Rice University’s OpenStax Tutor initiative is searching for a well-qualified frontend developer to join a team of engineers, researchers, and visionaries working to advance the frontiers of online personalized learning. Tutor (openstaxtutor.org) brings together online learning platforms, repositories of open educational resources, techniques from cognitive science, and advanced machine learning algorithms to provide a world-leading educational experience for educators and learners.
The Frontend Developer will work with the product manager, contractors, and team developers to implement the interactive, web-based components of OpenStax's suite of online learning and assessment software used for research and product development. The developer will design software components and develop for a web-based learning service and return the recommendations and analytics produced by cog sci and machine learning algorithms to client learning platforms, as well as associated components such as editing tools, assessment and interaction data databases, etc.
Full time contract is for 6 months with a possible extension. We are open to having someone remote for this position, with the stipulation that the applicant be available for our scrum and other meetings during central time business hours.