Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business. Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Co-design and run studies that compare system-generated responses with responses from humans, using both qualitative and quantitative measures. 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A completed or nearly completed PhD in computational social science, communication, HCI, sociology, political science, psychology, statistics, or a related field
- Peer-reviewed publications on which you were a primary author
- Working command of graduate-level statistical methodology common to social science, including the assumptions behind each
- Experience analyzing large-scale telemetry and behavioral datasets, with attention to the validity of the resulting inference
- Familiarity with machine learning, spanning classical, nonparametric, and LLM-based approaches, including how transformer-based language models work, what fine-tuning does, and how the major model families differ
- Fundamentals of computing: file systems, software libraries, databases, SQL, and tabular data
More about this role
Outset invented a better way to do research: AI-powered user interviews.
Global brands like Hubspot, Microsoft, Uber and Nestle use Outset to achieve deeper, qualitative insights about their users at unprecedented speed and scale.
The research industry is massive (>$140B and growing) and ripe for disruption. Incumbents are outdated, slow, and burdened by high-cost services. That's our opportunity.
Outset is backed by top Silicon Valley investors and raised a $30M Series B in December 2025—less than six months after our Series A—led by Radical Ventures with participation from M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), 8VC, Y Combinator, and Adverb Ventures.
The raise follows a breakout year, with our business growing 8x as enterprise customers across industries adopt our category, AI‑moderated research, as the new standard for understanding people.
We’re a tight-knit team serving some of the world’s largest enterprises.
Outset builds digital twins: AI systems that represent specific real people and respond to research questions the way those people would. The Digital Twins Team runs an ongoing research program to measure and improve how faithfully these systems reproduce human responses and...
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