Research Scientist Job Description

Research Scientist Job Description

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Research scientist provides technical support via knowledge of principles and theories through familiarity with competing technologies and/or products and review of current scientific literature.

Research Scientist Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Develop a deep understanding of data to understand usage patterns and apply the knowledge gained in developing algorithms that satisfy user needs
Work closely with research engineers to develop prototypes and transfer research to products
Communicate research results to product and engineering teams
Actively participate in the research community by publishing in top tier conferences and journals
Install, upgrade and lead day-to-day operations for platform infrastructure including hardware, mathematical software packages, libraries, compilers, visualization software
Push your own research agenda and look to influence our products and services with your expertise
Plan and participate in site visits, on-site provider and patient focus groups
Work on the defect system in SiC and its reaction to strains (motion)
Calculate the temperature dependence of this system to see if it can provide temperature sensing of interest
Work on related defect systems including pair vacancy defects and complexes of vacancies with nitrogen impurities in the hexagonal phase of SiC and on single vacancy defects and possibly other defects in cubic SiC, a material which have potentially interesting properties

Research Scientist Qualifications

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Licensing or Certifications for Research Scientist

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Education for Research Scientist

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Employers hiring for the research scientist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Computer Science, Biology, Science, Education, Communication, Statistics, Biochemistry, Engineering, Technical

Skills for Research Scientist

Desired skills for research scientist include:

General chemistry and separation science
Pertinent literature
Technical operating systems
Statistics
Python
Machine learning
Molecular biology
Principles and theories
Advances in specialized fields through attendance of scientific conferences
Biochemistry

Desired experience for research scientist includes:

Entity and relation extraction, disambiguation and ranking
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (we will accept written documentation within 90 days of your employment start date that you have completed all of the requirements for your PhD, and that your doctorate degree has been or will be conferred upon you in the near future.)
Strong publication record in major conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ACM Multimedia, WWW, SIGIR, etc)
Experience in Machine l=Learning and data driven techniques
Experience in C, or C++, Java, etc
Experience with Hadoop and large-scale data analysis a plus

