Research Scientist
Outset, San Francisco
The role
The Research Scientist works directly with and reports to the Head Scientist. Together you will choose what to study, design the studies, define how results are measured, interpret the findings, and write them up for internal decision-making and, where appropriate, for academic publication. You will bring current methodological training in computational social science, data science, survey-methodology, human-computation interaction, and experiment design.
What you will do
- Co-design and run studies that compare system-generated responses with responses from humans, using both qualitative and quantitative measures.
- Design, justify, and hone measures of performance.
- Apply and adapt state-of-the-art statistical techniques common to survey methodology and large-scale social data analysis, to benchmark and improve sample- and population-level simulation performance.