FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

Job Summary

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Job Description

Program Overview

Discover opportunities designed to set your career in motion! The Comcast internship/co-op program will help you cultivate meaningful relationships, develop strong interpersonal and business skills, gain exposure to the day-to-day operations of a Fortune 40 media and technology company, and receive mentorship opportunities to expand your professional network.

This program immerses students into the daily operation of a contemporary media and technology company while working side-by-side with Comcast’s top innovators. The student becomes an integral part of the Comcast team working on creative, innovative, and thought-provoking projects within various business units.

Organization & Team Overview

FreeWheel helps the television industry to monetize their premium contents through a robust

technology platform, which enables consumers to view high quality videos on any devices including PC, smart phone, OTT device, set-top box and traditional TV.

FreeWheel’s New York Engineering Hub is a core part of our global engineering group that is building the one-stop solution for TV industry to manage its billion-dollar revenue. Our tech platform is capable of handling billions of daily requests, processing terabytes of raw daily data, and optimizing clients’ business.

Role Description

FreeWheel's TV Platform ("MRM") is a global technology platform that empowers premium video ad monetization. Through this self-service, enterprise SaaS platform, sellers can efficiently monetize their video inventory by utilizing multiple demand channels, including direct sold, programmatic, and marketplace deals. FreeWheel's TV Platform provides capabilities across a "pitch-to-pay" workflow that covers the steps enabling an advertising campaign across planning, optimization, delivery, and reporting. Access to these functionalities are available to client systems through a robust set of APIs as well as through user interface (UI) screens.

Our clients are primarily large media content publishers and distributors, such as, ViacomCBS, NBCU, WBD, A+E, etc. We support them to monetize their premium video space through different sales channels. In addition, our clients also leverage MRM to support their big live events, such as, Super Bowl, Olympic Games, March Madness, etc. We generate revenue through a mixture of platform subscription fees, variable ad serving fees, and revenue share structures.

What are some interesting problems the student will work on?

In your role, You will get familiar with how Freewheel bridges publishers and advertisers/3rd party DSPs and co-work with the team to figure out the tech solutions to meet sellers and buyers’ needs and improve the efficiency and ROI of the entire trading chain.

Where can this student make an impact?

You’ll be working with Freewheel global Eng team to reduce the trading friction when sellers and buyers are making deals on our platform. It’s essential for us to improve customer stickiness and enlarge the general liquidity on our platform.

Job Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• This role is expected to understand the problem by taking assigned basic trainings and doing self-pacing learning/research around the related code/documents (internal or external)

• This role is expected to explore more than 1 possible solutions, evaluate them and choose a final solution to pursue.

• This role is expected to design, implement, test the solution. If applicable, monitor and alert of the solution is also expected.

• This role is expected to join the engineer team's daily standup.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with C/C++ and network programming.

• Experience with Cloud, containerization and other related technologies.

• Strong passion of learning/practicing new technics.

• Preferred Majors: Computer Science related Majors

Minimum Qualifications and Eligibility Requirements

• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree from a United States-based college or university

• Rising Junior or Rising Senior only (must have a graduation date between Winter 2025- Spring 2027)

• Returning to degree-program (for at least a semester) after the completion of the summer internship (meaning, student must be returning to school for Fall 2025 semester before graduating)

• Available to work 40 hours per week over the course of the summer program- June 2 through August 15, 2025

• Authorized to work in the United States with no current or future sponsorship needs

• Available to report in-person to the work location on the job posting (unless virtual offering)

• Comcast is an Affirmative Action/EEO employer M/F/D/V

Comcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Salary:

Base Pay: $40.00

The application window is 30 days from the date job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later.

Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary (https://jobs.comcast.com/benefits) on our careers site for more details.

Relevant Work Experience

0-2 Years

Job Family Group: Functional Operations

Intern Rotational: Intern