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Researches North American alternative-investment investors, maintains investor data quality and provenance, reconciles conflicting evidence, and documents defensible decisions. The role also supports AI-agent and web-monitoring workflow development, validates automated outputs, conducts approved outreach, and collaborates with research, data, product, engineering, and client teams to improve coverage, accuracy, and efficiency.

Conduct equity research on small- and mid-cap software companies by analyzing financial statements, industry and market data, and maintaining financial models and databases. Co-author research content with the Senior Analyst, communicate investment conclusions, attend industry events, develop company relationships, and collaborate across research teams. The role requires FINRA licensing, regulatory compliance, background screening, and up to 10% travel.

Conduct healthcare services equity research, including financial statement and industry analysis, financial modeling, database maintenance, and research writing. Build relationships with companies and industry contacts, communicate investment conclusions, collaborate across research teams, and comply with FINRA licensing and regulatory requirements. The role requires at least two years of securities research experience and up to 10% travel.

Conduct market and desk research, develop quantitative analyses, solve client business problems, and synthesize insights into presentations and recommendations. Manage project plans, status updates, risks, and client relationships while supporting project delivery and mentoring Associates. The role requires strong communication, organization, teamwork, analytical ability, and client focus in a hybrid consulting environment with travel as needed.

Conduct commercially oriented AI/ML research with internal data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. Formulate problems, develop algorithms and models, run experiments, create benchmarks, evaluate results, and deliver tested Python code. Contribute to production-scale AI applications, reusable research assets, and high-impact initiatives. Communicate findings through presentations, publications, and white papers while researching areas such as synthetic data, foundation models, reinforcement learning, multimodal AI, multi-agent systems, formal reasoning, and privacy-preserving machine learning.

Develop algorithms, software, data-management systems, mathematical models, and simulations supporting systematic equity investment research. Collaborate with computer scientists, data scientists, quantitative researchers, and investors to convert research ideas into reliable technology solutions. Contribute to distributed and high-performance computing systems, emphasizing scalability, reliability, and research effectiveness.

Provides laboratory animal husbandry, handling, restraint, health monitoring, and basic veterinary support for research studies. Maintains animal supplies, supports cage wash operations, performs technical services such as injections and blood collection, and trains new hires. Requires compliance with animal welfare, laboratory practice, and accreditation standards. The role is onsite, physically demanding, and includes weekend, holiday, early morning, and emergency essential-personnel coverage.

Leads antibody discovery campaigns from library construction and selection through sequencing, hit confirmation, and lead optimization. Designs yeast and phage display experiments, constructs immune libraries, performs molecular biology, cell culture, flow cytometry, ELISA, BLI, and NGS analyses. Develops Python-based data workflows and uses AI-enabled tools for high-throughput screening and sequence-function analysis. Troubleshoots discovery programs and formulates quantitative, mechanistic hypotheses to guide biotherapeutic development.

Conduct manager research, maintain investment data and monitoring tools, develop asset allocation studies and capital markets materials, support Morningstar reporting functionality, and provide advisors with research-driven resources and data support. The role requires translating investment insights into actionable client-facing deliverables while managing recurring reports, surveys, searches, and multiple deadlines.

Develop AI/ML analytics, automation, and decision-making tools for Securities Services, Payments, and CIB Treasury. Responsibilities include designing scalable transaction-data architecture, optimizing deposit management and net interest income under financial constraints, developing models from prototype through production, presenting quantitative insights, and collaborating across quantitative research, treasury, technology, investment, and data analytics teams.

Leads medical and clinical oversight for Phase I–IV clinical trials at Pfizer’s Clinical Research Unit. Serves as Investigator and Principal Investigator, supporting protocol development, regulatory submissions, participant assessments, safety monitoring, adverse event review, informed consent, data review, and study governance. Provides 24/7 participant safety coverage, collaborates with Pfizer sites and hospitals, ensures compliance with ICH-GCP and applicable regulations, and mentors less experienced staff.

Supports a senior equity research analyst covering Consumer Staples by building financial models, monitoring news, conducting industry and company research, gathering primary data, analyzing investment themes, and helping write client research reports. The associate may develop relationships with company executives, industry contacts, sales and trading teams, and institutional investors.

Conducts rodent-based in vivo neurodegenerative disease and drug-discovery studies. Responsibilities include animal handling, restraint, dosing, tissue collection, small-animal imaging preparation and operation, data support, research documentation, SOP development, and study coordination. The role also supports animal care, husbandry, colony maintenance, and training under multidisciplinary supervision.

