Job Summary

We are inviting applications for an Associate Director to join the Institute for Student-AI Teaming! Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an inaugural National AI Institute, iSAT brings together a geographically distributed team of researchers from nine Universities with partners from academia, K-12 school districts, and industry to address the central challenge of how to demonstrate advances in AI to promote deep conceptual learning via rich socio-collaborative learning experiences for all students. 

This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about advancing science and technology for social good and in building and cultivating important and impactful structures for positive change. This position provides exciting opportunities to give, interact, and grow with an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists, technologists, and educators. The key job responsibilities include managing the day-to-day operations of the institute, maintaining a collaborative multidisciplinary & multi-organizational team culture, supervising communications & outreach, and coordinating project planning, reporting, and evaluation. The Associate Director will lead a small staff and will work closely with the Principal Investigator (i.e., Director), Executive Director, and the Institute’s leadership team. 

The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Who We Are

The Institute of Cognitive Science cultivates rich scientific interchange across researchers from a broad range of subject areas including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Education. The mission of ICS is to understand and improve human cognition, learning, and development through the creation of interdisciplinary partnerships! 

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

Institute Management

• Supervise a Communications Specialist, Education and Outreach Coordinators, and Professional Assistants to ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day operations.
• Liaise with the Cognitive Science Large Project Business Manager (grant manager) to coordinate fiscal activity including project budgeting, purchasing, travel, and fiscal compliance.
• Ensure project operations follow university policy and regulatory requirements in areas such as IRB, Conflict of Interest, finances, etc.
• Be responsible for existing Institute programs and help establish new ones. 

Multidisciplinary/Multi-organizational Teambuilding

• Maintain a culture of inclusion for all scientific, educational, and administrative partners across multiple organizations and time zones.
• Work closely with the PI and the Institute’s leadership team to establish whole-team meeting agendas, lead meetings, and ensure that decisions and action items are documented and communicated. 
• Coordinate team building events including training, mentoring, and events.

Communications & Outreach

• Collaborate closely with the Communications Specialist and other project personnel/leadership to plan and implement project communications and track knowledge transfer activities such as publications, talks, and community engagements. 
• Work closely with the Executive Director to assist with nexus-building events, including organizing workshops, hosting guest speakers, and other engagements. 
• Coordinate with the Education & Outreach Coordinators to help build and maintain relationships with school districts, educators, community partners, and other community team members.

Planning, Reporting, & Evaluation

• Work with key personnel to track and document the extent to which the Institute is maintaining its strategic impacts.
• Coordinate drafting of strategic plans, interim and annual reports with the PI and Institute Leadership, working closely to integrate contributions from distributed members.
• Prepare for and assist with programmatic aspects of annual reviews by the Institute’s External Advisory Board and the NSF’s Site Visit Team.

What You Should Know

• This position offers a hybrid work modality with both on-site and remote work hours.

What We Can Offer

• The hiring range for this position is $83,000 - $105,000 annually. Relocation is available for eligible candidates.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

What We Require

• Bachelor’s degree in an education, technical, scientific, business, or leadership field and at least three years of experience with sponsored project administration, academic research administration, or related experience.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute.

What You Will Need

• Proven ability to optimally manage complex projects involving coordination across organizations.
• High-level management, administration, and organizational skills.
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills with a high degree of professionalism.
• Ability to organize and coordinate cross-functional teams across multiple time zones.
• Customer-service approach for managing internal and external collaborators.
• Ability to work within a complex, dynamic, matrixed structure.
• Proficiency and familiarity with working in collaborative workspaces, namely Google Drive and related applications (e.g., Asana).

What We Would Like You To Have

• Graduate degree in education, technical, scientific, business, or leadership field.
• Five years of experience with sponsored project administration, academic research administration, or related experience.
• Experience at the director/managerial level.
• Experience working in a research organization.
• Experience working in school settings or collaborating with educators.

