Remote Jobs for Reseachers, Research Engineers, Research Scientists, & Research Analysts

Leads Blackbaud Institute research and insights programs from strategy through execution. Designs primary research, manages vendors and data collection, analyzes proprietary and external datasets, and translates findings into reports, thought leadership, presentations, and executive-ready narratives. Partners with marketing, product, communications, customer success, and leadership teams while representing the organization through conferences, webinars, media opportunities, and industry events. Uses emerging AI and content technologies to improve research workflows and content reuse.

Senior Clinical Research Associate responsible for monitoring oncology clinical trials and observational studies, ensuring protocol compliance, site performance, data integrity, and regulatory adherence. Performs remote and on-site monitoring, manages site documentation and investigational product reconciliation, resolves eCRF issues, maintains CTMS records, and follows up on site actions. Mentors junior CRAs, supports training and project management activities, and travels up to 80% throughout North America.

Leads advanced quantitative market research engagements, including segmentations and trackers, from project design through delivery. Manages client relationships, research strategy, questionnaires, deliverables, presentations, workshops, timelines, and project teams. Partners with statisticians, methodology experts, and account teams to produce actionable insights, integrate panel data, and support strategic client decisions. Coaches team members, oversees multiple complex projects, and serves as a senior trusted advisor to CPG and retail clients.

Provide direct nursing care and coordinate daily activities for neurology/Alzheimer clinical trials, ensure GCP and regulatory compliance, enroll and consent patients, collect/process specimens, document in CTMS, liaise with investigators/sponsors, and support quality, safety, and study financial processes.

Leads multiple concurrent quantum computing R&D programs, translating research roadmaps into measurable execution plans and scalable technologies. Partners across applied research, engineering, product teams, and external organizations to prioritize work, manage risks, solve technical challenges, and advance quantum technologies toward fault-tolerant computing. Requires strong technical understanding of quantum hardware and software, exceptional communication, and extensive experience managing complex cross-functional technology initiatives.

Manages field implementation and research activities for an early childhood development project in California. Builds partnerships with childcare providers, supports participant recruitment and consent, provides training and technical assistance, conducts child assessments, coordinates data collection and technology logistics, manages incentives and records, and supports algorithm validation. The role requires extensive site visits, relationship management, research compliance, and occasional travel to other states.

Leads onboarding, training, competency development, and operational readiness for clinical research personnel across START’s oncology site network. Develops standardized curricula, delivers virtual and in-person instruction, coaches employees, evaluates competency, coordinates shadowing, and supports new site launches. Partners with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with SOPs, GCP, regulatory requirements, and operational standards while tracking readiness, training effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

Conduct market sizing across financial segments, analyze competitors and distribution partners, research buyer personas, and assess technical feasibility. Interview fund CFOs, GPs, auditors, and administrators to evaluate pain points, pricing, willingness to pay, and sales cycles. Synthesize research into a scored market ranking and present a strategic recommendation to the executive team.

Research data strategies for large language model development, including designing data slices to identify model failure modes, modeling annotator behavior, and optimizing instruction clarity and reward-signal reliability. Develop metrics and evaluation frameworks to assess dataset quality, diversity, alignment impact, and downstream model performance. Collaborate with AI research teams and test data-centric methodologies in production environments.

Design and train LLMs and agentic systems for cybersecurity using RLHF/RLAIF and supervised fine-tuning. Build agent architectures, tooling, retrieval/memory, and evaluation pipelines with rigorous statistical benchmarking. Optimize prompts and inference, collaborate with engineers to productionize prototypes, and drive research on agent planning, safety, and reliability.

The Research Engineer will collaborate with scientists to develop and validate machine learning models for speech technologies, manage scalable training systems, and design tools for accessibility to non-technical users.

Design, develop, and deploy software solutions for automated trading systems while collaborating with researchers on technology priorities.

Conduct site selection, initiation, monitoring, and close-out visits for clinical trials. Ensure compliance with ICH-GCP and regulations, maintain CTMS and eTMF documentation, monitor patient safety and drug accountability, support recruitment and retention, resolve data queries, track site progress and payments, and escalate risks while collaborating with clinical teams.

