The Igalia Coding Experience is an grant program which provides their first exposure to the professional world, working hand in hand with Igalia programmers and learning with them. The program is aimed to students with background in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Free Software development.
This program is a great opportunity for those students willing to improve their technical skills by working on the field, learn how to contribute to open-source projects, and work together with the engineers of Igalia, which is a worker-owned company rocking in the Free Software world for more than 18 years!
We are looking for candidates that are passionate about Free Software philosophy and willing to work on Free Software projects. If you have already contributed to any Free Software project related to our areas of specialization… that’s great! But don’t worry if you have not yet, we encourage you to apply as well!
The conditions of the program are the following:
- You will be mentored by one Igalian that is an expert in the respective field, so you are not going to be alone.
- You will need to spend 450h working in the tasks agreed with the mentor, but you are free to distribute them along the year as it fits better for you. Usually students prefer to distribute them on timetables of 3 months working full-time, or 6 months part-time or even 1 year working 10 hours per week!
- You are not going to do it for free. We will compensate you with 6500€ for all your work :)
This year we are offering Coding experience positions on 6 different areas:
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Implementation of web standards. The student will become familiar, and contribute to the implementation of W3C standards in open source web engines.
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WebKit, one of the most important open source web rendering engines. The student will have the opportunity to help maintain and/or contribute to the development of new features.
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Chromium, a well-known browser rendering engine. The student will work on specific features development and/or bug-fixing. Additional tasks may include maintenance of our internal buildbots, and creation of Chromium/Wayland packages for distribution.
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Compilers, with focus on WebAssembly and JavaScript implementations. The student will contribute JS engines like V8 or JSC, working on new language features, optimizations or ports.
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Multimedia and GStreamer, the leading open source multimedia framework. The student will help develop the Video Editing stack in GStreamer (namely GES and NLE). This work will include adding new features in any part of GStreamer, GStreamer Editing Services or in the Pitivi video editor, as well as fixing bugs in any of those components.
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Open-source graphics stack. The student will work in the development of specific features in Mesa or in improving any of the open-source testing suites (VkRunner, piglit) used in the Mesa community. Candidates who would like to propose topics of interest to work on, please include them in the cover letter.
The last area is the one that I have been working for more than 5 years inside the Graphics team at Igalia and I am thrilled we can offer such kind of position this year :-)
You can find more information about Igalia Coding experience program in the website… don’t forget to apply for it! Happy hacking!