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                  JOB OPPORTUNITY: TECHNOLOGY INNOVATOR
                          Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/

Come help us build a 100+ Terabyte archive of the Internet!

We're not talking just Web pages; we mean streaming media, Usenet, FTP
and all the other things that make up the Internet, including things
that are not even around yet.

ABOUT US:

We are the Internet Archive, a research and development institute
created to build a digital library of the Internet. We envision the
archive as a record of our times, useful now and into the future. The
archive is used by researchers, historians, scholars, journalists,
etc. from around the world.  While we primarily focus on the Internet,
we are also developing projects to archive materials from other
important, ephemeral media.

We are developing systems to gather, store, index, analyze, and serve
Internet-based information.  Our technologies will address challenges
such as parallel database creation/access, automatic streaming media
indexing/searching, computational scalability for all of our systems,
and management of hundreds of Linux PCs containing thousands of disk
drives.  Interesting research/development projects abound!

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ABOUT THE JOB:

We are seeking people of exceptional creativity and enthusiasm to be
engineers, scientists, programmers, and whatever else is needed to
make great ideas become reality. This position provides the opportunity
to work on high impact, high profile projects and to push you to your
creative limits.

Your responsibilities will include conceiving, designing and
implementing the core elements of the Archive. Scholarly publication
is supported but optional.  There are many projects needing attention,
including crawler, file management, streaming media
processing/en(de)coding and indexing/analysis systems.  If you have a
particular project in mind, we are always open to great ideas.
Flexibility is a must, since serendipity can strike at any time.

The Archive's hardware includes clusters of Unix machines and tape
robotic systems. We are in the process of migrating the tape system to
disk.  We are working in an environment of mostly open-source tools
and cost-effective commodity hardware.  We expect that most of the
software developed at the Internet Archive will be released freely as
open-source distributions.

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COME JOIN US IF YOU ARE:

* Skillful with UNIX and Perl.
* Strongly Familiar with the technical aspects of the Internet
* From a programming/scientific/engineering background
* Able to document systems and processes
* Pro-active self starter and independent problem solver
* Imaginative and filled with curiosity
* Able to work with inside and outside team members
* Able to mentor other technical team members
* Able to work with non-technical people
* Able to work in an amorphous and changing environment
* Interested in moving the core usefulness of the Internet forward
* Interested in doing things not done before
* Holding a CS, Engineering, Physics or similar degree;
  advanced degree preferred.

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CONTACT INFO & DETAILS:

* Salary commensurate with experience
* Option to live in the historic Presidio of San Francisco

Contact prg@archive.org with cover letter and resume. No phone calls
please. More information about us can be found at
http://www.archive.org/. The Archive thanks all applicants for their
interest, but advises that only those selected for an interview will
be contacted.

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