The Dat project is an open source project housed in the US Open Data Institute and funded by the Sloan Foundation. The best introduction is probably this Wired article.
We are currently looking for a software developer and/or data scientist.
Our team is currently made up of myself in Oakland, CA, an additional software developer in Copenhagen and a Bioinformatics Researcher/Software dev in London. We work remotely and 100% open source, and these open positions are remote work friendly. If the candidates happen to be in the bay area or would like to visit here for hacking trips that would be a plus.
Our mission is to build tools to make sharing datasets easier. Right now we are especially focused on 3 pilot projects in partnership with scientific researchers, two from the bioinformatics world (one DNA and one RNA) and one from astronomy (deep space imagery).
The skills we are looking for:
- Enthusiasm about open source/open data
- Some experience in working with datasets, data science tools and databases
- At least some programming experience
- Must be okay with learning JavaScript (if they don't already know it)
- Wants to help scientists share datasets, build command line tools with JavaScript and occasionally speak at conferences or run workshops
We pay $8000/month (~$100,000 a year) for full time, $4000/month for part time and $2000/month for paid internships. All members of the team make one of these two income levels right now. Sadly we don't yet have a budget for any benefits, and are all paid as contractors.
Please email max at maxogden dot com by September 12th, 2014 if you are interested. Thanks for reading this!