Job Title –  Research Intern

Department – Oracle Labs

Position role reports to – Project Lead/Research Director

Overall Objective/Purpose – A research internship at Oracle Labs, Brisbane will give you an opportunity to explore complex software research problems in different areas of intelligent application security like software composition analysis, runtime application self-protection, vulnerability detection and remediation, cloud security, threat intelligence etc. You shall be leveraging your existing knowledge in these areas as well as applying skills and techniques in machine learning, program analysis, taint analysis, fuzzing, NLP, synthesis etc. to advance the state of the art, working alongside engineers and researchers at Oracle Labs in Brisbane.  You will also have the opportunity to tailor the project to your own experience and academic programme requirements, if any. This is a paid position, remunerated in accordance with industry standards.

Responsibilities 

• Work with the project lead and the team to identify interesting research problems that will enhance the existing body of knowledge in the selected area
• Develop research infrastructure that aids rapid experimentation and results capture
• Develop software prototypes as required, to test novel approaches and derive theoretical and practical insights
• Authoring and presentation of technical papers and talks to a wider audience at Oracle Labs
• Collaborate with researchers internally in the chosen research area

Qualifications & Skills Requirement

• Currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science or related disciplines or a strong interest in pursuing one
• Available for a minimum of 6 months continuous period on a full-time or part time basis
• Passion for solving real world problems using research
• Deep, demonstrable experience of a few years in one or more of machine learning, program analysis, application security and distributed systems
• Programming experience in two or more of C/C++, Java, Python, Javascript, Node.js, Scala or similar
• Experience of processing large data sets to derive insights would be beneficial
• Research experience demonstrated by publications in leading journals would be a plus
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English fluently 
• Eligibility to work in Australia without sponsorship

Please apply online with an expression of interest, CV and an academic transcript. 

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