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Job Opportunities
OpenDP Support Engineer
OpenDP is an open-source initiative for building libraries, tools, and systems to share and analyze sensitive data with the strong mathematical protections of differential privacy. It has a rapidly growing community that spans academia, industry, and government.
As a support engineer, your role will be to guide external developers and users in the creation and deployment of private data analyses and other applications of the OpenDP software tools. The goal is to accelerate the adoption of OpenDP technologies by partnering with target organizations to understand their needs, develop technical solutions, and provide feedback to OpenDP developers for improvement of our offerings.
This is a one-year term appointment with the possibility of extension.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES"
- Engage and collaborate with a wide range of community developers and users through requests (e.g. email, ticketing systems, chats) and in-person consultations during office hours.
- Help to facilitate the design and testing of application workflows alongside developers and users.
- Connect and coordinate interactions with technology providers.
- Provide regular communications to systems and software/data professionals.
- Develop and present educational material for basic use of OpenDP software tools.
- Abide by and follow the Harvard University IT technical standards, policies, and Code of Conduct.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS"
- Minimum of five years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS"
- Knowledge of the Python language and script development required.
- Understanding of basic data processing and ability to create analytic notebooks required.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and empathy, valuing diversity and working with communities.
- Exposure to and interest in learning more about differential privacy.
- Experience and interest in working with open-source projects and communities.
- Experience with other programming languages, for example R and C.
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Research Scientist
The OpenDP project seeks to hire a Research Scientist to work with faculty directors Gary King and Salil Vadhan and the OpenDP Community to formulate and advance the scientific goals of OpenDP and solve research problems that are needed for its success. A community effort to build trustworthy, open-source software tools for statistical analysis of sensitive private data, OpenDP will offer the rigorous protections of differential privacy for individuals who may be represented in confidential data and statistically valid methods of analysis for researchers who study the data.
Key responsibilities will include advising the OpenDP team, our collaborators and community members on applying differential privacy in building software tools for data science problems, writing grant applications for fundraising and outreach, and serving as the scientific point of contact and fulcrum with use case partners and DP subject matter experts.
The successful candidate will be free to spend up to 50% of their time on their own independent research projects in related domains, perhaps in collaboration with other members of the team. Initial salary will be provided with the offer, with the expectation that the candidate will work with the OpenDP team to raise funding for future support.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS"
Candidates are required to have a PhD and at least five years of postdoctoral experience. We strongly encourage applications from historically underrepresented groups.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS"
Candidates should have familiarity with differential privacy and one or both of the following:
- Experience with implementing software for data science, privacy, and/or security, and an interest in working with software engineers to develop the OpenDP codebase.
- Experience with applied statistics, and an interest in working with domain scientists to apply OpenDP software to data-sharing problems in their field.
Required application materials include a cover letter; an updated curriculum vitae; a two-to-four page research statement discussing both past accomplishments and current and future areas of interest; links to at most three research papers or software products. Please submit the names and contact information for three references.
To apply, start here: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11093
Interns and Postdoc Positions
To apply for an intern or post doctoral postion on the OpenDP team, please following the process listed here:
Apply for Intern & Postdocs on Privacy Tools