Push your own limits and help others push theirs as you help make Internet history. Metro Internets in smart gigabit cities will permit applications and services that are ultra-responsive, that operate in sync with the real-world, that are designed to serve the Internet of Things, that leverage Big Data, and that provide a degree of inlaid security not possible in today’s Internet.
US Ignite seeks a National Technical Leader to help launch innovative applications and services for novel Metro Internets to be seeded into more than fourteen American smarter cities. She or he will work with technology experts in each seed city to energize that city’s academic and developer communities to produce and deploy imaginative applications and services and to deploy a new city-centric Metro Internet. The result will be novel infrastructure supporting visually attractive and functionally compelling new applications and services in healthcare, education, transportation, public safety, advanced manufacturing, and clean energy.
The National Technical Leader will support implementation of a National Science Foundation-funded leading-edge project to develop and deploy the novel smart-city-centric Metro Internet (future Internet) architecture. The Leader will provide technical assistance and coordinate with each city’s own technical lead, provide second-tier technical support (after the local technical lead) for GENI racks, Paradrop assistance and management, and troubleshooting. The US Ignite Technical Leader will also be responsible for shared community name spaces, authentication, and authorization, and with Viavi, to design, organize and report performance.
The project’s ambitious goal is to assemble and jump-start a growing and sustainable ecosystem of smart gigabit city Metro Internet testbeds and corresponding applications and services delivering important new advances in national priority areas that would not be feasible using today’s commercial Internet. In doing so, the project will open up new economic development opportunities. Multi-gigabit links will interconnect the cities, and community-based interoperable Metro Internet infrastructure will allow entrepreneurs and academics in one community to write visually-compelling and ultra-responsive new Internet applications that can be replicated into other cities and regions. The larger market size created by the expanding ecosystem of such interconnected smart gigabit cities will put this project on a self-sustaining path attractive to entrepreneurs and established companies alike. An important key will be the involvement of citizens and community organizations in building and experimenting with multiple advanced networking applications addressing national priorities.
The Leader selected will join a high-energy US Ignite Team determined to leverage new Metro Internet technology for the benefit of all. The success created will likely lead to a growing number of Metro Internet cities, new startups, and ever wider use of a growing portfolio of Metro Internet applications and services. The selected Leader will end up being very valuable to organizations which will later commercialize Metro Internet technology, applications, and services. US Ignite (https://www.us-ignite.org/) is a non-profit public-private organization launched at the White House in 2012 with inspiration from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation.
QUALIFICATIONS
Loves to work with cutting-edge technologies and people implementing them
Enjoys overcoming challenges
Thrives on creating success and helping others create their own successes
Holds a 4-year college degree in a technical area
Has engaged with development communities, both online and offline
Develops, manages, or administrates on Linux systems
Learns and explains technical concepts and systems
Speaks and writes well and communicates effectively with other technologists
Thinks strategically
Develops and delivers effective presentations
Travels when and as necessary to reach out to developers and city technical leaders
Exhibits a passion for leaning and explaining new technologies
Presents herself or himself professionally
JOB TASKS
Maintain close coordination with each community’s technology leader
Work with community application development teams to spark their imaginations
Identify and address community challenges
Develop a technical implementation handbook for use by community teams
Develop resources (guides, videos, PowerPoint presentations, white papers, wikis, etc.) that help explain the technical portions of the project and ways in which people might benefit from it
Conduct most business by telephone, video, e-mail, and other electronic means, though some in-person evangelism and recruitment will be involved
Encourage and manage information sharing with and between cities and their technical leaders; develop monthly program ideas and materials that can be used by the technical leaders in their local monthly meetings with their developers; facilitate communication and interaction among those responsible for the Metro Internet infrastructure and the city development teams.
Implement and manage the national authentication and authorization systems
Design performance metrics and implement and organize them (with partner Viavi)
Coordinate the design and installation of the city Metro Internets
Write quarterly reports describing technical progress within each community and on the project-wide activities.
WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Reports to the Principal Investigator
Partners with the National Community Leader to ensure successful program results
Coordinates with each city’s Technology Leaders
Communicates with and leverages the wider US Ignite community for project success and dissemination
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Appropriate to knowledge, experience, and location
LOCATION
Washington, DC
Other locations may be considered on an exceptional basis; please explain when you apply
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
US Ignite is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a U.S. veteran.
HOW TO APPLY
Respond to this posting or send an e-mail to hiring@us-ignite.org with a subject line of “National Technical Leader Search – <your name>”. Please include contact information, a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV), and brief phrases to complete the following statements:
(1) “I have a lot of energy for __.”
(2) “One of my favorite software technologies is because “.
(3) “Working on the bleeding edge of technology appeals to me because __.”
Applications submitted without responses to these questions will not be considered complete and may be discarded. E-mail from recruiters or other third parties will be not be accepted.
The position is available immediately. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as received until the position is filled. Successful applicants will pass a background check and have a 90-day probationary period with US Ignite. US Ignite is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.