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For the full job posting policy, see: <http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?JobPostingPolicy> --- Job Opportunity: Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society Title: Junior Software Engineer Full-Time, on-site (some telecommuting may be possible) Salary Grade: 055 (http://employment.harvard.edu/benefits/compensation/) The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School seeks a Junior Software Engineer to assist with its research into media. The Media Cloud project is building a system to collect and categorize content from a wide variety of traditional and new media sources online to support a range of research projects about the collected content. (See below for more project details.) We need a smart, self-motivated software engineer who will thrive in a dynamic, creative and fast-paced organization filled with a wide variety of extremely bright people who are passionate about Internet & society issues. Works with a distributed and often virtual team of researchers, including faculty, fellows, students, and other engineers. As with all appointments at the Berkman Center, this position is through until June 30, 2009, with the possibility of continuation depending on funding and business need. Basic qualifications: BSCS or equivalent experience with hands-on software engineering experience required. Additional qualifications: demonstrated ability to solve engineering problems and to plan, write, test, and deliver modules of code with little direct supervision. Must have the ability to research and learn new technologies quickly and often. Knowledge of the following areas is helpful: perl, regular expressions, rss/atom, sql, web crawling and scraping, browser automation, and mvc web development (catalyst, dbix::class, and html::formfu are most helpful). Candidates with a background and interest in new media specifically and Internet & society issues in general are preferred. Cover letters should include a description of a single (solved) engineering problem that best demonstrates each of these aspects of development (plan, write, test, deliver). The content will be collected by an rss crawler backed by a large database of feeds and media sources, a parser to convert the first page of html of each story into the full text content of each story, and a terming engine to generate a list of relevant terms for each parsed story. The database of these stories and terms will be used as the basis for a number of research projects into new media, including analysis of global attention profiles, selective news amplification, and media meme propagation, many of which will require additional work extracting and analyzing the necessary data from the database. The junior engineer will be responsible for the great bulk of the development of all of these pieces under the guidance of a project leader and with the advice of a lead architect. About the Organization: The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School is committed to producing scholarship with impact, and is proud to be celebrating its tenth year as a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997, the Center now is home to an ever- growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that span the intersections among innovation, democracy, learning, law, technology, and policy. The environment at Berkman offers both an opportunity to learn new technologies and a unique window into the world of technology and policy. If interested, apply here: http://jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=38050 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
