[lookit-research] Job Opportunity: New Software Engineer position at Lookit

[Melissa Kline]

Dear all - I am happy to announce that the Lookit team is growing - we are
hiring for a second full-time software developer position!

The details of the position and application are here
<https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=22191&localeCode=en-us>
and copied below.

If you know of (or if you are) a software engineer who would enjoy working
with academic researchers on a growing experiment platform, please pass
this ad along!

I would appreciate any help at all distributing this ad to as many
potential candidates as possible, so please don't hesitate to retweet
<https://twitter.com/melissaekline/status/1456286700905410564> the
announcement if you're a Twitter user, or send it to any listservs or
groups at your institutions who would be interested.

Thanks so much,

- Melissa

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Melissa Kline Struhl
Lookit Executive Director
Research Scientist, MIT Brain & Cognitive Sciences
mekline at mit.edu
https://lookit.mit.edu/ <http://lookit.mit.edu/>
http://www.melissaklinestruhl.com/ <http://www.melissakline.net/>

SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Brain and Cognitive Sciences-MIT Early Childhood
Cognition Lab, to join the development team of the open-source online
platform Lookit <https://lookit.mit.edu/>. Lookit is an experiment platform
that allows researchers to design webcam-based research studies, which
families can participate from their home computers at their convenience,
rather than coming to a lab.

This position will hold primary responsibility for the experiment runner
(implemented in Ember.js), a library of experimental components that
researchers use to specify study protocols. User engagement and UX/UI
design are critical components of this role; Lookit users include both
researchers debugging study specifications and parents with squirming
babies on their laps. The position also offers opportunities to mentor
undergraduate student contributors.

Lookit is used by universities around the world to collect larger and more
representative samples and to address questions that are impractical for a
lab environment. The project is open-source; code, documentation, and
planned features are available via https://github.com/lookit/. Frontend,
backend, and even deployment infrastructure are managed entirely within the
Lookit code base.

Responsibilities include:

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   Strategic feature prioritization and planning, working with
   collaborators across multiple labs
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   Developing scalable tools to support research workflows and improve the
   participant experience
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   Managing usability & accessibility of Lookit interface for both families
   and researchers
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   Managing contractors for a periodic security risk assessment
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   Evaluating and building architecture to support the use of common open
   source experiment libraries within Lookit infrastructure


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   Writing documentation, incorporating unit tests, and conducting code
   reviews for other codebase contributors
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   Ensuring the security of personally-identifiable data


We are seeking someone who enjoys learning new technologies and working
with researchers with a wide range of technical backgrounds, who is
comfortable planning their time strategically, and who takes pride in
writing clean, maintainable, and testable code that others can understand.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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   One year of professional programming experience with full stack web
   development
   -

   Experience with some of the following: Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript,
   Ember, and Python


PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

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   3-4 years professional experience programming
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   Basic DevOps experience with deployment and continuous integration tools
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   Use of containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes)
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   Direct experience managing cloud-based resources with Google Cloud
   Platform
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   Interest in child development or human subjects research; comfortable
   learning and applying knowledge of study designs to support their
   implementation
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   Experience with academic study software (e.g. tools like Gorilla,
   Prolific, jsPsych, PsychoPy)
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   Experience maintaining an open-source project
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