Decision Research Scientist

Posted 21 Days Ago
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7 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Big Data • Information Technology • Analytics • Business Intelligence
Our mission is to build data infrastructure to connect developing markets to the global market.
The Role
Apply formal decision theory and structured reasoning to enterprise problems: design decision frameworks, model uncertainty and tradeoffs, test decision architectures, run experiments, and translate research into system-ready primitives collaborating with engineering and product teams.
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Decision Research Scientist

Team: Research & Development
Location: Flexible / Remote
Reporting to: Head of R&D

Role Overview

Rwazi advances decision systems — software capable of structured reasoning under real-world constraints.

The Decision Research Scientist applies formal reasoning, modeling, and experimentation to real enterprise decision problems.

This role operates at the boundary between research and application.

It translates abstract decision theory, evaluation logic, and structured reasoning into practical system improvements that enhance Rwazi’s decision intelligence.

This is applied decision research — not academic isolation.

Core Mandate

The Decision Research Scientist is accountable for:

  • Designing formal decision frameworks for complex enterprise problems

  • Modeling tradeoffs, uncertainty, and signal ambiguity

  • Advancing structured reasoning methodologies

  • Testing and validating new decision architectures

  • Converting research insight into system-ready primitives

This role strengthens the reasoning depth of Rwazi’s decision engine.

Key ResponsibilitiesApplied Decision Modeling
  • Formalize complex business questions into structured decision systems

  • Model uncertainty, tradeoffs, and multi-variable constraints

  • Design evaluation logic for ambiguous signal environments

  • Develop structured judgment methodologies

Research-to-Application Translation
  • Apply theoretical frameworks to real client use cases

  • Test decision logic against live or simulated environments

  • Identify structural weaknesses in existing decision pathways

  • Propose formal improvements with measurable rigor

Experimental Design
  • Design controlled experiments to validate reasoning enhancements

  • Define metrics for decision quality and output consistency

  • Compare alternative system architectures under defined constraints

Cross-Functional Integration
  • Collaborate with Research Engineers to prototype research concepts

  • Provide formal specifications to Product and Engineering

  • Advise leadership on long-term decision capability evolution

Role Impact

Strong performance in this role results in:

  • More reliable and explainable decision outputs

  • Increased reasoning depth across signal types

  • Expansion into new classes of enterprise problems

  • Stronger structural defensibility

This role deepens Rwazi’s intellectual core.

What This Role Is Not
  • This is not feature delivery

  • This is not surface-level analytics

  • This is not academic research detached from application

This role requires rigorous thinking applied to real-world constraints.

Qualifications and Profile

We are looking for individuals who demonstrate:

  • Strong grounding in decision theory, systems modeling, or applied reasoning

  • Experience formalizing ambiguous problems into structured frameworks

  • Comfort working with AI systems and reasoning architectures

  • Ability to design and evaluate experiments rigorously

  • Intellectual independence and systems thinking

Candidates may come from applied AI research, quantitative modeling, computational social science, economics, operations research, or advanced analytics domains.

How Candidates Are Evaluated

Candidates are evaluated based on:

  • Their ability to formalize complex decision problems

  • The rigor and clarity of their reasoning models

  • Evidence of applying theory to practical systems

  • Depth of structured thinking

  • Their ability to improve decision quality measurably

Summary

The Decision Research Scientist advances Rwazi’s applied decision intelligence by turning complex reasoning into structured, validated system logic.

Skills Required

  • Strong grounding in decision theory, systems modeling, or applied reasoning
  • Experience formalizing ambiguous problems into structured frameworks
  • Comfort working with AI systems and reasoning architectures
  • Ability to design and evaluate experiments rigorously
  • Intellectual independence and systems thinking
  • Backgrounds such as applied AI research, quantitative modeling, computational social science, economics, operations research, or advanced analytics
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The Company
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Rwazi is a market intelligence platform that provides companies with actionable data from developing markets on who is buying what, for how much, from where, when, and why, to help them drive revenue and expand. Rwazi utilizes a network of local consumers (called mappers) spread across 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and South America to collect data from their localities, empowering leading multinational companies around the world to better understand their consumers and grow their businesses in developing markets.

Why Work With Us

Join us on an exciting mission to bring offline data online, with lots of room for growth, and a positive team.

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