Research healthcare providers, benefit plans, eldercare services, and related resources to support members, nurses, and advocates. Document findings, respond to member requests, maintain accurate case records, follow up with members and providers, and ensure compliance with quality standards, HIPAA, COBRA, and applicable regulations. The role requires strong communication, organization, research, customer service, and problem-solving skills.

Conducts monitoring activities for in vitro diagnostic clinical trials, including site qualification, initiation, interim monitoring, close-out visits, source data verification, regulatory and GCP compliance assessment, recruitment tracking, site training, reporting, and issue resolution. Builds relationships with investigators and site staff, maintains study systems, coordinates visit logistics, and supports multiple sponsors and therapeutic areas while meeting project timelines.

Leads advanced analytics, predictive modeling, survey research, program evaluation, and career-outcomes analysis for university strategic initiatives. Develops statistical models, integrates complex datasets, builds executive dashboards, and translates findings into reports, policy recommendations, and data stories. Collaborates with academic and administrative stakeholders to evaluate student success, academic programs, work-based learning, and institutional effectiveness.

Conduct equity research on U.S. chemical companies by building financial models, analyzing statements, filings, industry data, news, and management commentary. Write research reports, develop investment theses, communicate recommendations to clients, participate in site visits and management meetings, and support research products. The role requires strong accounting, finance, communication, organizational, analytical, and client-service skills, along with proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Bloomberg, or FactSet.

Conducts end-to-end clinical study monitoring, including site selection, initiation, interim monitoring, and closeout. Ensures protocol, regulatory, and GCP compliance; verifies clinical data against source documents; addresses site noncompliance; maintains accurate regulatory and Trial Master File documentation; and communicates study updates to cross-functional teams. This remote U.S.-based role requires approximately 50% travel, primarily supporting Neurovascular clinical trials.

Conducts clinical site monitoring and management across study phases, including site selection, initiation, interim monitoring, and closeout. Ensures protocol, regulatory, and GCP compliance; verifies case report form data against source documents; addresses site noncompliance; maintains regulatory and Trial Master File documentation; and communicates study updates to cross-functional teams. This remote U.S.-based role requires approximately 50% travel.

Conduct research on agentic marketplaces involving autonomous AI agents that negotiate, transact, and coordinate. Develop theoretical and empirical methods to study strategic behavior, collusion, information leakage, manipulation, market efficiency, and fairness. Build LLM-agent simulation testbeds, evaluation frameworks, datasets, and open-source tools; publish findings, assist with grants and manuscripts, and mentor graduate students.

Conducts research on human-AI interface design, develops interaction patterns, and supports digital archive data workflows for machine learning datasets. Responsibilities include metadata analysis, exploratory data analysis, data augmentation and organization, and liaison work between Liberatory Tech and Douglass Day projects. The associate will also participate in critical discussions about AI use in digital archives and support programming initiatives.

Supports equity analysts and portfolio managers through fundamental company and industry research, financial modeling, earnings forecasting, valuation analysis, and monitoring of investment opportunities. Prepares research summaries, earnings updates, presentations, and financial statement analyses while tracking company announcements and market developments. Collaborates with investment teams, contributes to investment discussions, and develops buy-side research expertise through mentorship and hands-on experience.

Leads clinical monitoring across investigator sites for Jazz-sponsored trials, conducting and overseeing monitoring visits, resolving site performance and data-quality issues, and ensuring ICH-GCP and regulatory compliance. Mentors CRAs, oversees CRO partners, reviews monitoring documentation, supports site startup and recruitment, maintains TMF inspection readiness, interprets risk-based monitoring analytics, and contributes to monitoring plans, audits, inspections, and vendor performance oversight.

Conducts stem cell and molecular biology research studying gene regulation during cardiac differentiation. Responsibilities include culturing and differentiating iPSCs into cardiomyocytes, performing flow cytometry, PCR, RT-qPCR, western blotting, and sequencing-based experiments, analyzing data, maintaining records, and supporting laboratory inventory and ordering. The role requires an associate degree and relevant experience, with preferred training in biological sciences, cell culture, sequencing, CRISPR, programming, and research software.

Leads operational planning, monitoring, and execution of oncology clinical trials. Manages vendors and regional sites, mentors junior CRAs, supports patient recruitment, verifies trial data, maintains essential documentation, assists with IRB submissions, and ensures compliance with GCP, ICH guidelines, protocols, and applicable regulations.