Technology Specialist - System 3

Job Summary

Job Title: Technology Specialist, System 3, CSBC. Reports to: Dr Pavan Mamidi, Principal Investigator, System 3. Location: Bengaluru. Experience (in years): 4 to 5 years of professional software or data engineering experience. Nature of work: Full-time, one-year contract, renewable.

Responsibilities

• Build AI-interaction testbeds - Build instrumented environments where people work with AI agents and chatbots, capturing interaction traces, timing and behaviour. Link these systems to other measures, such as eye-tracking and pupillometry. Work with the Principal Investigators to turn research questions into systems that can run studies.
• Run the research data infrastructure - Set up secure data collection, storage and de-identification. Build and maintain data pipelines, automation and version control. Set up and look after the lab's computing equipment.
• Keep the lab open - Maintain the lab's public repository of code, instruments and replication packages. Write documentation that lets other researchers reproduce our work.
• Build prototypes in the Garage - Build software tools and interfaces in our Behavioural Design and Prototyping Garage, our workshop for making research instruments and tools. Examples include deepfake-detection training and scenario engines for low-literacy, multilingual users. Show working builds at regular demo days. Bring in outside specialists when a build needs hardware.

Qualifications

• 4 to 5 years of professional software or data engineering experience.

Technical Skills

Required

• Building and deploying software in a professional setting, with Python and web applications.
• Working with LLM and agent APIs, including logging their inputs and outputs.
• Databases, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Version control, testing and documentation.

Desirable

• Online experiment tools such as jsPsych, oTree or lab.js.
• Instrumenting user interaction (logging and telemetry).
• Research or academic lab experience.
• Offline-first or mobile applications.
• Open-source contributions.
• Data privacy and compliance.

Professional Skills

• Enjoys turning a scientist's question into a working system, and explaining technical choices to non-engineers.
• Takes ownership and works independently.
• Curiosity about how people think and decide, and about how AI changes it.
• A preference for flat teams, where a good idea counts for more than a title.
• Clear writing and good documentation habits.

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