Research Intern - Singapore

A research internship at Oracle Labs will give you an opportunity to explore complex software research problems in the program analysis and application security space. You shall be leveraging any existing knowledge in these areas as well as applying skills and techniques in machine learning, program analysis, taint analysis, fuzzing, NLP, synthesis etc. to advance the state of the art, working alongside engineers and researchers at Oracle Labs.  You will also have the opportunity to tailor the project to your own experience and academic programme requirements, if any. This is a paid position, remunerated in accordance with industry standards.

Project Details

Monitoring and tracing of microservice applications deployed in a cloud environment is a challenge because a single request can span multiple distributed system components as well as cloud-native resources (e.g., autonomous database). Tracing of distributed systems is often achieved via automatic instrumentation using tracing frameworks such as Jaeger or Zipkin. While useful, this approach can be difficult as it requires instrumenting every component of the system.

In this internship we aim to explore tools such as Traceweaver - an alternative to instrumentation-based request tracing that requires no modifications to the source code of the application.  Traceweaver uses request-response time stamps together with statistical analysis to reconstruct program traces with high accuracy

Responsibilities

• Work with the Possum PIE team to identify how relevant tools can help with gathering relevant information without actually instrumenting the code.
• Develop software prototypes as required, to test novel approaches and derive theoretical and practical insights
• Authoring and presentation of technical papers and talks to a wider audience at Oracle Labs

Qualifications & Skills Requirement

• Currently pursuing a research degree (PhD or similar) in Computer Science or related disciplines with strong interest in software research
• Passion for solving real world problems through research and development
• Demonstrable experience in one or more of program analysis including fuzzing,
  symbolic execution, application security and/or distributed systems
• Programming experience in languages like Java and Python,
• Research experience demonstrated by publications in leading venues would be a plus
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English fluently
   

Career Level - IC1

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