Special Requirements

To apply, please submit the following materials: 

1. A current resume.
2. A cover letter that specifically tells us how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

We may request references at a later time. 

Please apply by August 23, 2023 for consideration.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.

Web UI Developer (Part time, 15-20 hours per week)

Job Summary

We are inviting applications for a part-time Web UI Developer to support a National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute. Funded by the National Science Foundation, The Institute for Student-AI Teaming (http://isat.ai) brings together a geographically distributed team of researchers from nine Universities with partners from academia, K-12 school districts, and industry to address the central challenge of how to promote deep conceptual learning via rich socio-collaborative learning experiences for all students. This part time position will work closely with the Institute’s technical team and researchers to develop and test web-based user interfaces that will be used by researchers and middle school students and teachers to support state-of-the-art natural language processing and multimodal machine learning research. This position provides exciting opportunities to interact with an interdisciplinary team of leading scientists and educators, and instill efficient and collaborative mechanisms for team-based science that has national impact. Areas of focus include Web UI development, working with REST APIs and microservices, and deployment to AWS cloud.

Who We Are

The Institute for Student-AI Teaming founded by National Science Foundation (NSF), will develop, deploy, and study AI Partners that interact naturally with students and teachers through speech, gesture, gaze, and facial expression in real-world classrooms and remote learning settings. The AI partners will be designed in close collaboration with educators with the aim of supporting students to develop STEM competencies, disciplinary practices, and 21st century skills. The long-term impact on the Institute is to help realize the grand challenge of “Education for All.” The Institute will accomplish this goal by leading the nation towards a future where all students—especially those whose identities are underrepresented in STEM—routinely participate in rich and rewarding AI-enabled collaborative learning experiences that scale, resulting in deeper student engagement and persistence in STEM, more inclusive classroom cultures, and significant improvements in learning outcomes. 

The Institute for Student-AI Teaming is hosted and supported by the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at CU-Boulder. Founded in 1968, the mission of ICS is to understand and enhance human cognition, learning, and development through the creation of interdisciplinary partnerships. ICS fosters rich scientific interchange across researchers from a broad range of disciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Education. ICS also specializes in incubating cutting edge, state-of-the-art R&D centers.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

• Develop and deploy Web UI Applications for use in middle school classrooms and laboratory settings
• Work with UI designers and team members to to implement prototype UIs and designs
• Deploy web application to AWS cloud

What We Require

• Front-end: 
  • Proficiency with one or more client-side frameworks including React, Angular, or similar framework to develop modern web applications. 
  • Proficient with JavaScript and/or TypeScript, SPAs, CSS, HTML 5, Web development CLIs, and related skills and concepts.
  • Proficient using REST APIs and other microservices to pull in, display, and save data to and from back-end servers and the UI.
  • Experience building UIs based on Figma designs
• Dev/Ops: 
  • Familiarity with deploying Web applications to AWS cloud infrastructure including CloudFront, S3, Elastic Container Service, EC2, Amplify, and/or DynamoDB.
• Working toward or completed undergraduate or graduate level degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Information Science or similar field and 2+ years of relevant experience

Desired but not required:

• Experience with full-stack development including back-end API development and deployment. MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, Mongoose, or similar. 

What You Will Need

• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and high degree of professionalism. 
• Customer-service oriented approach for managing internal stakeholders
• Demonstrated organizational skills
• Strong experience using appropriate software development tools
• Demonstrated technical writing skills for documenting code and test procedures

What We Would Like You To Have

• 2+ years of relevant experience 

What We Can Offer

This position would be a part time position with the expectation that the person would work 15-20 hours per week with a salary of $20 to $25/hour, depending on experience.

Special Application Instructions for Applicants

To apply, please submit the following materials:

1.   Resume/CV

2.   Cover Letter

Review of applications will begin on October 26th, 2022, and continue until the position is filled.

