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Taskflow - OSPO Spring Internship Program

Apply now(opens in a new window) Job No: 509729
Division/Organization: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Department: Data Science Institute
Job Type: UW Student Jobs
Remote Eligbility: Partially Remote
Location: MCARDLE BUILDING
Salary/Wage Range or Lump Sum: $15.00-17.00
Job Categories: Interpersonal Communication, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Digital Technology, Teamwork/Collaboration, Professionalism/Work Ethic, Information Technology and Computers, STEM, Data Analysis

Department Overview:

 The Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is looking to connect interns with meaningful open-source projects as part of a new cohort of the internship program in collaboration with Madison College. During the internship, students will join a mentored open source project, participate in an initial training session, and weekly check-ins with the Open Source Program Office, and learn crucial skills related to managing open source software projects and growing software user communities.

Anticipated Start Date:

 2/2/2026

Anticipated End Date (If Applicable):

 5/1/2026

Remote Work Eligibility Detail:

Partially Remote

 

Anticipated Hours Per Week:

 Minimum: 10 Maximum: 15

Schedule:

 Internship work schedules will be established in collaboration with the project mentors, with a general expected commitment of 10-15 hours/week. In addition to the work schedule established with the project lead, interns will participate in a weekly group session with the OSPO for check-ins, trainings, and guest speakers.

Salary/Wage Range/Lump Sum:

 Minimum: $15.00 Maximum: $17.00

Number of Positions:

 1

Qualifications:

 UW-Madison and Madison College undergraduate and graduate students with applicable backgrounds in any field are eligible to apply. Students must be enrolled in a degree program during the calendar year with at least one semester remaining after the internship’s conclusion.

Application materials should include:
- A one-page cover letter that highlights your qualifications based on skills identified in the project listing and your interest in open source broadly.
- A resume that includes your name, school email address, phone number, field(s) of study (major, minor, degree, certificate), relevant coursework, extracurricular activities, expected graduation date, relevant sample work (ex: GitHub link, personal website, etc.) and any relevant work or research experience.
-The names and contact information of three references.

Submit a resume, cover letter, and three references as part of your application.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

C++, github

Position Summary/Job Duties:

This project will enhance the unit testing facility of Taskflow, a general-purpose task-parallel programming system in modern C++. You will work with the Taskflow team (led by Dr. Tsung-Wei Huang in ECE) to design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks for verifying correctness, performance, and scalability of Taskflow’s core components. The project will involve creating automated test suites, integrating continuous integration (CI) tools, and improving test coverage for advanced features such as condition tasks, dynamic tasking, and GPU offloading.

To sustain the growth and reliability of Taskflow, this proposal aims to strengthen its continuous integration (CI) and testing infrastructure. Taskflow is a general-purpose task-parallel programming system using modern C++. Started in 2018 as a DARPA-sponsored research project, it has been evolving to a popular programming system in the C++ community. As Taskflow continues to attract users and contributors from academia and industry, ensuring robust, scalable, and comprehensive testing becomes essential. The proposed effort will focus on expanding the test coverage across heterogeneous environments, incorporating performance regression tracking, and automating validation workflows to detect subtle concurrency and portability issues. By advancing Taskflow’s CI ecosystem, this project will not only improve code quality and developer productivity but also ensure that Taskflow remains a dependable foundation for high-performance parallel programming in modern C++. Focused CI tasks are outlined below:

1. Performance Regression Tracking:
Integrate automated benchmarking into CI to detect and report performance regressions on representative workloads, ensuring each commit maintains or improves execution efficiency.

2. Thread-Safety and Concurrency Stress Testing:
Develop CI modules that run randomized stress tests to detect data races, deadlocks, or nondeterministic failures, using tools such as ThreadSanitizer and Valgrind’s Helgrind.

3. Static and Dynamic Analysis Integration:
Incorporate static analyzers (e.g., clang-tidy, cppcheck) and dynamic tools (e.g., AddressSanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer) into the CI workflow to proactively identify subtle bugs and undefined behavior.

4. Documentation and Example Validation:
Automate the compilation and execution of Taskflow tutorials, examples, and documentation snippets to guarantee correctness and prevent divergence between code and documentation.

Physical Demands:

Interns are expected to be able to sit for extended periods. Specific physical demands will be discussed with mentors during the interview process.

Institutional Statements:

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

UW-Madison is an Equal Employment, Equal Access Employer committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce.

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background-people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: diversity.wisc.edu

Accommodation Statement:

If you need to request an accommodation because of a disability, you can find information about how to make a request at the following website:https://employeedisabilities.wisc.edu/disability-accommodation-information-for-applicants/
 
 

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