Lead and scale CRIO's Sponsor Operations for enterprise sponsor programs, ensuring consistent delivery, operational standards, cross-functional alignment, and client satisfaction. Oversee portfolios, define KPIs, optimize processes and tooling, manage escalations, and develop a high-performing team while partnering with Product, Engineering, and Data to drive platform and reporting improvements.

Oversees clinical trial site quality, compliance, data integrity, monitoring, and performance across all trial phases. Conducts qualification, initiation, routine monitoring, and close-out visits; evaluates risks, supports corrective actions, manages study drug oversight, prepares reports, and collaborates with sites, vendors, investigators, and internal teams. The role requires proficiency with clinical systems, ICH GCP, regulatory requirements, risk-based monitoring, and frequent travel across the Ohio region.

Research Scientist responsible for RL-based post-training of large-scale video generation models. The role includes preference optimization, online RL, video reward model development, human and automated evaluation, reward-hacking safeguards, and secondary distillation of aligned models. Candidates need experience with generative modeling or post-training, reinforcement learning, diffusion or flow-matching models, PyTorch, and distributed training. Preferred experience includes visual-generation reward models, VLM-based judging, preference data collection, and video-specific temporal and physics failure modes.

Conduct open-ended AI research focused on end-to-end training workflows using LanceDB. Design replicable experiments and benchmarks, demonstrate workflows across AI domains, develop content, publish research and models, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires deep learning expertise, experience training state-of-the-art models, open-source software development, strong prioritization, product awareness, and staying current with AI research.

Build and scale production AI systems for Prophetic’s real estate intelligence platform. Responsibilities include developing agentic systems, data pipelines, inference workflows, evaluation benchmarks, geospatial processing, and machine learning applications across hundreds of millions of records. The role requires shipping reliable Python services, optimizing throughput and cost, integrating research into products, and collaborating with engineering and product teams.

Conduct original research on reliable agentic AI, developing methods for simulation, evaluation, optimization, regression control, and continuous learning. Analyze agent failures, traces, and human feedback; create experiments and prototypes; and translate research into production-facing systems. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, contribute to technical strategy, and provide rigorous experimental evidence. The role requires strong research depth, publication or open-source contributions, hands-on Python development, and expertise in LLM agents or agentic systems.

Participate in an in-home study by installing two video-only devices for 7–10 days, share at least 120 hours of footage per device, review and delete clips on a provided laptop, and provide consent for yourself and other adult household members. Devices are delivered and picked up at your home; must live in the Boston area and be comfortable using a computer and communicating in English.

The role involves researching and developing large language models (LLMs) with a focus on transformer architecture, data curation, distributed training, and optimization. Responsibilities include conducting experiments, collaborating with teams, and staying updated on deep learning advancements.

Monitor clinical studies at investigative sites or remotely, ensuring protocol, ICH-GCP, SOP, and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities include site monitoring visits, source data verification, medical record and adverse event review, site staff support, monitoring report authoring, trial material development, SOP contributions, and eTMF documentation. The role requires CRA experience, preferably in oncology, hematology, or cell and gene therapy, plus proficiency with clinical trial systems and regulatory requirements.

Lead foundational and strategic mixed-methods UX research to shape product vision, strategy, and innovation. Conduct qualitative and quantitative studies, including interviews, ethnography, surveys, log analysis, segmentation, and concept testing. Translate ambiguous questions into actionable frameworks, present insights to executives, mentor designers and product partners, and establish scalable research practices across the organization.

Leads quantitative and qualitative research, evaluation, and data analysis initiatives supporting California Community College student success, equity, and policy goals. Responsibilities include analyzing complex datasets with Stata, SQL, R, or Atlas.ti; managing projects through planning, implementation, and reporting; producing research reports, policy briefs, presentations, dashboards, and visualizations; translating findings into recommendations; advising stakeholders; and representing the organization at meetings and conferences.

Supports higher education student success and equity initiatives through project planning, policy research, data analysis, stakeholder engagement, and development of policy briefs, reports, presentations, and communications. Conducts qualitative and quantitative research, synthesizes findings, manages deliverables and competing deadlines, and collaborates with education, government, nonprofit, and system partners. Monitors policy developments and participates in relevant meetings and hearings. The position is fully remote within California with some travel.