Jobs at CAIDA

CAIDA's creative, research oriented working environment is intended to be attractive to anyone interested in working at the forefront of Internet development and research. Applications must be formally submitted to be considered. Follow the instructions with the desired position for details.

Job Postings

Career Job Postings

Career and contract positions will be listed here when available.

You must apply through the official UC job posting to be considered.

Postdoctoral Research Opportunities

If you have a specific project in mind that you’d like to collaborate with CAIDA on, you are welcome to submit your CV along with any materials (publications, code samples, references, etc) that would help us evaluate you for a postdoctoral research position here. Please send these materials along with a cover letter detailing the specific CAIDA projects in which you have interest to jobs+net.postdocs@caida.org

Graduate Student Internship Projects

Intern applications are currently accepted. In most cases, intern positions involve intensive coding for simulations of network models, and analysis of real network data. Successful interns may be later re-hired as postdocs.

Please also see our list of projects looking for students to see some work we’re hoping to get help on.

To apply for graduate student internship projects, prepare the following email:

Title as “Prospective Student: YourName - YourAffliation”
Briefly introduce what research problem that you are interested in. What are the current state-of-the-art solutions and why do you think you can further improve over them?
Briefly introduce yourself, including education background, research experiences, and programming skills.
Briefly explain your motivations and expectations of working with CAIDA.
Include a PDF version of your CV.

Send the prepared email to jobs+net.interns@caida.org to be evaluated and follow up after a week.

Undergraduate Student Job Postings

Undergraduate applications for available postings should be submitted through Handshake for consideration, unless otherwise indicated.

Per federal funding requirements of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, students must be a U.S. citizen, U.S. National, or a Permanent Resident of the United States to be eligible for REU positions.

Search CAIDA jobs on Handshake for any recently posted positions for undergraduate students (login required).

Proposed Student Projects

We have a list of opportunities for students to participate in CAIDA research projects. We hope these projects looking for students can attract those interested in working at the forefront of Internet development, measurement, modeling, and research.

No proposed student project opportunities are available at this time. Look at the existing CAIDA projects to see where your skills might be a good fit.

CAIDA Sabbatical

CAIDA supports a sabbatical program for Internet engineers, vendors, researchers, and faculty to take a brief respite from their normal day-to-day engineering, product development, or teaching duties, in order to lend their expertise to the advancement of larger Internet evolution issues.