Posted in Other 27 days ago.
03-Apr-2024
Harvard Law School
65509BR
Position Description
The Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress on social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in timebound collaboration, the Institute aims to improve the state of digital social spaces through multi-model output.
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), established within RSM, is hiring practitioners from industry to develop products, tools, and protocols for existing and new social media platforms. Teams of technologists will work in thematic ‘pods’, generating and driving new ideas, projects, and experiments around themes like Trust and Safety Tooling, Political Deliberation, Disinformation Mitigation and more. The lab’s output will range from white papers to fully-functional product prototypes.
A Principal Engineer will work with a small team of engineers to design, build, and test new kinds of social media technology. The technology may span the entire stack, from back-end storage to front-end user interfaces. In concert with a product manager and senior ASML staff, the Principal Engineer will ensure that the new technology satisfies traditional engineering goals like scalability and robustness while also meeting project-specific prosocial goals (e.g., giving users more control over their data, or strengthening a user's ability to defend against online harassment).
As a Principal Engineer, you will:
Basic Qualifications
Additional Qualifications and Skills
We are looking for people who have:
Additional Information
This is a term appointment currently expected to extend through 6/30/25, with potential for renewal subject to funding and departmental need.
We regret that Harvard Law School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.
All offers to be made by HLS Human Resources.
Work Format Details
This position may be performed in-person or remotely; the option for hybrid work is also available.
Employees may work from any of the Harvard Registered Payroll States, which currently includes Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington, and California (CA for exempt positions only). Certain visa types and funding sources may limit work location. Individuals must meet work location sponsorship requirements prior to employment.
About Us
Be a part of excellence and leadership in legal education and scholarship at Harvard Law School. We are a community of talented people from diverse backgrounds, lived experiences, and perspectives, dedicated to advancing the cause of justice all over the?world. We value our differences and our diversity as a source of strength. We are committed to developing and inspiring our students and our workforce. Whoever you are, whatever you do, however you do it,?Harvard Law School?is a place where you can thrive.
Benefits
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Job Function
Information Technology
Department Office Location
USA - MA - Cambridge
Job Code
I0759P Applications Professional V
Work Format
Remote
Sub-Unit
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059
Department
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Union
00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary
Time Status
Full-time
Appointment End Date
30-Jun-2025
Pre-Employment Screening
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EEO Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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