David Coletta from the Buzzword Team here at Adobe just posted an open position with his group. This is an excellent team working on a really great product. New and prospective grads, be aware! Jump on it, because I don't think this position will be open for much longer :)

Position Overview:

Buzzword, the first real word processor for the web, is a breakthrough in collaborative authoring for documents that matter. The Buzzword team joined Adobe Systems Incorporated last year in order to take Buzzword to the next level, building new features, integrating with the Acrobat.com product suite, and scaling up to hundreds of thousands of users.
The Buzzword application is built on the Adobe Flash/Flex platform, written primarily in ActionScript 3.0, an object-oriented language familiar to people who know Java and C#. Additionally, Buzzword incorporates a server that is written in C# using Microsoft .NET and SQL Server 2005.

Responsibilities:

• New features: if you're a strong coder with some Flex experience, you'll get started immediately on important new product features right along side the rest of the development team.
• Bug fixing: there's no better way to learn your way around a big code base than by fixing some bugs.
• Prototyping additional browser support: Buzzword relies on some small but critical bits of JavaScript to support keyboard control and system clipboard access, so we are currently limited to IE, Firefox, and Safari. You would prototype versions of this code for other browsers.
• Load and/or performance testing: In order to gauge future hardware needs, you would write a load simulator for our server, execute it, and analyze the results.
• Writing tests: Buzzword has a built-in automated test framework, with hundreds of existing tests that exercise product functionality and check for bug regression. You would write new tests, and analyze existing tests to remove duplicate functionality and improve coverage.
• Experimenting with Buzzword mashups: there are many unexplored possibilities for mashing Buzzword with other applications on both the client side (in the browser) and the server side.
• Site statistics analysis tools: both the Buzzword server and Google Analytics gather ongoing server usage statistics; you would improve on them and build new ways to look at how our users use the product.
• Secret projects: we've got new products coming down the pike that we can't tell you about in this ad.

Requirements:

• The Buzzword team is looking to hire a recent college or university graduate with a computer science degree or equivalent.
• You should have a passion for writing great code, learning new technologies, and discovering just what it takes to build commercial software.
• You'll receive mentoring from Buzzword team members, and you'll see every part of the software lifecycle: requirements, design, coding, testing, and release.

Contact:

• Erin Fife (efife at adobe dot com) - Adobe Recruiter
• David Coletta (dcoletta at adobe dot com) - Sr. Computer Scientist with Buzzword

Charles