Job Description

Duration: 12 months

Pay Rate: $18-25

Our client's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we're just getting started.

At our client's Reality Labs, our goal is to explore, innovate and design novel interfaces and hardware subsystems for the next generation of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences. We are looking for a motivated researcher to join our team, whose mission is to create and apply scientific knowledge about the cognitive system to improve human experiences in the augmented world. We are specifically looking for candidates with experience in supporting human behavioral experiments. Our team of researchers is identifying cognitively-inspired solutions for human computer interaction. The chosen candidates will work with a diverse and highly interdisciplinary team of researchers and will have access to cutting edge technology, resources, and testing facilities.

Responsibilities:

* Stage, set up, and/or manage equipment and lab spaces to be used for experiments

* Conduct experiments which include collection of informed consent, running experiment protocols, handling of confidential data, data annotation, and creation of basic reports

* Conduct literature reviews on a wide field of research topics

* Assist with recruiting and scheduling of experiment participants

* Help with evaluating experimental design, as well as its effect on data quality and provide feedback during design

* Assist with preparing study documentation for approvals

* Review large volume of data for quality issues and provide feedback when quality improvements are needed

* Documenting processes and maintaining data records

Required Characteristics:

* Holds a bachelor’s degree in the field of psychology, cognitive science, HCI, or related areas

* Strong communication, interpersonal and personal management skills

* High attention to detail

* Experience running behavioral experiments and collecting data

* Stable internet connection for remote work

3 must-have skills: Data Collection Supervision, Understanding the architecture and management of operating systems, visualization software, and networking, and Strong communications skills

Successful background: research assistant background, pysch, neuroscience, people skills, statistical skills, AWS, data collection, data analysis skills