
Research Associate
Surgo Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New Delhi • India
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About the role
- Own the end-to-end quality of Surgo’s survey data, from raw inputs to analysis-ready datasets.
- Ensure preprocessing, coding, and transformations are accurate, consistent, and reproducible.
- Ensure metadata is complete, accurate, and trusted by downstream users.
- Identify and resolve data quality issues before they impact analyses or products.
- Establish scalable data quality checks and standards as our survey footprint grows.
- Identify ways to streamline processing, including experimenting with AI tools.
- Enable faster, more confident research by making data quality a solved problem.
Requirements
- Masters degree or higher in a relevant domain (e.g. psychology, economics, social science, healthcare, epidemiology).
- Understand the fundamentals of survey design and survey statistics.
- Experience working with survey data, cleaning messy data sets, creating variables, and handling metadata.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a strong instinct for data quality issues.
- Comfortable working with complex, imperfect, real-world datasets.
- Basic analytical skills (Python preferred)
- Able to balance speed and rigor in a fast-moving environment - we are a startup so we need you to be flexible and fast.
- Strong command of English to enable good internal communication and metadata accuracy
- Clear and proactive communicator who documents decisions and flags risks early.
Benefits
- Fantastic, fun and collaborative colleagues; opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare
- Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth
- Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission
- Competitive compensation and health benefits
- Professional Development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
data qualitydata preprocessingdata transformationsurvey designsurvey statisticsdata cleaningmetadata handlinganalytical skillsPython
Soft Skills
attention to detaildata quality instinctflexibilitycommunicationproactive documentation
Certifications
Masters degree