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About the role
Direct client-facing experience is valuable, but this is not primarily an account-management role. You will collaborate with Strategic Project Leads on client delivery. We will provide you with a company laptop on your start date
What they're looking for
- 3–5+ years of relevant research experience, with a Master’s, PhD, or equivalent industry research depth in HCI, Human-Centered AI, ML, design research, or a related field
- Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills, with experience in human evaluation, experimentation, data collection, UX/HCI, annotation, or model behavior research
- Proven ability to independently design and execute rigorous research, including deciding what data to collect, why, and how to analyze it
- Ability to turn data and observations into new insights, research directions, and actionable recommendations
- Comfortable analyzing data with Python and/or SQL
- Strong written communication and ability to clearly explain methodological tradeoffs and research decisions
More about this role
Contra Labs is a human-centered AI lab focused on creative and multimodal outputs, where human taste defines the next generation of AI capabilities.
We build industry-leading creative preference datasets that power benchmarking, evaluation, and post-training for the world's leading AI models and applications. Our work helps define what "good" looks like across design, video, imagery, and beyond.
Built on top of Contra, the professional network for independent creatives, Contra Labs connects frontier AI labs with a global network of top creative talent. Together, we turn human judgment into the training and evaluation layer that enables AI models and tools to power the next generation of human creativity.
Contra Labs is expanding its research work with frontier AI labs across evaluation, post-training data, benchmarking, and human-centered research.
We need a researcher who can take an ambiguous client or research question and independently turn it into a rigorous project: identify the right research direction, develop the methodology, write the proposal, run the work, analyze the results, and produce insights that shape what we or the client should do next.
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