Research Assistant II

Employer

Job Description

Job Description


Onsite in New York


Meta'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 Meta 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 Meta 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 engineers 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 at the data collection center
  • Supervise Data Collection which include collection of informed consent, supervising experiment protocols participants, handling of confidential data, and creation of basic reports
  • Conduct literature reviews on a wide field of research topics if needed
  • Assist with recruiting and scheduling of experiment participants as needed
  • Review large volume of data for quality issues and provide feedback when quality improvements are needed


Required Characteristics


  • Holds a bachelors 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