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. 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 someone who can help us:
- Continue updating our K12 content based on your expertise and feedback from customers. Whenever possible, these lessons should cross-link into state and national standards.
- Continually design new experiments that students and teachers will enjoy and learn from.
- Interact with our high school teacher clients to learn what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong.
We are looking for someone with experience in high school education as well as experiment design. Knowledge of physiology is not necessary but preferred. You would be one of our first employees!
Perks of working with ByB: You'd be doing something truly new with science education. 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 beyond our production floor, you will be working from home or your own workspace. Most of the Backyard Brains team come from neuroscience and are not professional K12 educators, so you will find yourself teaching us as well how to build useful tools for the classroom!
If interested, send us an email with a sample lesson plan / experiment you have designed and a little anecdote about yourself (do you have any weird hobbies /built anything for fun?) to info@backyardbrains.com.
Looking for a good code monkey!
Backyard Brains is hiring! We are a start-up with the goal of offering low cost neurotechnology for all. We are looking to expand and improve our educational products. A large user need and request has been for more features on our iPhone and Android applications that interfaces with our inventions. We need someone full-time who can:
- Continually innovate, develop, and maintain our iPhone and Android Software
- Develop HTML5 version of our software that works using the Web Audio Input API
- 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 one of a few full-time 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. But it's a lot of fun, and you can be proud that what you are working on is used in classrooms all around the world.
Perks of working with ByB: You'd be doing something truly new with science education. 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 beyond our production floor, 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 during the work week, and occasionally weekends 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 (any cool hobbies or projects?)to info@backyardbrains.com. This position is available immediately.