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The Center for Open Science (COS) is looking for an experienced senior software engineer to advance our mission of increasing the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research.  We’re looking for someone to help us build user-facing SPAs that provide a great user experience through performance and reliability. The perfect candidate for this role has worked in the commercial software space for a while but would now like to use their engineering skill to positively impact the world. We are more interested in your communication skills, passion, and ability than we are in the specific technologies that you use. A great developer will be a great developer in any language.

Founded in 2013, COS is a non-profit organization that has pushed for meaningful change in the scientific community. We've initiated large-scale reproducibility studies, challenged the incentive models of science publication, and built the OSF (the premier online framework for ensuring that science is open and available).  All of our software is free and open source, and we want to apply the same transparent and open principles to science.

• Front-End: Ember.js and TypeScript
• Back-End: Python, Django, Tornado, and Flask
• Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ
• Authentication: CAS (Java)
• Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Travis

• LEADERSHIP: Help lead and mentor a small team of developers building the front end of a Postgres-backed web application. Provide code review, mentorship, and guidance for junior- and mid- level developers
• ARCHITECTURE and DEVELOPMENT: Make evidence- and experience- backed architecture decisions for new and existing products.  Write clean, maintainable, and well-designed code. Troubleshoot and improve legacy systems
• COORDINATION: Help triage and prioritize projects and products to meet business needs. Plan releases and organize migrations in concert with devops

• Ability to make and drive technical decisions to completion
• Great communication, including thoughtful listening skills, the ability to express complex ideas clearly and succinctly, and the ability to communicate well in writing
• Demonstrate expert-level understanding of Javascript and ideally TypeScript
• Experience in at least one front-end web application framework (e.g. Ember.js, Vue.js, Angular, React)
• Demonstrated experience in front-end testing best practices
• Expert in software design principles
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience mentoring other engineers
• Ability to work independently, and passionate about software engineering concepts
• Experience collaborating with teams across and outside the organization
• Track record leading teams to timely and effective project completion

COS offers full time employees:

• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition
• Modern office space and other amenities
• COS promotes a flexible work environment that supports a healthy work/life balance

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

Please submit a resume and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position here. Questions about the position and COS are welcome and can be directed to jobs@cos.io. You can also see more on GitHub.

The Center for Open Science (COS) is a mission-driven non-profit technology company providing free and open services to increase inclusivity and transparency of research. All members of the COS team work towards achieving our mission through the successful completion of their functions and duties.

COS Values & Expectations: COS aims to live up to the values it advocates, which are: openness, transparency, integrity, strong communication, collaboration, dedication to mission and team, respect, inclusiveness, innovation, hard work, and a love-what-you-do mindset. 

COS is seeking a Data Manager to be the operational lead for its role in a recently funded John Templeton Foundation project.  This project will collect survey data on the social, spiritual, and religious attitudes from approximately 300,000 research participants around the world over a period of five years. Some background on the proposed research is available here.

The Data Manager will be responsible for the curation, ethical sharing, and preservation of the data, which will be collected by partner organizations. The Data Manager will be responsible for assisting external researchers on data reuse and requests for data access after external researchers meet criteria for ethical (e.g. IRB certification) and rigorous/transparent (e.g. preregistered designs) standards.  

The Data Manager will be the point-of-contact with the lead teams for the project at Baylor, Harvard, and Gallup and will report to the Program Manager on the Policy team at the Center for Open Science. 

The Data Manager will:

• Receive the datasets and codebooks.
• Prepare them for public release.
• Manage and document the OSF project spaces hosting the data.
• Implement the release schedule.
• Provide daily support to researchers using the datasets.
• Provide support for preregistration and Registered Report submissions associated with the project.
• Manage communications in conjunction with the communications coordinator.
• Conduct workshops and webinars for researchers on open and reproducible best practices, use of OSF, and workflows for this project such as the registry and reporting workflow
• Maintain proper documentation for external community members

Additional data management skills that may be applied:

• Maintaining and documenting that database for quality and wide use
• Enhancing the dataset with related data from a wide variety of scholarly databases using and developing automated techniques to keep the dataset up-to-date
• Enhancing the dataset with data extracted from papers and/or provided by other collaborators or performing teams-- Creating automated workflows for data extraction from sources
• Negotiating and collaborating with maintainers of other scholarly databases to align data for automated extraction and merging
• Maintaining overall data integrity for project success
• Maintaining permissions for data access

• Expertise with data managing, data wrangling, data merging, and data documentation
• Expertise with scholarly databases. Experience with data access via APIs is desired. 
• Experience with programming skills for data extraction, merging, and creating automated, repeatable workflows with large databases (SQL experience is a plus)
• Practical understanding of and experience with machine learning a plus
• Demonstrated commitment to transparency, rigor, and reproducibility in research
• Functional knowledge or experience with preregistration or Registered Reports.
• Attention to detail and very strong documentation and workflow management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, interpersonal skills, and ability to work independently and in coordination with a team for advancing shared objectives on a very assertive timeline
• Ability to prioritize, make decisions, problem-solve, and ask for help

This position may require up to 10% of travel (up to 20% if located remote from Charlottesville). 

• 3-5 years of experience handling research data intended for reuse or curation
• A demonstrated record of open science practices, such as data sharing, preregistration, collaborative research endeavors requiring documentation or curation.

• Education or related experience equivalent to Master’s level in data science, statistics, or a closely related field. 

Salary range $60,000 - $65,000 commensurate with experience. The position is located at the Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia. On site is desired but remote work will be considered.

COS offers full time employees:

• Competitive salaries
• 401(k) with employer match. COS offers a matching contribution of 100% up to 3% of pay and another 50% up to 5% of pay (the full match will be 4% if participants elect to defer 5%)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance. COS covers 100% of employee premium and 50% of all dependent coverage costs under the base plan
• 15 days vacation in year one
• Paid family medical leave. COS offers paid leave for up to three (3) months to all full-time, regular employees to care for their child after birth, after or during the adoption process, or to care for their spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition.
• Modern office space and other amenities including free parking.

COS is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages applications from members of groups underrepresented in science and technology industries.

Please submit a resume/CV and cover letter explaining your background and interest in the position here. Questions about the position and COS are welcome, and can be directed to jobs@cos.io.