There's a ton of buzz around what it's like working at big tech companies but not much on gems such as NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). For mo...
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Coooool!
I am immensely jealous. Working at NASA would be the ultimate nerd thing to do. I love space and tech so this would be a perfect match. Unfortunately, I'm Canadian, so the process would be a lot to reach at position there.
I was surprised to find JPL is using Github. There is also a couple of tools we use at our job and I understand why some bigger orgs would use them. I loved to read your post. I can't wait for the next one.
Hi! Not all roles require you to be a US citizen.
A big push at the lab is innersourcing code. GitHub is a great too help with that.
So, are there opportunities to get a frontend job when a person a non-US citizen?
Depending on the type of work, a role might be only for US Citizens. Check out the careers website to see if the role you're interested in has that requirement.
Wow,Great to hear about JPL . Let me get this right.
1) Among Data Services team, User Interface team, and Artificial Intelligence team who did the mentioned works as developing the US' first Earth-orbiting science satellite, developing the first interplanetary spacecraft, and sending robots to other planets ? I mean h/w section. AI team?
2) Apparently there is no php for backend. What was the reason not to use php for the works?
3) Which linux distro have you been using lately?
4)Whats the one thing you hate most from the workplace?
5)Last but not least if you ever get to know about extraterrestrial events, are you willing to share here first?
The three teams I listed isn't the exhaustive list. There are probably over 300 teams here with different focuses. Most of the projects are under missions so people from software, hardware, operations, and design are recruited in from across the lab.
There may be some PHP being used at the lab. From my experience I haven't seen any. If an individual wanted to use PHP then they could put together an argument explaining why it would be the best tool for the task. My guess for the limited use would be since it's not a strongly typed language, it's harder to ensure correctness.
I use a Mac for local development and Alpine/RHEL for Docker containers.
Could get pretty slow around here.
Not sure what you mean by this
I was there with my family last weekend. That must be an awesome place to work!
Were you here for the Explore our Universe day?
"A Ticket to Explore JPL" last Sunday.
It was packed. We waited in line nearly an hour to see "The Center of the Universe".
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This was really cool :) Thank you for all the insight!
I love this article
Much thanks :)
Pretty cool! If I were to look in the USA, this would be first choice.
It's been really fun!
Does JPL have any open source projects?