Graduate Student Employment Opportunity

Deadline: Sunday, October 2, 2016

Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) seeks to hire a graduate student who can assist setting up a cross-country online experiment aimed at better understanding the legitimacy of material incentives in labor relations. The experiment is an online game to be played with subjects from the US, India, and South Africa. The successful candidate will work with UbiquityLab, a novel platform to conduct large-scale online experiments with real-time interactions among participants.

We are looking for an experienced Javascript and Python programmer who can write simple code to deliver an intuitive, engaging front-end user interface for the game. You will be working in collaboration with economists and experimentalists from Stanford, Cambridge, and Oxford universities. In this role, you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on the research and to increase your knowledge of the design and implementation of internet gaming across countries.

The candidate must be able to commit 20 hours/week to the project from start to finish (approximately 6 months). We pay $25.00/hour. To apply please email your cover letter and CV to Alice Kada at akada@stanford.edu, or via Handshake https://stanford.joinhandshake.com/jobs/437422. 

Qualifications:

•    Significant experience using Javascript and Python

•    Graduate student in CS or related field

•    Excellent CSS / HTML / Javascript skills

•    Experience working with Python or similar

•    Familiarity with interactive web design principles

•    Ability to work in a team environment involving people from different countries and cultural backgrounds

•    Extreme attention to detail and the user experience

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Familiarity with AJAX and Netsockets

•    Experience building interactive websites

•    Experience developing gaming environments

•    A demonstrated commitment to complete projects

Responsibilities:

•    Design, develop and deploy web applications in JavaScript

•    Hand code HTML and CSS and work collaboratively with researchers, academics, and other developers to bring our experiment to life

•    Participate in system design, architecture decisions and code reviews

•     Work in a highly interactive, team-oriented environment