Oracle has six open Usability Internships available in Northern California.

Three of the positions are available at Oracle's HQ in Redwood Shores, CA and the other three are available at the former PeopleSoft (now Oracle) campus in Pleasanton, CA. Redwood Shores is located about 15 miles due south of San Francisco and Pleasanton is located southeast of San Francisco on the other side of San Francisco Bay. Both positions are part of the Applications User Experience team: http://ui.oracle.com The internships require a six month minimum commitment and pay $23 per hour.

At the end of the six months the successful candidates will either be offered a full time position as an employee or another internship for six more months. As an entry level candidate, this is the career path into the User Experience organization at Oracle.

Job Title: Usability Intern

Job Category: Engineering, Internet

Job Description:

Oracle is the world's largest supplier of database software. Oracle software is the world's favorite solution for fully distributed computing. Our products drive applications for sales and e-marketing, accounting, human resources, and manufacturing. This intern position is for 6 to 12 months.

Your primary responsibility will be to work closely with and assist usability engineers. This can include:

• Planning and conducting user research, including methods such as: ethnographic field studies, usability studies, benchmark studies, competitive evaluations, focus groups, phone interviews, user surveys, heuristic evaluations, prototype evaluations, and similar approaches.
• Preparing data collection materials (e.g., discussion guides), synthesizing end user research findings, creating presentations and reports, personas, task flows, and general documentation of research techniques and processes.
• Assisting in all the pre and post set-up necessary for conducting research, which includes: set-up, recruiting participants, understanding business needs and requirements, implementation details, participant follow-up, artifact logging, and data transference if necessary.
• Working collaboratively with interaction designers and other user experience professionals to define and improve the user experience for Oracle’s software applications.

Qualifications:

Must be a graduate student or have graduated from an accredited graduate program in the area of Cognitive, Experimental or Industrial Psychology, Human Factors or Human Computer Interaction.

• Prototyping skills (e.g., HTML, paper, XML, Java) are desired but not required.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills. • Computer skills a must with medium to good typing skills.
• Experience with office applications (e.g., MS Word, MS Excel) and the Internet required.

Note: We cannot pay for travel or relocation.

Contact: Chris Colosimo, chris.colosimo@oracle.com, 650-587-3887  or 650-281-9269