EyeWire is hiring talented developers to help create a game to map the brain at MIT.
Are you a superb software developer with a passion for the brain? The EyeWire Team is mobilizing the world to help solve the ultimate question: How do the 80 billion neurons in your 3 pound brain create thoughts, feelings, and perceptions?
EyeWire is being developed by Sebastian Seung's Computational Neuroscience Lab (see his TEDTalk). We launched in December, 2012, and have since grown to over 125,000 players from 140 countries. We’ve seen press coverage ranging from WIRED to NPR; EyeWire has appeared on the front page of Reddit and is a favorite of Facebook’s IFLS. The best news is next: we’re hiring—and you need no neuroscience background to join the team.
What does it take to build a game to map the brain? Passion and ace hacker skills. Below is a description of our open front end developer positions available in Boston, NYC or Princeton, NJ.
Full Stack Web Developer
Technologies: HTML5, Javascript, CSS3, PHP, MySQL, WebGL, NodeJS, git
Make EyeWire more fun, and empower EyeWirers to make scientific discoveries using cutting edge web technologies. Conceptualize and develop features front to back. Examples of what you might be doing at first include developing infrastructure for competitions, building an external API, enhancing player profiles, enhancing our chat, manipulating 3D graphics, and compiling player reports from the database. Help EyeWire scale to process neural tracings at high throughput. Game development experience is a plus.
Please note: we are unable to sponsor visas for international candidates without a PhD.
We are also hiring back end developers and a sys admin.