Please send applications to: Peter Foltz peter.foltz@colorado.edu

Job Summary 

We are inviting applications to fill multiple part-time positions for full stack and Web UI developers to support exciting new projects at the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS). The projects bring together geographically distributed teams of researchers and industry partners to support middle school students, teachers, and tutors through the use of AI-based, AWS-hosted software applications. These part time positions are part of technical teams working with researchers to develop and test educational technologies that use state-of-the-art natural language processing and multimodal machine learning research. The positions provide exciting opportunities to interact with interdisciplinary teams of leading scientists and educators to apply leading edge AI techniques to advance educational practices. Areas of focus include the development of Web UI’s and full stack applications for interacting with students, teachers, and math tutors and their coaches. 

Who We Are 

The work will be done within a world-class research environment with exceptional collaborative research teams encompassing researchers in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, and Education as well as external development partners. We are housed in the Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS; https://www.colorado.edu/ics/), whose mission is to enhance human cognition, learning, and development through the creation of interdisciplinary partnerships. ICS fosters rich scientific interchange across researchers from a broad range of fields including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Education. ICS serves as an incubator of cutting edge research centers and institutes such as the NSF National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (www.isat.ai).

Your Key Responsibilities

• Join a project technical team in developing and deploying web applications for use by middle school students and teachers, or math tutors and their coaches
• Analyze and understand existing web client (React.js, MakeCode PXT) and web API software (Node.js, Python, AWS Amplify) that we are adapting
• Analyze and understand existing AWS serverless application deployment configurations
• Assist in the design and be the primary implementer of new user experience pathways for middle school students, teachers, and/or tutors and coaches
• Develop new components using React and Node.js, and/or MakeCode PXT

What We Can Offer 

These are part-time positions designed for current students at CU with the expectation that the person would work 15-20 hours per week with a salary of $20-25/hour, based on experience.

What We Require 

• Working toward or completed undergraduate or graduate level degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Information Science or similar field and 2+ years of relevant experience
• Development experience/skills in: 

         Front-end: 

o    Proficiency with React (preferred) or similar client-side frameworks such as Vue or Angular, used to develop modern web applications. 

o    Proficient with JavaScript and/or TypeScript, SPAs, CSS, HTML 5, Web development CLIs, and related skills and concepts. 

o    Proficient using REST APIs to consume JSON data in the UI and save to the back-end

And/Or

        Back-end: 

o    Experience with Next.js and Node.js or similar runtime environments to build REST APIs to connect back-end data and services to the front end

o    Experience working with databases to store and retrieve JSON data

Skills to set you apart 

• Front-end:
  
  • Experience using data visualization libraries such as recharts, react-vis, Victory, D3, or amCharts
  • User Experience (UX) design process familiarity
  • Comfortable with statistics for data visualization and summarization
  • Experience building UIs based on Figma designs, or similar
• Back-end:
  
  • AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, Mongoose, and Express.js experience
  • Python and Flask experience
• Dev/Ops: 
  
  • Experience working with and deploying Web applications and services to AWS cloud infrastructure including Amplify, DynamoDB, S3, AWS CLI, Elastic Container Service, EC2, and/or CloudFront.
  • Experience with scripting in Linux, MacOS and similar environments
• Microsoft MakeCode:
  
  • Experience developing Microsoft MakeCode (PXT - Programming eXperience Toolkit) applications. 
  • Experience with pxt-microbit, a Blocks / JavaScript code editor for the BBC micro:bit built on Microsoft MakeCode

What You Will Need 

• Strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and high degree of professionalism. 
• Customer-service oriented approach for managing internal stakeholders 
• Demonstrated organizational skills 
• Strong experience using appropriate software development tools 
• Demonstrated technical writing skills for documenting code and test procedures 

Special Application Instructions for Applicants 

To apply, please submit the following materials: 

1. Resume/CV 

2. Cover Letter 

Review of applications will begin on August 21st 2023 and continue until the positions are filled. Please send applications to: Peter Foltz peter.foltz@colorado.edu with the subject line ”Developer application 2023”