Job Opp: Junior Software Engineer at Harvard

["Stephen Schultze" <user=1626@nabble.blu.org>]

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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
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Stephen Schultze 
Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society 
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