The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP) is seeking a Full-stack Software Engineer to join the Engineering team to support cutting edge research in a societally critical field.
The CIP’s mission is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. The core of almost all the CIP’s work is social media data, which the Engineering team owns. The Engineering team is instrumental to the success of the CIP’s mission, supporting efforts across research, education, and community impact.
The CIP is a collaborative research center, located within the Information School, that brings together faculty, researchers, staff, students, and community partners in service of the mission. The Engineering team provides computational and methodological infrastructure and support to diverse researchers working within the CIP.
The Full-stack Software Engineer will be a force multiplier for the CIP’s mission, increasing the pace of inquiry, expanding the kinds of research that can be done, and increasing capacity to serve a growing number of researchers. This is not a direct research position. The primary responsibilities will be supporting others’ research projects and agendas. However, the Full-stack Software Engineer may have the opportunity to contribute to published research in ways that warrant authorship.
The Engineering team is composed of three positions. In a small team environment, each team member makes a critical and massive impact. The team has very low overhead (meetings), so team members spend the vast majority of their work time designing, building, maintaining, and working one-on-one or in small groups with researchers.
Although open until filled, preferred applicant deadline is February 18, 2024. Review of applicants will begin on February 22, 2024.
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