Research Scientist

Become a part of our caring community Humana’s Quality and Cost Strategy Analytics Team is seeking a Research Scientist 2 (Remote). Healthcare is rapidly changing, and our members are living longer, often with more chronic conditions. The Quality and Cost Strategy Analytics team identifies opportunities and build solutions to improve clinical outcomes and lower costs for millions of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries leveraging data science & analytics, clinical expertise, strategic mindset, and rigorous study designs. In this multi-disciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with strategy partners and clinicians to shape Humana’s future enterprise clinical strategies and initiatives. The Research Scientist 2 will lead research, evaluation and development of opportunities that optimize healthcare delivery, lower medical cost while improve member health outcomes, through applying mathematical, statistical, epidemiologic and data science methods. The Research Scientist 2 will also partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to identify, prioritize and measure the impact of core and novel solutions to significant problems in healthcare and improve the health of especially underserved population, using high volumes of structured and unstructured data. Responsibilities As a Research Scientist 2, you will: Research, prototype and scale new ideas to improve population health and healthcare delivery Collaborate with analytic and business teams to set objectives, approaches, and work plans Collaborate with strategy to evaluate existing programs and identify and measure new solutions to impact healthcare Leverage a wide range of analytics methods ranging from descriptive to prescriptive to transform high volumes of complex data into analytics solut

By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI. About the Role As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company. We expect you to: Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research Nice to have: Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms About OpenAI OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for

WHO WE ARE Edmentum is a dynamic educator and student-focused company dedicated to tech-enabled learning solutions. Our goal is to ensure that all students have access to flexible learning environments and educators have the tools they need to support their students. We are on a mission to create innovative, proven learning technology, partnering with educators to ignite student potential. We are a Remote First organization with a strong commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction. What You’ll Do As a Research Scientist, you’ll contribute to the design and execution of applied AI research studies that provide evidence of reliability, validity, and fairness for Edmentum’s educational products – particularly those that include AI features. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and external researchers, apply advanced psychometric methods, and help communicate research findings to diverse audiences. In this role you will: Conduct and manage rigorous research using applied AI and psychometric methods that support product development and evaluation. Translate complex research methods and results into clear, accessible formats. Collaborate with internal teams and external researchers to support research execution. Prepare research briefs, technical documents, and presentations. Contribute to conference presentations, journal publications, and white papers. Assist in preparing materials for the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) and other expert panels. Who You Are: You have a PhD in psychometrics, quantitative psychology, educational measurement, statistics, data science, AI evaluation, or related field. You bring 1+ years of experience conducting applied AI research, ideally related to educational assessment. You are proficient in R, SAS, or Python for large-scale data analysis. You are familiar with IRT, scaling/equating, and methods for quantifying reliability, including generalizability theory. You communicate technical content clearly to n

Become a part of our caring community The Research Scientist 2 participates in research study design, analysis and interpretation of results, with special emphasis on statistical and analytical plan development; data acquisition, preparation, and management; statistical analysis and interpretation of findings. The Research Scientist 2 work assignments are varied and frequently require interpretation and independent determination of the appropriate courses of action. Humana’s Healthcare Quality & Reporting Improvement (HQRI) department is seeking a Research Scientist 2 to join a high-performing team dedicated to advancing predictive modeling and analytics in support of our Medicare and Medicaid business. The HQRI team plays a pivotal role within Humana, delivering insights that drive the effectiveness of risk adjustment initiatives. In this position, the Research Scientist 2 will partner with a senior research scientist to apply advanced statistical methods to rigorously evaluate the impact of risk adjustment programs and pilot projects. The findings generated will be critical in informing key business decisions and optimizing operational strategies. Additionally, the person in this role will collaborate with colleagues specializing in data science and actuarial analytics. We are seeking a candidate who brings complementary skills to the team, with the ability to learn from their teammates while contributing with their unique expertise in statistical analysis. Use your skills to make an impact Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics or a related quantitative field; 2 years of experience applying statistical modeling, pred

Scale Labs, Research Scientist — Frontier Risk Evaluations As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist focused on Frontier Risk Evaluations, you will design and create evaluation measures, harnesses and datasets for measuring the risks posed by frontier AI systems. For example, you might do any or all of the following: Design and build harnesses to test AI models and systems (including agents) for dangerous capabilities such as security vulnerability exploitation, CBRN uplift, and other high-risk activities; Work with government agencies or other labs to collectively scope and design evaluations to measure and mitigate risks posed by advanced AI systems; Publish evaluation methodologies and write technical reports for policymakers. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Practical experience conducting technical research collaboratively. You should be comfortable building and instrumenting ML pipelines, writing evaluation harnesses, and quickly turning new ideas from the research literature into working prototypes. A track record of published research in m

Scale Labs, Research Scientist — Safety Post Training As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist working on Safety Post-Training you will develop and apply post-training methods and interpretability techniques to make frontier AI systems safer, and better understood by researchers and policymakers.. For example, you might: Design and run post-training pipelines to study how training choices affect model safety, robustness, and alignment properties; Develop interpretability-informed evaluations that reveal how and why models produce unsafe, deceptive, or otherwise undesirable behaviors, and use those insights to guide targeted mitigations; Collaborate with policymakers, engineers, and other researchers to translate post-training and interpretability findings into actionable safety standards, evaluation benchmarks, and best practices. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Experience with post-training and RL techniques such as RLHF, DPO, GRPO, and similar approaches. A track record of published research in machine learning, particularly in generati