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We are a passionate team of scientists, gamers and hackers who are combining gaming with the latest research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology. We share a vision to create a new kind of gaming company - one that makes a positive difference in the lives of its users. We have a fun, creative and fast paced entrepreneurial environment. We are well funded and hiring! Email us at jobs@lumoslabs.com.

Currently we are hiring for the following positions:

Open Positions
Lead Flash Game Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Create high quality flash games that are fun and make people smarter
  • Coordinate the games team to bring new games through the life-cycle from prototype to production-ready
  • Work closely with our science team to ensure that new games fit into our brain training program

Qualifications:

  • At least 2 years of game industry experience.
  • Experience taking games from idea to launch.
  • Experience with game programming using Flash Actionscript or strong Flash Animation skills.

Flash Game Developer

Responsibilities:

  • Create high quality flash games that are fun and make people smarter.
  • Prototype new game ideas and refine game play of existing prototypes.
  • Always be thinking of ways to improve game play and user experience.

Qualifications:

  • A passion for making games--you have built at least 1 Flash game from start to finish, preferably as a solo project.
  • Game design experience—you know what makes a game fun, and how to talk about it.
  • Actionscript 3.0 experience with OOP techniques.

Game Designer

Responsibilities:

  • Design game play of high quality flash games in order to make people smarter
  • Work with researchers to translate scientifically validated exercises into fun games

Qualifications:

  • Experience designing games
  • Please include your portfolio in your email

Ruby on Rails Developer

Responsibilities:

  • You will be helping produce a test driven scalable application in an Agile development environment.
  • You will be an important part of a small team where your efforts are consequential and manifest.

Qualifications:

    Ideal candidate will be comfortable with
  • Ruby on Rails
  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TDD
  • REST
  • Selenium
  • Capistrano
    • Other technologies employed at Lumos Labs:
  • ActionScript3
  • iPhone SDK

Flash Developer

Responsibilities:

  • You will be responsible for designing and building a unique, high quality user experience for a next generation Flash application client.

Qualifications:

    Ideal candidate will be comfortable with:
  • Creating exciting, high-quality visuals in Flash
  • UI design
  • Object Oriented development using AS3
  • Building an RIA using Flash/AS3
  • ASUnit Test Suite
    • Other technologies employed at Lumos Labs:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • iPhone SDK

Software Engineer - Mobile Products (Contract to Perm)

The position:

  • This is a contract role that would develop into a full-time position with benefits for a smart and hard-working candidate. You will build innovative mobile and web experiences that will help people learn new things, improve their brains, and have fun.

Qualifications:

  • iPhone development experience: Mastery of Objective C, Cocoa, and the iPhone SDK
  • Web application engineering experience
  • Other mobile development experience a plus: Blackberry, Android, etc.
  • Familiarity with version control systems such as CVS or SVN
  • Insistence on a consistent and responsive user experience
  • Experience writing server-side APIs

Located in the South Park neighborhood of SOMA. We're walking distance to Caltrain and BART. View Map.

Notice for Recruiters:
Resumes received by Lumos Labs from recruiters who have not entered into a written contract with Lumos Labs are considered unsolicited and will be kept as Lumos Labs' intellectual property, or deleted as appropriate.

All professional recruiters interested in entering into a contract with Lumos Labs should correspond via email addressed to jobs@lumoslabs.com.