Research Scientist Examples

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Research Scientist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of research scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for research scientist
  • Travel (20%) to customer sites to perform on-site work
  • Construct and maintain customized acoustic systems
  • Assemble experimental techniques for data acquisition
  • Provide advice on material processes
  • Conduct experiments to validate acoustic insulation and absorption
  • Conduct literature research, contribute to the preparation of research reports and participate in lab discussions
  • Use principles of predictive/statistical model and other fields to build world-class, scalable models that have high business impact
  • Grab and shape large volumes of behavioral customer data
  • Conceptualize, formulate, prototype, and productionize algorithms to capture customer behavior and solve business problems
  • Work directly with a diverse scientific team of ML scientists, statisticians and behavioral scientists computer scientists and engineers
Qualifications for research scientist
  • Text classification and clustering
  • Interdisciplinary interests a plus
  • Experience in user-centered evaluations a plus
  • Utilizes advanced scientific and technical knowledge that would normally be obtained through graduate study, originality and inventiveness in a professional discipline, such as chemistry, mathematics, physics, engineering science, computer science, Exhibits superior scientific proficiency and/or potential as an expert in the field
  • Basic knowledge in Perform Scientific Research
  • At least 7 publications in first-tier conferences (i.e, SIGGRAPH, IEEE)
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Research Scientist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a research scientist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for research scientist
  • Collaborate with PI to develop novel molecular imaging technologies
  • Work independently day-to-day as lead researcher on multiple R&D projects
  • Collaborate with other laboratories to apply the technologies in diverse organisms
  • Supervise the work of lab technicians within the Molecular Technologies resource
  • Provide technical support to users of the Molecular Technologies resource
  • Work with a software engineer to develop and maintain the Molecular Technologies website
  • Contribute to the preparation of publications, grant proposals, and annual reports
  • Develop, validate and troubleshoot analytical methods
  • Responsible for all technical aspects of analytical methodology in QC including method development, continuous improvement, validation/qualification, and transfer into and out of QC
  • Lead and support specific research projects and support any Pilot Plant activities
Qualifications for research scientist
  • Prior experience with advanced technology areas in 5G such as heterogeneous networks, interference management, multi-radio networks, MIMO, channel coding, radio resource management
  • Materials characterization, including metallography and fractography
  • Material manufacturing processes and its impacts on mechanical properties of material
  • CAE analyses experience using ABAQUS
  • 3+ years of experience on thermomechanical fatigue testing, metallography and CAE modeling
  • Operation of servo hydraulic test machines equipped with elevated temperature capabilities
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Research Scientist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of research scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for research scientist
  • Collaboration with business stakeholders to apply and adapt existing models to new scenarios
  • Identify business opportunities and needs to develop associated analytical models that deliver useful, actionable insights, or recommendations
  • Participate in, or lead cross functional teams to address problem
  • Identify new data driven business opportunities beyond the current business focus by combining existing and new data and help to institutionalize a data-driven analysis
  • Identifying relevant data sources and applying a variety of tools and techniques to prepare and manipulate the data for analysis
  • Visualization and reporting techniques to present findings and recommendations
  • Drive data architectures needed for sourcing and wider consumption and analysis in addition to applied problem solving
  • Collaborating with Solution Architects to provide insights into current and future trends
  • Giving advice on adequate quality, analysis, processing, privacy and security of internal and external data
  • Helping to improve our predictive and cognitive capabilities
Qualifications for research scientist
  • Thermomechanical fatigue testing and modeling of materials for high temperature applications (e.g., cylinder heads and exhaust manifolds
  • Internship experience in automated driving related technologies
  • Manage testing and material characterization of automotive materials
  • Professional exposure in elevated temperature material properties and testing, including thermomechanical fatigue
  • Professional exposure in materials characterization, including metallography and fractography
  • Practical understanding of HTML5, CSS3 and experience building responsive websites from the ground up or with Bootstrap or Foundation
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Research Scientist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of research scientist. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for research scientist
  • Applies advanced mathematical theory, statistical analysis and machine learning techniques to improve existing approaches and designs
  • Owns the development and implementation of machine learning models and algorithms to predict buyer and seller behavior
  • Create a database of our product characterization information
  • Fully characterize product
  • Set up a fully functioning cell culture lab including specifying equipment
  • Begin testing our product under a variety of conditions and against various cell lines
  • Look at current products and target cell lines
  • Identify candidate platforms and options
  • Be an active member of the team
  • Report out weekly on progress on your efforts
Qualifications for research scientist
  • Structured prediction learning
  • Syntactic and Semantic parsing
  • Entity extraction and disambiguation
  • Classification, clustering and intent modeling
  • Strong design and implementation skills in Java, C++, Scala Experience with large-scale production code development a plus
  • Familiar with data analysis tools and libraries, such as SPSS, Weka, R and/or scikit-learn
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Research Scientist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a research scientist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for research scientist
  • Research and implement novel machine learning and computer vision approaches
  • Perform protein biochemistry techniques
  • Perform molecular biology techniques including cloning
  • Collaborating across functions/groups as needed to drive project success and successful commercialization
  • Internal and external communication of technology and project results
  • Securing intellectual property on key technologies and compositions
  • Working externally to advance Olin epoxy's reputation as a leading science and technology company in the Epoxy industries
  • This position requires 10-20% of the time travelling to customers in North America
  • Understand the physics of acoustic propagation and scattering in underwater environments in the medium-to-high frequency range, targeting communication applications
  • Develop methods to analyse experimental data, using computational and signal processing tools
Qualifications for research scientist
  • Knowledge of clinical/genomic/behavior data is a plus
  • Familiar with big data platforms and tools, such as HDFS, Hadoop, Mahout and Spark is a plus
  • Creative, independent and Self-motivated
  • Team-work and good Chinese/English communication skill
  • B.S in a biological or related field
  • 1 year of experience performing coating simulations

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