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Brain-Score Engineer
  • Job Number: 23474
  • Functional Area: Research - Engineering
  • Department: MIT Quest for Intelligence
  • School Area: Schwarzman College of Computing
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Employment Category: Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
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Job Description

BRAIN-SCORE ENGINEER, MIT Quest for Intelligence-Engineering Team, to work with an established user base and interdisciplinary research groups across MIT to lead the maintenance and development of Brain-Score, a platform that evaluates computational models on their alignment to neural and behavioral brain data in the domains of vision and language.  Will determine requirements, iterate on architectural specifications, and ensure a robust and scalable system that meets identified research needs.  Responsibilities include maintaining all software components of the Brain-Score platform; supporting users in the Quest and worldwide to contribute new models and benchmarks; working with graduate students and postdocs on specific research thrusts in the form of new metrics, data, and computational models; developing new features such as live updates on model scoring, automatically incorporating benchmarks from new neural recordings, and preparing the platform for community-wide competitions; organizing, planning, and executing future development; and other duties as assigned.  

Job Requirements

REQUIRED:  master’s degree in computer science, neuroscience, machine learning, or related field; three years’ Python programming experience; experience building large-scale full-stack software systems and using git-based version control and CI/CD; excellent project-management, analytical, problem-solving, organizational, decision-making, and written and verbal English communication skills; and ability to work in a highly dynamic environment with faculty, staff, students, MIT community members, and Brain-Score users worldwide.  PREFERRED: experience in at least two of the following: computer vision, optimization, natural language understanding, collecting and analyzing behavioral and/or neural data, and/or high-performance distributed computing; research experience developing and testing machine learning and brain and cognition models; familiarity with one or more cloud platforms; and experience with web development and maintenance and with virtualization and containerization.  Job #23474


11/22/23