Full-Time Openings

#1314-1124 MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPER. Full-time/Exempt. EEO 6. The Media Design Department at the Science Museum of Minnesota uses digital technologies to build hands-on exhibits, data visualizations, and web experiences to engage all ages of learners in many fields of science. We're looking for a Media Developer to help us build these new media experiences. We build big experiences using PHP and Drupal, small one-off HTML5 applications using tools like Grunt and Handlebars, and tie it all together using Python and Node.js. Sometimes these products are visible online, sometimes they're viewed by our museum visitors here in Minnesota, and sometimes they're viewed by visitors to our many client institutions around the country. Responsibilities: Initial work will involve developing a new website and exhibit media for the upcoming exhibit project Journey to Space, re-imagining the website for a national network of educators (NISE Net, Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network, www.nisenet.org), and supporting miscellaneous media design tasks in several upcoming exhibits. Manage, update and improve multimedia interactive content for exhibits and the web. Program, test, and implement multimedia projects using web technologies. Work closely with project planning teams, particularly other media designers, graphic designers, and exhibit developers on specific media projects. Develop and maintain Drupal Modules. Develop and maintain Drupal theme code. Develop and maintain custom scripts written in Shell, Python, and other scripting languages to solve unique digital media problems. Requirements: Be a creative coder who can jump from web technologies, to basic scripting, and then use hardware troubleshooting to tie it all together, have excellent communication skills and be able to switch between talking about code to the coders and experience to the experience designers, be willing to learn new skills on the job as new challenges pop-up, be excited about creating science based content. BA or equivalent. Demonstrated experience in the development of web pages using PHP, MySQL, and the Drupal CMS; hand coding HTML and CSS; and manipulating files on remote web servers using SSH, and basic UNIX commands. Experience with basic scripting in Javascript and/or Python. Experience using code repositories such as GIT. Must be highly organized and possess a strong attention to detail. Ability to work closely with a team and share ideas. Must be self-directed and possess excellent communication skills. Check us out on GitHub to see the kind of code we write: https://github.com/scimusmn. Pay Rate: DOE. Application Deadline: October 9, 2013. APPLY ONLINE