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We are looking for a Senior Programmer at the MIT Media Lab, for our project applying Reality Analysis for Psychological Health Monitoring.

Job Description

The Senior Programmer will work on a team that is developing and delivering trust-network security and privacy software for protecting and sharing sensitive health-related data being data mined from Android mobile phone services among subjects and researchers. The Senior Programmer must possesses a high degree of imagination, leadership and intellectual rigor, as well as a passion and a commitment to launch a platform that has the potential to transform the social and commercial web. The Senior Programmer must be well versed in the issues around data sharing and protection, security, social networking, and mobile platforms services and applications. The position requires combining exceptional development skills with design and usability sensibilities that have been vetted in the release of real products and services.

Desired Skills & Experience

A B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in computer science or related field. Expert Java developer in both web/mobile client and server side. Android app and HTML5 developer. Expertise in privacy and personal data including OAuth. MySQL (or possibly other SQL stores), non-SQL is also highly desirable. Skilled with both Linux and Linux server configurations. Must understand and use open source best practices and have prior entrepreneurial experiences. Helpful experience and interests: open source community and participation; personal data stores; personal health records; online identity management and authentication; biometrics; API development; Google App Inventor/ MIT Scratch; “Big data”, data mining and visualization; Reality Mining/Honest Signals (see Prof. Pentland’s work at MIT: http://hd.media.mit.edu).

How to Apply
This position is through April 30, 2013, and may be extended. Apply at http://jobs.mit.edu, MIT job # MIT-00008360.