Top Research Associate Jobs

Research, validate, and maintain investor and firm data for private markets using public sources, proprietary outreach, and AI-enabled tools. Build relationships with institutional investors, perform QA and data governance, resolve data incidents, support cross-functional projects, and contribute to process improvements and team training to ensure high data quality and operational excellence.

Conduct fundamental equity research for life science tools and diagnostics: analyze financial statements and market data, build financial models, author research with senior analyst, attend industry events, cultivate company relationships, and communicate findings internally and externally while complying with FINRA and firm policies.

Support sell-side credit coverage by monitoring issuers and sectors, analyzing earnings and filings, building and maintaining financial models, performing valuation and relative-value analysis, and producing concise client-ready research while collaborating with senior analysts.

Design, prototype, and deploy AI-powered workflows, agentic systems, and copilots for investment research. Translate business needs into technical specs, productionize prototypes using modern AI tooling (LLMs, RAG, vector DBs, orchestration), evaluate vendors and model risks, drive adoption, and measure impact across BII's research, content, and asset-allocation processes.

Design and execute prospective IRB-approved clinical studies, manage consent and patient enrollment, build cross-functional research infrastructure, pull and QC clinical datasets, create dashboards to monitor study health, and draft white papers, abstracts, and manuscripts for publication.

Verify and maintain social service program listings, research and add new resources, respond to user tickets, use internal curation tools, and collaborate with the team to ensure data accuracy and platform support.

Conduct sector-focused leveraged finance research across high yield, leveraged loans, and private credit. Produce high-conviction investment recommendations, monitor market developments, perform due diligence with external parties, evaluate risk/return in primary and secondary markets, leverage LLM/AI tools to accelerate research, and clearly communicate recommendations to portfolio managers and investment committees while collaborating with traders and analysts.

Sell and expand Morningstar Research Data Products to institutional clients (asset managers, hedge funds, banks). Own revenue targets, lead consultative conversations on data usage and licensing, deliver product demos, manage pipeline and forecasts in CRM, and collaborate with Product, Legal, and Customer Success. Role requires ~30% travel and is based in Chicago, New York, or London.

The Associate Director will lead research strategy, manage teams, create collateral, and deliver insights for Beauty, Style, & Entertainment verticals.

Senior scientific leader driving obesity discovery research: set strategy, prioritize and validate targets, design and oversee in vivo/ex vivo/in vitro studies, translate mechanistic insights to portfolio decisions, lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams, build external collaborations, and represent programs to leadership and the scientific community while ensuring regulatory and ethical standards.

Conduct market and desk research, design custom analyses using Excel/Access/Confirmit/ZS tools, synthesize insights into presentations, manage project plans and client communications, mentor associates, and support problem-solving and capability development.

Develop and implement scalable risk-management, lifecycle and pricing models for equity exotic derivatives using C++/Python and machine learning. Support trading by analyzing model behavior, quantifying risks, performing scenario analysis, documenting models, and driving payoff/product innovation.

Execute and troubleshoot laboratory experiments to advance reagent and assay development; analyze and report data using spreadsheets and graphing software; maintain lab supplies, inventories, and equipment; present findings to peers and supervisors; may monitor lab infrastructure. Works primarily with immunoassay and antibody-based assays and BSL-2 materials.

Hands-on scientist responsible for formulation and drug product process development for mRNA-LNP (and optionally AAV/protein) therapeutics. Design and execute experiments, optimize formulations and unit operations, perform stability testing, scale-up processes, support CDMOs and GMP activities, maintain lab documentation, and contribute to regulatory submissions in a cross-functional team.

Support design and execution of greenhouse, nursery, tissue culture, and lab research: plant production and maintenance, sample preparation, data collection and analysis (SAS/RStudio), visualization (SigmaPlot), report and manuscript writing, ordering and logistics, training undergraduate assistants, and presenting results at meetings. Requires moderate physical greenhouse work and lab equipment maintenance.

Manage 2-3 clinical trials with site start-up, on-site and remote monitoring, SDV, CRF review, safety reporting, investigational product and trial material management, study closeout, site training, and supervision/mentoring of junior CRAs. Support submissions, CRF design, and quality control for oncology and complex trials.

Undergraduate research associates will conduct independent research on national security topics aligned with CGSR priorities, contribute to literature reviews and reports, attend seminars, present findings, and prepare a final technical report under CGSR staff supervision. Work follows LLNL safety, security, and business policies.

Short-term (3–4 month) research associate role for graduate students or recent graduates to conduct independent and collaborative research on global security topics (deterrence, arms control, nonproliferation, emerging technologies, cyber, space, biosecurity, energy). Responsibilities include literature reviews, data analysis, workshop support, presenting results, and producing a final technical report while complying with LLNL security and ES&H requirements.

Develop, optimize, and characterize NGS-based assays and automated workflows including extraction, library prep, target capture, and sequencing. Operate and maintain NGS instruments and automated liquid handlers, perform reagent QC, troubleshoot and improve processes, and transfer methods to Operations. Record results in electronic lab notebooks, author protocols and work instructions, and collaborate with scientists, automation engineers, Quality, and Regulatory to support scaled clinical lab implementation under cGLP.

Support a Senior Biotech Research Analyst by researching publicly traded biotech firms, collecting and interpreting company/industry data, building and maintaining financial models/databases, preparing research reports, meeting management teams, attending conferences, responding to client/internal requests, providing administrative support, and attaining required securities licenses.

Execute and design experiments for reagent and assay development, analyze data, prepare reports and presentations, maintain lab supplies and inventories, troubleshoot experiments, and support BSL-2 laboratory operations.

Execute laboratory experiments under close supervision to support reagent and assay development; analyze data, prepare reports/presentations, maintain lab supplies and inventories, follow SOPs and safety protocols, and participate in general lab maintenance and infrastructure monitoring.

Conduct advanced laboratory experiments with minimal supervision, develop and document test methods, analyze and summarize data for grants/publications, provide technical oversight to junior staff, maintain regulatory and safety documentation, and support lab operations under PI/faculty direction.

Analyze and integrate bulk and single-cell high-throughput sequencing datasets (ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Hi-C) to identify epigenomic regulatory mechanisms in cancer. Develop computational and statistical approaches, collaborate with experimental scientists and clinicians, contribute to grants and publications, maintain quality and regulatory documentation, and support team projects and mentoring.

Operate, maintain, and troubleshoot flow cytometers and cell sorters; train users; develop and implement methodologies; perform data analysis and QC; maintain lab records, inventory, and billing support for a core research facility.