Looking for a good science educator!
Backyard Brains is hiring! We are a start-up with the goal of offering low cost neurotechnology for all. We recently received a NIH SBIR grant to expand and improve our educational products. You can browse our online lesson plans, but as you can see... these are difficult for use by an autonomous teacher or a novice unfamiliar with neuroscience. We are looking for a part-time someone (5-20 hours a week) who can help us:
- Convert our current materials into a format teachers are comfortable with (and that they like!). Whenever possible, these lessons should cross-link into state and national standards.
- Help us design and implement educational research investigating if our materials improve learning and retention of neuroscience concepts, with the eventual goal of publishing the results in neuroscience/educational journals.
- Continually design new experiments that students and teachers will enjoy and learn from.
You would be one of our first employees! Greg and Tim started this company two years ago based on their love of building things, studying the brain, and educational outreach. We are not a standard company, consider us a bad company that sells things too cheaply and works too hard.
Perks of working with ByB: You'd be hip. We are changing the world and doing something truly new. You can work out of your home and be entirely self-directed with minimal day-to-day oversight by us, though we will be meeting weekly. 1-4 times a month you will also help us in high school visits. Sometimes you will be on TV and in magazines depending on the quality of your work. This job has funding for two years, and depending on the work we all do, perhaps more. Oh, and yes, we do offer health care!
Cons: Since we have no central office, you will be working from home or your own workspace. Tim and Greg are not professional K12 educators, so you will also be teaching us along the way on best practices.
If interested, send us an email with a sample lesson plan you have made and a little anecdote about yourself to info@backyardbrains.com. UPDATE: This position has been temporarily filled but will be available again in August.
Looking for a good code monkey!
This position has been filled!
Backyard Brains is hiring! We are a start-up with the goal of offering low cost neurotechnology for all. We recently received a NIH SBIR grant to expand and improve our educational products. A large user need and request has been for more features on our iPhone application that interfaces with our inventions. We need someone full-time who can:
- Continually innovate, develop, and maintain our iPhone Software
- Develop software compatible with Android
- Build a browser-based software package that can allow for platform independent recording of neural data on any laptop OS.
- Infuse all products with humor, and design all products such that they can be used as teaching tools (i.e. your code should be organized such that it can be used to teach good coding).
You would be our first employee! Greg and Tim started this company two years ago based on their love of building things, studying the brain, and educational outreach. We are not a standard company, consider us a bad company that sells things too cheaply and works too hard.
Perks of working with ByB: You'd be hip. We are changing the world and doing something truly new. You can work out of your home and be entirely self-directed with minimal day-to-day oversight by us, though we will have once/week design review meetings. Occasionally (1-4 times/month) you will help us in high school visits! Sometimes you will be on TV and in magazines depending on the quality of your work. This job has funding for two years, and depending on the work we all do, perhaps more. Oh, and yes. We do offer health care.
Cons: Since we have no central office, you absolutely must have the inner strength/zen/discipline to work productively from home or your own mobile space. You will generally be expected to be on the grid at all times during the work week, and weekends too depending on deadlines. But, most 21st century people are anyway, so this is not an extreme requirement.
If interested, send us an email with your coding experience, and applications you have written, and an anecdote about yourself to info@backyardbrains.com. This position is available immediately.