Expression of Interest
OpenMined
📍Remote (Global) 🕔 Part or Full Time
🔄 Rolling Applications
You will join OpenMined, an open source community led by Andrew Trask (author of Grokking Deep Learning), as an expression of your interest in joining the OpenMined community, this is an opportunity to tell us about your background and skills. You can contribute in a way that leverages your industry experience, offers you an opportunity to grow new skills, while helping us solve the remote data access problem for the benefit of all.
Our work together will demonstrate the effectiveness of OpenMined’s flagship product, PySyft (9.1K Github stars and currently deployed at Microsoft and the United Nations). PySyft empowers external researchers to derive insights using proprietary assets hosted across various distributed organizations, all without the need to directly access the data. This promotes a collaborative environment where non-public data can be networked together and safely utilized collectively for groundbreaking applications.
We are looking for highly talented individuals with hard won industry experience, a track record of exceeding expectations, and who are ready to level up and do the most challenging and rewarding work of their career so far. This is a unique opportunity to support the building of infrastructure that has never existed before while spearheading cutting edge R&D projects examining real world use cases. Collaborate with us on global impact projects like the Christchurch Call Initiative on Algorithmic Outcomes, the United Nations PET Lab initiatives with the US Census Bureau, the AI Safety Institute in the United Kingdom, and most recently through NSF’s National AI Research Resource (NAIRR).
Responsibilities
Actively contribute to our diverse and inclusive team culture.
Interact with globally recognized partner organizations to ensure product success.
Develop OpenMined products and projects in a secure, tested and efficient way.
Meet our internal guidelines and standards, coding practices and style.
Be an advocate for high quality through code and document reviews.
Work independently, solving problems and providing support to team members and the community.
Work well with others across time zones with minimal supervision.
Driven to test assumptions both personally and professionally.
Qualifications
Effective communication skills and desire for radical candor.
The ability to learn things quickly as needed.
Passionate about #AI / #ML (expertise is not required).
Timing is right and you are ready to contribute effectively within a team.
Familiar with OpenMined as an organization and its mission.
Performs well both as an individual and as a team contributor.
Desires to make a positive impact on OpenMined products.
Contributes to best practices, maturity and overall wellness of our team.
Strong sense of ownership and accountability for anything you build.
Compensation & Benefits
You will work fully remote from wherever you want and experience the freedom to use the tools that empower you to find the best way to be productive at work. We are an open source community so the money we receive to fund our work comes from donations, sponsorships and grants for specific projects.
Be a part of a 501(c)(3) instead of a profit driven VC backed startup.
Build open source software you know is going to remain available (as opposed to closed-source which can be shelved after years of work).
Work somewhere that values getting things done over organizational entropy.
A remote first and flexibly scheduled contract position for you to best manage your working hours.
Projects to build with incredibly talented developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world.
Impactful projects that are global in scale and are on the cutting edge of privacy-preserving technology; projects we truly believe will help humanity.
We pay competitively.
Flexible vacation time so you can spend your free time feeling truly relaxed.
Volunteer opportunities and recognition.
Additional Information
OpenMined is an equal opportunity, inclusive employer and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants’ needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.
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