[CogSci] Software Engineer (fulltime) - new position at Lookit (MIT Brain & Cog)

[Melissa Kline]

Dear all -

I'm pleased to announce that Lookit <https://lookit.mit.edu/>, an
experiment platform hosted by MIT's Early Childhood Cognition Lab, is
hiring for a full-time software engineer position.

 Link to application
<https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=22191&localeCode=en-us>;
details below

Thank you, and my apologies for anyone who may see this message more than
once!
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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. 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:

Strategic feature prioritization and planning, working with collaborators
across multiple labs

Developing scalable tools to support research workflows and improve the
participant experience

Managing usability & accessibility of Lookit interface for both families
and researchers

Managing contractors for a periodic security risk assessment

Evaluating and building architecture to support the use of common open
source experiment libraries within Lookit infrastructure

Writing documentation, incorporating unit tests, and conducting code
reviews for other codebase contributors

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:

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:

3-4 years professional experience programming

Basic DevOps experience with deployment and continuous integration tools

Use of containerization technologies (Docker/Kubernetes)

Direct experience managing cloud-based resources with Google Cloud Platform

Interest in child development or human subjects research; comfortable
learning and applying knowledge of study designs to support their
implementation

Experience with academic study software (e.g. tools like Gorilla, Prolific,
jsPsych, PsychoPy)

Experience maintaining an open-source project
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