.About The Role Are you looking for an exciting internship where you'll have the opportunity to apply the knowledge you've learned in a classroom setting while simultaneously gaining practical experience in the Logistics and Tech industries? Are you a highly motivated developing professional dedicated to delivering the very best results? Are you looking for a chance to be mentored by industry thought leaders? Then Uber Freight's Summer Internship might be the perfect opportunity for you! At your disposal will be the tools that helped Uber grow to be a worldwide company. What the Candidate Will Do Naturally curious. You're innovative and creative in your problem-solving and you constantly search for ways to tweak and optimize processes. Fast learner. We're looking for interns who thrive with learning new technologies and don't believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. You should be able to adapt easily to meet the needs of our substantial growth and constantly evolving business environment. A great teammate. You believe that you can achieve more on a team -- that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You rely on others' candid feedback for continuous improvement. Participants will get hands-on experience working with operations seeing the day-to-day work such as setting appointments, tracking and tracing shipments, attending regularly scheduled meetings, exposure to leadership, and more. They will also be assigned a special project aligned with company strategic goals and initiatives which they will present recommendations for at the end of the program to a group of executives and senior leaders. Following completion of the internship, participants will be considered for a full-time opportunity. Basic Qualifications Actively pursuing a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical subject area or currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Transportation/Logistics/Supply Chain Management or related field Ability to work in one of main centers of excellence Preferred Qualifications Experience building Search infrastructures, Indexing pipelines Experience with Search technologies (Lucene, ElasticSearch, Solr) Knowledge of stream/batch processing engines (Apache Spark, Apache Flink) Experience working with microservices Experience with storage technologies (SQL, Hive) Keen interest in growing a career in logistics and transportation as demonstrated by coursework, written work, research, internships, etc. Detailed and multi-task oriented (ability to prioritize and manage many tasks) Exceptional interpersonal communications (demonstrated ability to develop rapport and garner trust with peers, customers, classmates, professors, former employers, etc
