- Company
- Vrije University
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Added on
- 02/03/2010
- Keywords
- c unix
About the Company:
The computer science department at VU University Amsterdam is working on international leading research. Professors like Andrew Tanenbaum, Guus Schreiber and Chris Verhoef are internationally recognized top researchers. Students can join our talent network here at the VU University Amsterdam. We support our students in all possible ways needed for them to join this internationally acclaimed group of researchers.
The ideal candidate:
Here is what we expect from the programmer:
- A university degree in computer science or engineering
- Extensive experience with the C programming language
- Solid knowledge of at least one UNIX system (e.g., Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, System V)
- Some experience with operating systems internals is a plus
The candidate must be able to read, write, and speak English fluently but Dutch is not required. The team is very international and meetings, documentation, etc. are in English.
Job Description and responsibilities:
The Vrije Universiteit is looking for an experienced systems programmer to join the MINIX 3 team to help develop a small and highly reliable operating system that can repair its own faults on the fly and update to new versions without rebooting and without affecting running programs. See www.minix3.org for more about MINIX 3.
The project is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euro awarded to Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum, the project leader. Currently the project has three full-time professional programmers working on it (as well as five Ph.D. students and others) and we want to add a fourth programmer now. The work will involve writing new code, porting software from other systems, improving performance, helping with debugging, and similar things, so a solid background in systems programming is required.
The position is in Amsterdam, a lovely city to work and live in.
Even if you are not interested in the position, you are welcome to go to www.minix3.org to download the system for free (including all the source code) and try it out.
To apply:
Interested? See http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/jobs