CareerPlan

Research Scientist

San FranciscoFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and execute research studies to measure and improve the fidelity of AI digital twins in simulating human responses and behavior.

Role type

Research Scientist (AI/Computational Social Science)

Builds

Digital twins (AI systems representing real people)

Domain

AI research, computational social science, digital twins

Deliverable

research

Required skills

computational social science methodology, survey methodology, experiment design, statistical analysis, machine learning, LLM fine-tuning, data analysis

Preferred skills

generative agents, digital twins simulation, panel-based data collection, qualitative interviews, computational linguistics

Technologies

LLMs, transformers, SQL, databases

Responsibilities

Co-design and run studies comparing system-generated vs human responses; design performance measures; apply statistical techniques for benchmarking simulation performance; design evaluation experiments; oversee human rating studies; design data collection from third-party and human sources; specify analyses for engineering implementation; co-author academic papers.