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ABSTRACT
The Knowledge Futures Group, in association with Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press, eLife/sciety, and EMBO, is hiring a full-time Software Engineer on a 12-month appointment with an opportunity to drive the adoption of Docmaps, a community-endorsed framework for representing research object-level review/editorial processes in a machine-readable, interoperable, and extensible format. We’re looking for someone with daily programming experience, preferably working on developer tools, an understanding of semantic web principles, and interest in the academic publishing industry. We will pay you competitively, let you work a 4-day workweek from wherever you want, and take you and your ideas seriously. Join us!
Location | Remote |
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Position Type | Full-time (4-day workweek, ~32 hours/week) |
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Duration | 12 months, with potential to extend |
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Compensation | $125,000 - $150,000/year, plus benefits |
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About the Knowledge Futures Group
Knowledge Futures Group, founded as a partnership between the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, is a non-profit institution that builds infrastructure for a more effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge economy.
About the Doc Maps Program
The program is a multi-phase effort to create, adopt and implement Docmaps, a common framework for representing object-level editorial processes in a way that is interoperable, extensible, and machine-readable. So far, we have convened a technical committee to de-risk and evaluate Docmaps and developed a pilot that uses Docmaps to display reviews from eLife’s Sciety platform on CSHL’s biorxiv and medrixv preprint servers. In the next phase, we will be further developing the Docmaps software development kit and documentation and driving adoption by spreading the word about Docmaps at community events and reaching out to and assisting partners in integrating Docmaps into their technology and workflows.
About The Role
Lead development of the Docmaps SDK, including validation and visualization tools, examples, and technical documentation.
Work with partner developers to spec and where needed, help build and test Docmaps integrations with other systems, including preprint servers and academic content aggregators.
Consult with the Docmaps Project Lead and partner developers to advise on partnerships and integrations with other emerging standards like JATS4R, PrEF, NISO Peer Review Terminology, Project Notify, etc.
Participate in workshops and other opportunities to demonstrate or answer technical questions about Docmaps.
With the Docmaps Project Lead, prioritize, respond to, and fulfill technical requests from the Docmaps community.
About You
You’re an experienced Web developer with an interest in advancing the original use-case for the Web: bringing research communities together.
You’re familiar with semantic web and decentralized web technologies, or excited to learn about them.
You have experience developing toolkits and documentation for an audience of fellow developers.
You have experience implementing experimental technologies in production environments.
You want to work on a team that respects your ideas about the design, user experience, and ethics of software, not just the code you produce.
You want to build tools that empower people without preying on them.
You’re ready to work on a small product team that will expect you to make and own significant decisions about software architecture, and engage with questions about product and design.
You want breathing room to experiment, be thoughtful, and get things right, but without losing sight of an active user base and an ambitious roadmap.
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Eligibility
This role is open to applicants as either a one-year full-time, benefitted W-2 position within the U.S., or as a full-time contract role for applicants outside the U.S. You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S., or to be paid as a foreign contractor by a U.S. company, to apply for this role.
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