Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Arizona State University’s Center on Information and Narrative Complexity (CINC) is seeking a Research Scientist to join its interdisciplinary research team. The role focuses on computational methods, human belief dynamics, narrative analysis, and information environments, including developing models, analytical frameworks, and research software capabilities. The candidate will also publish research, mentor students, collaborate with partners, and contribute to proposal development and future research projects.
Responsibilities
- Develop and analyze computational and social systems from behavioral, societal, and human-centered perspectives
- Collaborate with software engineers and data scientists to operationalize social science theories and research outcomes
- Design and develop scalable reproducible model and data pipelines for research and experimentation
- Work with faculty investigators to design, implement, evaluate, test, document, and support user training for the research framework at the core of this project
- Assist with the development and long-term roadmap of the integrated system overseeing design, implementation, evaluation, documentation, and testing
- Support coordination of students, providing guidance to ensure high-quality contributions and timely progress
Skills
- Must have earned a Ph.D and have a minimum of 3 years of research experience at the time of the appointment
- Must work cooperatively or independently in conducting research and in seeking outside funding and supervising others in carrying out significant research projects
- Assistant Research Scientist - PhD and 3 years of research experience
- Associate Research Scientist - PhD and 5 years of research experience
- Research Scientist - PhD and 7 years of research experience
- Experience with complex systems approaches and ability to work across disciplines
- Familiarity with large language models (LLMs) or natural language processing (NLP) for social science applications beyond prompt engineering
- Background working in interdisciplinary and/or national security–adjacent research settings
- Experience with or interest in grant writing and research program development
- Python, including common NLP and machine learning libraries (e.g., spaCy, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, PyTorch)
- Running jobs on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters
- Working with Google Cloud Platform
- Building applications with large language model (LLM) APIs
- Statistical analysis, including intercoder reliability and evaluation of classifier accuracy
- DevOps and workflow Automation
- Software engineering practices (*e.g.,* version control, testing, code review)
- Optional (I.e. statement of research, two or more peer-reviewed publications)
Benefits
- Benefits-eligible, full-time, 12-month position
- The position is open to in-person, hybrid, or remote arrangements
- Opportunity to publish high-impact research
- Opportunity to mentor students
- Opportunity to collaborate with government and academic partners
- Opportunity to develop an independent research agenda over time through proposal development and leadership on future projects
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