There are a variety of ways to get involved with the Berkman Center, including staff positions, fellowships, and internships.

In whatever way you chose to get involved, at the Berkman Center you'll work with a world-class group of academics and tinkerers, engaging issues we face today and projecting the questions we'll have tomorrow.  In our 23 Everett Street home you'll have the flexibility, freedom, and encouragement to make the job your own, while contributing to our current (and wonderfully) challenging projects.  Get ready to think hard and dig deep!

Staff Positions:

• Financial/Administrative Associate
  
• Junior Software Engineer
  We're looking for a programmer to work on our media cloud project. The media cloud project is collecting and tagging the full stream of news stories from a wide variety of traditional and new media sources both to support its own research efforts to explore the changing news landscape and to provide an open resource for others undertaking related research.  The programmer will have the chance to build the technology for this project from the ground up, including solving interesting problems with web crawling and scraping, topic analysis, and large database optimization.
  
• Senior Systems Administrator
• Systems Administrator
• Web Developer

Many of the jobs above contribute to our team of geeks.  Think you're up for joining them?  Jason Callina, Berkman’s longtime Senior Software Developer, gives his take on the experience:

“The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has been described as an entrepreneurial non-profit.  We behave like a start-up, but the goal of our employees is not to make gobs of money and smoke one hundred dollar bills on a bear rug in front of a roaring fire.  The common thread among the geeks and non-geeks at Berkman is that we are focused on making an impact with the work we do.  This may sound cliche, a bit of web 2.0 jargon, but the people here really believe it and they are actually doing it.

As a web developer, system administrator or technical support you will be working on projects that have bigger implications than your standard IT tasks.  Berkman projects give people voices, shine lights on injustice and help shape policy.  What we find and create is meant to be shared, and our tools and research work best when they are disseminated, remixed and reused for the public good.  At the end of the day we can stand back and be proud of what we have done.

To be a geek at the Berkman Center is to help create things. There are real world problems to solve and technology, specifically the internet, seems like a big enough tool to do the job.  We need people who know how to use those tools.  Some of the most visionary thinking about the net happens within these walls and there are opportunities for someone who can translate those ideas into practical solutions.  If you can do that, then this may be the right place for you.”

Fellowship Positions: 

Please click here to learn more about our fellowship program.

Intern and Research Assistant Program:

If you're interested in joining Berkman as an intern or research assistant, click here.