Dextro
Backend Web Engineer Intern
www.dextrorobotics.com
Dextro is seeking summer interns to join our small team of computer vision engineers from iRobot, Microsoft, UPenn GRASP Lab, and Yale. Dextro, founded in 2011, is a cloud service that recognizes objects in photos and videos with the goal of turning a picture into its thousand words. We have several enterprise partnerships and work with hundreds of makers and hackers; our only HN post spent a day as #1.
Requirements:
  * Interest in teaching mobile devices, robots, and webapps new tricks.
  * Interest in helping computers interface with the unstructured real world.
  * Desire to work with the whole gamut of technologies,
       and the desire to learn what you don’t know.
  * Hunger. Both for success, and for meals with the team.

  * Must be highly proficient with either Python or both Rails and Ruby.
       Must be willing to learn the other.
  * Must be comfortable working and scripting in a Linux command line environment.
  * Bonus: proficiency in JavaScript and frontend web design, or 
       skill and interest in designing high-performance backend cloud infrastructure.

If you’re good at backend web development and are also interested in vision, we’ll make sure you’ll get to learn on the job.
Logistics:
  * $5000
  * 12 weeks
  * Breakfast and lunch provided

Interested? Email David Luan at david.luan [[]] dextrorobotics.com