Principal Engineer, ASML

Harvard University
Position Title: Principal Engineer, ASML
Req ID: 66866BR
School or Unit: Harvard Law School
Description: Position Description
The Berkman Klein Center (BKC) at Harvard University's Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) is a three-year, "pop-up" research initiative to accelerate progress on social media's most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By convening participants across industry, government, civil society, and academia in timebound collaboration, the Institute aims to improve the state of digital social spaces through multi-model output.
The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML), established within RSM, is hiring practitioners from industry to develop products, tools, and protocols for existing and new social media platforms. Teams of technologists will work in thematic 'pods', generating and driving new ideas, projects, and experiments around themes like Trust and Safety Tooling, Political Deliberation, Disinformation Mitigation and more. The lab's output will range from white papers to fully-functional product prototypes.
A Principal Engineer will work with a small team of engineers to design, build, and test new kinds of social media technology. The technology may span the entire stack, from back-end storage to front-end user interfaces. In concert with a product manager and senior ASML staff, the Principal Engineer will ensure that the new technology satisfies traditional engineering goals like scalability and robustness while also meeting project-specific prosocial goals (e.g., giving users more control over their data, or strengthening a user's ability to defend against online harassment).
Job Specific Responsibilities:
As a Principal Engineer, you will:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your project peers.

• Help build and lead development of multiple discrete projects at once.

• Work with product management, lab director, and faculty to understand project needs and execute on shared vision.

• Collaborate with other ASML pods to identify technical areas of cross-pollination

• Engage with the larger RSM and BKC communities (e.g., by attending workshops and seminars) to stay abreast of current developments in the social media (and public-interest technology more generally)

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of seven years' post-secondary education or relevant work experience

Additional Qualifications and Skills
We are looking for people who have:

• Technical experience with coding, testing, UX design, or other CS skills

• Ability to exercise sound and effective judgment in complex decision making

• Good judgment and ability to make decisions independently

• Experience managing diverse and cross-functional teams¿

• Ability to set team direction and prioritize in an ambiguous space

• Experience building reliable, scalable, and performant tools and/or platforms

Additional Information
This is a term appointment expected to extend through June 30, 2025, subject to departmental funding and need.
We regret that Harvard Law School is unable to provide visa sponsorship for staff positions.
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Benefits
We invite you to visit Harvard's Total Rewards website (https://hr.harvard.edu/totalrewards) to learn more about our outstanding benefits package, which may include:

• Paid Time Off: 3-4 weeks of accrued vacation time per year (3 weeks for support staff and 4 weeks for administrative/professional staff), 12 accrued sick days per year, 12.5 holidays plus a Winter Recess in December/January, 3 personal days per year (prorated based on date of hire), and up to 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents who are primary care givers.
• Health and Welfare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, disability and life insurance programs, along with voluntary benefits. Most coverage begins as of your start date.
• Work/Life and Wellness: Child and elder/adult care resources including on campus childcare centers, Employee Assistance Program, and wellness programs related to stress management, nutrition, meditation, and more.
• Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with contributions from 5% to 15% of eligible compensation, based on age and earnings with full vesting after 3 years of service.
• Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive program including $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and reduced tuition through other participating Harvard graduate schools.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Program that provides 75% to 90% reimbursement up to $5,250 per calendar year for eligible courses taken at other accredited institutions.
• Professional Development: Programs and classes at little or no cost, including through the Harvard Center for Workplace Development and LinkedIn Learning.
• Commuting and Transportation: Various commuter options handled through the Parking Office, including discounted parking, half-priced public transportation passes and pre-tax transit passes, biking benefits, and more.
• Harvard Facilities Access, Discounts and Perks: Access to Harvard athletic and fitness facilities, libraries, campus events, credit union, and more, as well as discounts to various types of services (legal, financial, etc.) and cultural and leisure activities throughout metro-Boston.

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Department Office Location: USA - MA - Cambridge
Job Code: I0759P Applications Professional V
Job Function: Information Technology
Work Format: Remote
Sub Unit: ------------
Salary Grade: 059
Department: Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Union: 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary
Time Status: Full-time
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