# Research Scientist at Outset

- Company: Outset
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://outset.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $240K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-22
- Apply by: 2026-12-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outset/a9a0c4b2-b42c-4db2-9d83-c434b894799a?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/outset-research-scientist/

## 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

Tags: Science

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