Research Associate - AI Evaluations

At Karya, we’re building AI evaluation systems that measure and understand whether AI systems actually work for the communities they’re meant to serve. We’re looking for a Research Associate to help design and run community-facing research that shapes how AI systems are evaluated. You’ll contribute to research workstreams end to end: shaping the research design, building toolkits, running fieldwork, and turning what you learn into evaluation frameworks and datasets.

You’ll contribute to a range of evaluation projects across the team. These could include building a gender-bias benchmark for AI chatbots in domains like agriculture; conducting grounded research into what people in India actually use AI for, in which languages and in what contexts, to build evaluation categories from real use; or contributing to conceptual and methods work on what “community” and “participatory” should mean in AI evaluation, pressure-tested against fieldwork with Karya’s worker community.