IIP Placements in Brazil
Arquivo Público Do Estado Do Rio De Janeiro **NEW**
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Arquivo Público Do Estado Do Rio De Janeiro is a department of the Secretariat of State of the Rio de Janeiro government that is responsible for the custody and preservation of documentation produced by the State Executive. Their collections bring together important archives from the 18th century through the present day. Their archive has approximately 4,000 linear meters of textual documents, maps, plans, photographs, films, tapes , audio tapes , video, and microfilms. The institution also has an extensive library specializing in the fields of law, history, and archival science. The IIP intern will work in the archives on documentation, research, and conservation of historical material. IIP candidates with basic proficiency in Portuguese and an interest in Brazilian history and culture are encouraged to apply. One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.
CAMPO Architecture and Urban Design **NEW**
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Founded in 2007, CAMPO is an architecture firm that was formed by an international team of experienced professionals in architecture, building technology, project management, urban planning, landscape design, and environmental planning. Operating within an intensively collaborative framework of fragmented authorship, CAMPO’s structure does not follow ordinary top-down hierarchies, which allows for a high performance of reflexive production. CAMPO strives to set itself apart from merely commercial practices through a continuous engagement on processes of rigorous critical thinking that reflect directly on the qualities of its work methodology and production. This condition allows for a very particular design methodology in the practice, one that considers a more horizontal relationship within its team and with its clients. IIP candidates should have a highly pro-active attitude and be willing to learn. IIP interns will be involved in all office activities and, whenever possible, in projects which might provide them with a very broad overview of the design and planning processes within CAMPO. IIP interns will be engaged in (but not limited to) work on the following activities: field surveys, design development, technical drafting, project presentation, and support of project leaders. IIP candidates with interests in architecture and/or urban design and with skills in basic design, sketching, model making, digital modeling (Rhino – preferred/Sketch Up), digital drafting (AutoCAD), graphic presentation skills (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign), rendering (VRay), image post-production (Photoshop), basic quantity surveying (MS Excel), and architectural and urban surveys are encouraged to apply. Spanish and/or Portuguese would be an asset. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.
FIGENER Consultores de Engenharia Ltda. **NEW**
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
FIGENER is an engineering and consulting company that has clients all over Brazil and Latin America. They specialize in energy – thermal power plants, cogeneration plants, energy conservation, gasification, fuel substitution – and develop studies and projects for all industrial sectors: agricultural, biomass, cement, chemical, fertilizer, food, mining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, metallurgy, mining, sugar and alcohol, etc. The IIP interns will participate in all stages of a real project: meetings with the clients, visit to the industrial plants for data gathering and measurements, computer simulations, sizing of equipment and systems, working in a team of engineers, interns and designers to develop the project documentation and many other tasks crucial to project optimization. This placement is ideal for IIP candidates with interests in mechanical and/or chemical engineering, thermodynamics, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and chemical reactions. Computer programming skills would be an asset as would Portuguese and Spanish skills. Two placements have been established for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.
Fulbright Commission/Education USA
Location: Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 to promote the mutual understanding between the people of the U.S. and other countries. It has given more than 255,000 grants for studies and research to Americans and foreigners from more than 150 countries. In Brazil, the program has awarded more than 5,500 grants over more than 50 years. Education USA centers actively promote U.S. higher education around the world by offering information about educational opportunities in the U.S. and guidance to qualified individuals on how best to access those opportunities. IIP interns will contribute to administering opportunity grants, a program for underprivileged students at the undergraduate and graduate level that finances the admissions process so that they stand a chance to apply to U.S. universities; work on internal projects; and help with outreach activities. IIP interns will also assist through corresponding with students and will participate in presenting at pre-departure sessions for outgoing students, and in outreach efforts through giving testimony about studying at a U.S. institution. IIP candidates interested in international education and especially learning about different cultures are encouraged to apply. Intermediate Portuguese and/or Spanish would be an asset. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns. View a Powerpoint presentation (.pdf) by a past intern.
G5 Evercore
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
G5 Evercore is a Corporate Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Private Equity boutique that advises companies and institutional and individual investors on strategies and investment decisions. The G5 Evercore Corporate Advisory group advises on Mergers and Acquisitions and Financial Restructurings for companies across a wide range of industries in Brazil. The IIP intern will be an integral part of the Mergers & Acquisitions group in the Sao Paulo office, working directly with the execution team and assisting with the day-to-day tasks required for such transactions. IIP interns often help the team by researching the financial information and the company history of various potential investments or comparable companies, as well as the main characteristics and trends in a variety of industries in order to assemble presentations to clients or prospective clients. The IIP intern may also be asked to produce market based valuations of companies. This IIP internship program offers an excellent opportunity to learn about the business environment in a dynamic emerging market while gaining valuable work experience. This internship is ideal for IIP candidates interested in Brazilian business and finance. Portuguese and/ or Spanish speaking skills are strongly recommended. One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.
