iOS Developer, embedded at the UCLA Kasari Lab
SKIES (Visual Choices AAC) · Los Angeles
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## iOS Developer (Embedded at the UCLA Kasari Lab) **Location:** Los Angeles (Onsite) **Schedule:** Full-time, 5 days/week **Start:** January 2027 **Duration:** 6 months (Phase I) **Compensation:** $65k ($130k annualized) ### About the role SKIES (Visual Choices AAC) is seeking an **iOS Developer** to be **embedded in the Kasari Lab at UCLA** from day one. You’ll work closely with an implementation lead who spends time with clinicians, and you’ll help build **Visual Play**—an app that makes a play-based autism communication intervention easier for regular clinicians to deliver. Over **24 weeks**, the intervention supports minimally verbal autistic children in making gains in **communication and social connection**. Your work will focus on building and owning the app **end to end**. ### What you’ll do - Build **Visual Play** by turning pieces of the intervention (and others) into an app clinicians can use during play - Own the app **end to end** (from prototype through delivery) - Collaborate closely with **researchers and clinicians** and incorporate feedback - Build **large, complex, but maintainable** systems ### What we’re looking for - Shipped **real native iOS apps** - Comfortable working closely with researchers/clinicians and taking feedback - Uses **AI as a force multiplier**, while understanding and maintaining the code it produces (not dependent on it) - Resourceful, motivated, and tenacious - Calm, respectful presence in a research lab ### Interview process - Includes a **60-minute collaborative coding session** - **No AI assistants** ### Funding / context Visual Play is funded by an **NIH SBIR award** to SKIES (a small Pasadena company started by Caltech alums). SKIES makes **Visual Choices**, one of the most-used communication apps for early communicators. ### Next steps More: https://skieslearn.com/ndbi/jobs/developer **Contact:** julius@skieslearn.com
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