviews will be held on the CMU campus on February 27, 2007.