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# Software Developer/Engineer

- **Company:** PROJECT HIRED
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $208,000.0 - $312,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Databases, Learning Management Systems, Software Debugging, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Backend, Codebase, Front End Software Development, Code Restructuring
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6f9650fbe9e74537

## About the Role

* Strong software engineering fundamentals - comfortable across backend, frontend, and databases
 * Real experience working with LLM/AI APIs and prompt design, not just theoretical familiarity
 * Ability to read and improve an existing codebase, not just build from scratch
 * Self-directed - this is a small team; you'll need to work well with limited day-to-day oversight
 * Comfortable working within an academic/research environment and timeline

Nice to Have

 * Experience with healthcare, EdTech, or simulation/training platforms
 * Familiarity with FERPA or other student-data privacy considerations
 * Experience with LMS integrations (Canvas, LTI) or SSO
 * Interest in health professions education or nursing/clinical workflows

## Description

AI/Software Developer - Nursing Simulation Platform (Part-Time Contract, UT Austin)

Remote-friendly | Part-time contract, 8-12 hrs/week

About Project HAPINES

Project HAPINES (History and Physicals in Nursing Education Systems) is an AI-powered clinical simulation platform that teaches nurse practitioner students how to take a patient history, reason through differential diagnoses, and write competency-mapped assessments and plans - aligned to the AACN/NONPF Essentials. Built at UT Austin in partnership with CHITA (Center for Health Innovations and Technology Advancements), HAPINES is an online nursing simulation platform.

This position is funded through a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) Nursing Innovation Grant Program award. Contract renewal beyond each 3-month term is contingent on continued work.

The Role

We're looking for a coding expert to work directly with our small research team to optimize and extend the HAPINES platform - someone who's comfortable with both traditional software engineering and applied AI/LLM work, and who wants to build something real that's already in use with students.

What You'll Do

 * Optimize performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of the existing AI patient-simulation and grading engine
 * Work with LLM APIs (e.g., Claude, OpenAI) to improve conversational realism, scoring consistency, and prompt reliability
 * Improve and extend the faculty dashboard and competency-mapping/analytics features
 * Debug, refactor, and document existing code as the platform scales to more students and institutions
 * Collaborate closely with the PI, CHITA's technical team, and other student developers on architecture and feature decisions
 * Help evaluate hosting/infrastructure choices (AWS) for cost and performance


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