Gávea Investimentos
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Gávea Investimentos is one of Brazil’s largest independent asset management companies with a proven record in financial management in international and local financial markets. Gávea is affiliated with the Harvard Investment Company. It has three business lines: 1) hedge funds, 2) wealth management, and 3) illiquid investment strategies. Gávea's founding partner was the president of the Central Bank of Brazil. This internship is ideal for IIP candidates interested in economics and finance, particularly in the Latin American region. Previous IIP interns have developed and presented specific research topics in the area of macroeconomics on issues of interest to the investment process of Gávea. Fluent Portuguese is required. One placement has been created for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada Brazil (IMPA), OBMEP PROJECT
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) is a teaching and research unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology. IIP interns will contribute to the Mathematical Olympiads for Public Schools (OBMEP) project, a project financed by the Brazilian Government, under responsibility of IMPA. The objective is to provide academic support for students who, due to social or economical conditions, cannot afford a good education. The Olympiad project has resulted in producing many talented students, from the public school system, usually from low income families. In this program the students receive a scholarship, for one year from the Government to improve their mathematical background and skills. The project involves a national examination, a special program for medalists of the three levels (Level III: High school, Level II: 8 and 9th grades, and Level I: 6th and 7th grades). Specific internship responsibilities include providing English training for selected medalists of OBMEP, presenting classes of workshops on elementary (but challenging) mathematical topics, and writing content about interesting elementary problems. This position is ideal for mathematics concentrators, especially those with interests in teaching and/or Latin American studies. An understanding of Spanish and Portuguese would be an asset, but is not required. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.
Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada Brazil, LUA PROJECT
Location : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) is a teaching and research unit of the Ministry of Science and Technology that created and executed the “Lua” programming language. Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language, which is ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has been used in many commercial applications (e.g., Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom), with an emphasis on embedded systems (e.g., the Ginga middleware for digital TV in Brazil) and games (e.g., World of Warcraft). Since 1999, LuaSocket has been the leading API for network access from within Lua. The library is divided into a core C module that provides basic functionality, supported by high-level libraries implementing protocols such as FTP, SMTP, HTTP etc. Although the library is still very popular, there has been growing demand for support for newer asynchronous APIs in the core module, such as kqueue or epoll on Unix, and I/O Completion Ports on Windows platforms. IIP interms will help design and implement the new-generation network support for the Lua programing language. Skills required for the first IIP internship include experience in computer programming in C ,and network programming and Lua programming are desirable. A second IIP internship focuses on state-of-the-art recursive filtering on CPUs and GPUs: Recursive filtering is a basic signal-processing operation that has many applications in computer graphics (e.g., summed-area tables, Gaussian blur, B-Spline interpolation). The dependent nature of the computation poses significant challenges to the parallelization of the computation. An algorithmic framework was recently proposed for GPU-efficient (i.e., massively parallel) computation of recursive filters. A CUDA implementation is being released to the public, but there is still room for contributions. For example, it would be interesting to provide ports to DirectX Compute Shaders, OpenCL, or C++ AMP or provide sample applications that showcase the technology (for example, for higher-quality re-sampling in open-source video players). Finally, the framework may also lead to a highly efficient multi-core SIMD CPU implementation. IIP interns will be mentored through any of these challenging possibilities. Skills required for this IIP placement include computer programming in C/C++, and CUDA. Knowledge in computer graphics or signal processing would be an asset. and Sao Paulo. Two placements have been created for International Internship Program (IIP) interns.
Institute of Studies on Religion (ISER)
Location: Rio de Janeiro
The Institute of Religious Studies (ISER) is a 40-year -ld non-profit institute dedicated to religion studies, human rights, sustainability, and conflict mediation. ISER works on public policy development and assessment and pilot projects in fields related to religion and the public sphere and sustainable societies and violence. ISER is engaged in numerous networks related to religion, security, youth, urban issues, and the environment. Mostly anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and lawyers compose ISER’s body of collaborators. ISER also produces a renowned academic periodical in Brazil called Religion and Society. IIP interns will contribute to ISER's policy research and publications. IIP candidates with interest in anthropology, sociology, political science, law, social services, history, literature, and communication are encouraged to apply. An advanced level of Portuguese would be an asset. Two placements have been created for the International Internship Program.
Visagio **NEW**
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Visagio is a business consulting and information technology firm, specializing in operations strategy, process engineering, organization design, and supply chain and logistics optimization. The IIP intern with Visagio will engage in short-term business and technical consulting projects with Visagio’s clients. Each IIP intern will be assigned to a primary consulting project in a market segment, such as manufacturing, mining and ferrous metallurgy, agribusiness, sugar and alcohol, oil and gas, retail, telecommunications, and finance, among others. Throughout the IIP experience, the intern may participate on the following activities:
- Project management: schedule design and implementation
- Business process management: process mapping and modeling
- Organization design: area/department structuring and optimization
- Supply chain: logistics modeling and optimization
- Business planning: business plan development
- Tool development: computer programming
IIP candidates with interests in business, computer science, engineering, and economics are encouraged to apply. Basic speaking, reading, and writing skills in Portuguese and intermediate Spanish skills are highly recommended. One placement has been established for an International Internship Program (IIP) intern.