Research Assistant III

Employer

Job Description

Contract Duration: 12 Months


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:

* Lead data collection proceedings of a new study protocol from inception to the end of the project and work with other RAs as needed.

* Conduct data quality checks on large volumes of data collected and generate monthly analytical report on the quality of data collected

* Working with manager to develop standards from an implementation, support data collection and data management perspective

* Work with manager to generate reports detailing logistics of onsite data collected and maintain an inventory of data collection forms/ID to ensure ease of data retrieval

* Performs good documentation practices with ground truth equipment instructions and ensures compliance in their documentation

* Actively communicate with partners (Tech Support Specialist and Operations Manager) on any onsite disruptions and follow-through to the resolution of data collection issues

* Ensure proper documentation of all data collection issues interaction and prepare accurate & timely reporting

* Train newly hired junior RAs on In-Lab data collection proceedings



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