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The NetLogo team at Northwestern University (near Chicago) is hiring a full-time developer. This might interest you if you want to: - work with researchers at a university - make things for kids, teachers, and scientists - write Scala and CoffeeScript - hack on compilers and interpreters - do functional programming - use the Play framework - write open source software - do your work on GitHub (https://github.com/NetLogo) The CCL is looking for a full-time developer to work on NetLogo. The Software Developer position is based at Northwestern University’s Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (CCL). You'd be working in a small collaborative development team in a university research group that also includes professors, postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates, supporting the needs of multiple research projects. A major focus would be on development of NetLogo, an open-source modeling environment for both education and scientific research. Our grants also involve development work on HubNet and other associated tools for NetLogo, including research and educational NSF grants involving building NetLogo-based science curricula for schools. NetLogo is a programming language and agent-based modeling environment. The NetLogo language is a dialect of Logo/Lisp specialized for building agent-based simulations of natural and social phenomena. NetLogo has many thousands of users ranging from grade school students to advanced researchers. A collaborative extension of NetLogo, called HubNet, enables groups of participants to run participatory simulation activities in classrooms and distributed participatory simulations in social science research. Specific Responsibilities: Collaborates with the NetLogo development team in designing features for NetLogo, HubNet and web-based versions of these applications; Writes code independently, and in the context of a team of experienced software engineers and principal investigator; Creates, updates and documents existing models using NetLogo, HubNet and web-based applications; Creates new such models; Supports development of new devices to interact with HubNet; Interacts with commercial and academic partners to help determine design and functional requirements for NetLogo and HubNet; Interacts with user community including responding to bug reports, questions, and suggestions, and interacting with open-source contributors; Performs data collection, organization, and summarization for projects; Assists with coordination of team activities; Performs related duties as required or assigned. Minimum Qualifications for either job: A bachelor's degree in computer science or a closely related field or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills and abilities may be acquired; Enthusiasm for writing clean, modular, well-tested code. Desirable Qualifications: Experience with working effectively as part of a small software development team, including close collaboration, distributed version control, and automated testing; Experience with at least one JVM language such as Java; Experience with Scala programming, or enthusiasm for learning it;Experience with building web-based applications, both server-side and client-side components, particularly with html5 and JavaScript and/or CoffeeScript ; Experience designing and working with GUIs, including the Swing toolkit; Experience with Haskell, Lisp, or other functional languages; Interest in and experience with programming language implementation, functional programming, and metaprogramming; Experience with GUI design; language design and compilers; Interest in and experience with computer-based modeling and simulation, especially agent-based simulation; Interest in and experience with distributed, multiplayer, networked systems like HubNet; Experience working on research projects in an academic environment; Experience with open-source software development and supporting the growth of an open-source community; experience with unix system administration; Interest in education and an understanding of secondary school math and science content. Application information: The Northwestern campus is in Evanston, Illinois on the Lake Michigan shore, adjacent to Chicago and easily reachable by public transportation. To apply, please contact Uri Wilensky, Director of the CCL, at the following email address: ccl-developer-job@ccl.northwestern.edu Please put “Developer Job” in the subject line. Please include a PDF version of your resume and links to any relevant development projects you feel illustrate your abilities.