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Tweag Open Source Fellowship
The Tweag Open Source Fellowship program invites you to contribute to the open-source community via a 12-week paid fellowship. Fellows earn compensation is twice the rates specified for the Google Summer of Code projects, as the duration is roughly double the length. Fellows may work remotely or at Tweag's offices in Paris. Selected projects will be supported and mentored by a Tweag-internal engineer or researcher. A typical outcome would be a mix of a coordinated open source contribution, a new tool or prototype, a scientific research paper, or a conference presentation. As long as the project benefits the open-source community, interpreted broadly, it is a suitable project for a Fellowship; research-oriented or risky Fellowships are explicitly permitted.
Individual projects will be selected twice a year with deadlines on March 30 and September 30. Notifications will be within two weeks of these dates. The Fellowship itself must be started within 6 months of acceptance, at a time mutually agreeable to the applicant and the Tweag mentor. It is expected that the Fellow works on the project full-time during the Fellowship; however, the 12 weeks may be interrupted for holidays, for example.
The Tweag Open Source Fellowship is open in many senses of the word:
Projects must be aligned with our mission to advance the open source software ecosystem in a sustainable way: We believe that a community of users and developers is essential for the long term development of software. We therefore favour reproducible, shareable and composable contributions, and we favour contributions that align with community interests and integrate in larger software ecosystems.
Your Fellowship application will include a project proposal. Show us that you understand the nature of the project and its implications with this proposal.
Project proposals must be no more than 2 pages long and must have the following sections:
1. Introduction
This section gives a broad overview of the project you wish to complete.
It should be brief.
2. Background
Include links here to set the context of your project. In particular, if
your proposal is a contribution to a current open-source project, include
links so that we can learn more about that project. Tell us what the
current state-of-the-art is in the area and how your idea fits within
existing projects.
3. Motivation
4. Project Description
5. Timeline
A Fellowship is 12 weeks long. How do you expect these weeks will break down into the tasks outlined in the Project Description? We know that time estimations are challenging, but we want to make sure that the scope of the proposal is appropriate for the time allotted.
You can append an Annex of arbitrary length to your project proposal that contains detailed explanations.
The questions above are meant to illustrate the goals of the sections, not as a recipe for how to complete the proposal. Write text that addresses these points generally, not point-by-point. You may choose to combine sections, for example, Background/Motivation is a likely candidate for this. Please retain the headers (such as "Background/Motivation") so we know where to look for individual pieces.
Along with your project proposal, in addition to your normal CV, your application will include information about you that is project-specific. It should convince us that you have the experience and background to complete the project as described. It should also demonstrate that the Fellowship experience is fitting for you. We therefore ask for information to place this in the context of your current career and educational goals.
Your personal background document will include the following sections, and is limited to 1 page:
1. Introduction
Who are you? This can be just a few sentences introducing yourself,
likely including your current position (e.g. student, software developer, retiree, etc.).
2. Background
3. Trajectory
4. Working Conditions
5. References
6. Other Details
Is there anything else we should know about you? For example, if you expect to be on holiday when we are sending out notifications, it would be helpful to know that a response may be slow. Or if there is something that does not fit any of the categories above but should be a part of your application, this is a fine place to put it.
Please submit applications via the form below. We will collect all submissions and review them in the following weeks after each deadline. Applicants will be notified by email. Please write additional questions to fellowships@tweag.io.
If you have any questions about the Fellowship, please drop us a line!
Tweag is a software innovation lab that helps deep tech startups quickly scale their engineering performance and execute on high-risk, high-reward projects with confidence. We find the best wherever they live, to build better software by applying mathematics, computer science and the methods of open source. Our core engineering mantras: functional, typed, immutable. These are the key technologies for composable software. We build parts as functions, because functions compose where objects do not. We use types to describe functions, because one type is worth a thousand out-of-date comments. We keep data immutable, because immutability lets us focus on the business logic holistically without getting bogged down by hundreds of corner cases. Tweag is a major proponent and contributor to new ways of building composable software. We are active contributors to GHC, have full-time researchers on staff to fund new language features (like linear types and dependent types), instigated the creation of the Haskell Foundation, and created many new libraries and tools in Haskell. We are the top contributors to Nix and were the first to be labeled Bazel Community Expert, because we’re passionate about the impact of great developer tools.
Compensation
Competitive
Role type
Full time
Visa sponsorship
Not provided
Benefits & perks
Remote Working
Flexible Working
Health Insurance
Weekly knowledge sharing session
Travel expense to visit Paris office
International team
Book budget
Equipment budget
401(K) Matching
Paid leave
$81K - 125K
Full time
Remote
2022-08-20T14:00:12.865Z
$81K - 125K
Full time
Remote
2022-08-20T14:00:12.865Z
$81K - 125K
Full time
Remote
2022-08-20T14:00:12.865Z
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