Job Description:
The Research Assistant IV will support the HF Perception team in conducting human subjects research. The HF Perception team is an applied research team whose research impacts stakeholders across Meta Reality Labs. The RA will be responsible for the set-up, implementation, and data collection for the studies.
They will need to work with research staff and stakeholders to ensure that the study equipment set up and the study conduct follows all applicable safety plans and the outlined protocol.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Assist principal investigators with experiments involving human subjects.
- RAs may help with experimental design and provide useful feedback prior to study.
- Stage and set up equipment for the study. Study set-up may involve engaging with engineering, external equipment vendors, internal and external safety evaluators, and the research study team to ensure the equipment is set up properly.
- RAs may pilot experiments, make observations, and give feedback to the principal investigator to optimize study procedures.
- RAs may assist the study project manager and external recruiting services in participant recruiting and scheduling activities.
- Conduct the study. This includes any or all of the following: screening participants, obtaining participant consent, assuring the privacy and confidentiality of participants and their data, instructing study participants and guiding them through study procedures, running the study procedures, collecting the data per study design, formatting and annotating the data, and creating basic reports regarding the data.
- RAs are expected to follow procedures related to maintaining confidential information and handling of confidential data and device prototypes.
- Study support services. Support research and development in various areas including data collection, onsite handling, tracking of participant compensation and tracking of equipment and procedures.
- Troubleshoot prototypes used in studies.
- RAs may summarize literature reviews.
- RAs may purchase research papers.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Ability to learn new technologies and processes quickly.
- Experience executing research with human subjects.
- Prior experience as a research assistant or research coordinator.
- Prior data handling experience.
- Experience with office tools (Word, Excel, etc.).
- Prior experience with research participant recruitment and/or participant/patient intake and personal data processing.
- Experience understanding and communicating technical information to non-experts.
- Experience coordinating and maintaining schedules across multiple teams, managing shared resources, and coordinating stakeholders.
- Computer knowledge for hardware troubleshooting
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific discipline.
- 2+ years’ experience as a research assistant or research coordinator in a technology research environment.
- Experience with early stage prototypes.
- Hardware research experience.
- Knowledge or background in human perception (visual/auditory)
This is the pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position $21.38/hour - $29.60/hour
Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
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