Research Scientist

• Lead complex patient-centered outcomes research programs from study design through final delivery
• Serve as project lead for multidisciplinary teams, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest scientific standards
• Provide strategic oversight of study design, methodology, regulatory engagement, and evidence generation plans
• Manage project risks, client expectations, resource allocation, and team performance
• Serve as a trusted scientific advisor to clients and internal stakeholders
• Personally contribute to the design, execution, analysis, interpretation, and reporting of qualitative and mixed-methods research studies
• Design and lead qualitative research conducted with patients, caregivers, patient advocates, and clinical key opinion leaders, including both stand-alone and clinical trial-based studies
• Lead the development, adaptation, and evaluation of clinical outcome assessments (COAs), including patient-reported outcomes (PROs), observer-reported outcomes (ObsROs), clinician-reported outcomes (ClinROs), and related measures
• Review and critically appraise published literature, COA development programs, and psychometric evidence
• Develop patient-centered evidence strategies to support regulatory, access & reimbursement, and healthcare decision-making needs
• Contribute directly to study reports, client presentations, evidence dossiers, briefing books, and negotiations with key decision makers to support patient-centered value messaging for medicines
• Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective clients
• Lead scientific discussions with pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors regarding patient-focused drug development strategies
• Support business development efforts through proposal development, client meetings, capability presentations, and identification of growth opportunities
• Lead and contribute to scientific publications, conference abstracts, posters, presentations, and manuscripts
• Represent RTI-HS at scientific meetings, industry conferences, and client engagements
• Provide day-to-day leadership, mentorship, and coaching to junior and mid-level researchers.
• Foster technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and professional development across project teams

Senior Researcher – Patient Centered Outcomes Assessment

• Apply academic and practical knowledge to innovative and challenging environmental projects.
• Conduct identification of jurisdictional wetlands, classification and delineation of wetlands and streams, and determining mitigation requirements to support environmental permitting of infrastructure projects.
• Prepare Clean Water Act Sections 10, 404, and 401 permit applications, as well as other coastal area permits from state regulatory agencies.
• Conduct biological and ecological resource studies including wildlife habitat assessments and wetland mitigation monitoring.
• Task and project management, including conducting environmental inspections for compliance with permits.

Senior or Principal Natural Resources Scientist

• Set technical direction for core replenishment R&D — define the modeling roadmap across demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and decision-making policy, and align it with product and business strategy.
• Model complex problems such as inventory decay, promotions, price elasticity, and inventory uncertainty, and implement solutions to multi-stage and multi-echelon inventory optimization problems.
• Drive fundamental changes to our core system from research through production, writing rigorously tested and scalable code.
• Lead research and development for new product and business challenges.
• Raise the technical bar across the Intelligence team: mentor scientists and engineers, set standards for experimental rigor, and review designs and results.
• Push the boundaries of AI capabilities in both products and scientist workflows.

Staff Applied Scientist – Distribution Center

• Obtains data in support of research-oriented activities by conducting physical, chemical, or biological tests, experiments, determinations, and observations
• Designs, develops, and constructs specialized instruments, equipment and apparatus as required for performance of research activities
• Assists in the development of new research procedures and techniques
• Operates various electronic devices in the collection, tabulation, and calculation of data
• Assists in training new personnel, conducts performance reviews on assigned lab employees, and creates work schedules
• Assists with planning and presenting classroom instructions and lectures
• Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein

Research Assistant, Psychiatry

• Set technical direction for core replenishment R&amp;D.
• Model complex problems such as inventory decay, promotions, price elasticity, and inventory uncertainty.
• Drive fundamental changes to our core system from research through production.
• Lead research and development for new product and business challenges.
• Mentor scientists and engineers, set standards for experimental rigor.

Staff Applied Scientist

• Partner closely with a national intermediary to design and operationalize evaluation and learning frameworks aligned with their place-based partners’ strategy, capacity, and context.
• Lead the identification of metrics, data points, data sources, and data collection processes that balance rigor with feasibility.
• Develop evaluation work plans, including timelines and sequencing for data collection, data entry, analysis, reporting, and learning cycles.
• Translate evaluation needs into clear guidance for data systems, working with partner staff and technical administrators as needed.
• Support early execution of evaluation and learning activities, particularly during start‑up phases, while partners build internal capacity.
• Develop tools, templates, and protocols that enable partners to sustain evaluation and learning processes over time.
• Serve as a thought partner to practitioner staff—connecting data, evidence, and learning to real‑world decision‑making.
• Produce high‑quality deliverables such as evaluation frameworks and playbooks, data collection tools and protocols, reporting templates, learning briefs, and synthesis memos.

Senior Researcher, Place-Based Evaluation & Learning

• Manage day-to-day project operations in roles such as principal investigator, project director, or task lead.
• Lead collaborative project teams by developing timelines, coordinating staff assignments, and ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard.
• Identify research problems and design studies to address key questions in applied research contexts.
• Apply subject-matter expertise to design and implement relevant, responsive, and impactful research projects.
• Develop study designs with aligned research questions, methodologies, and analytic plans.
• Lead and contribute to research proposals for federal, state, foundation, and other clients.
• Devise and implement innovative solutions to practical challenges in applied research.
• Lead data collection and analysis efforts.
• Oversee the design and planning of qualitative and/or quantitative data collection tools, such as interview protocols, focus group guides, and surveys.
• Supervise field-based data collection activities, including interviews, observations, focus groups, and document reviews.
• Conduct or oversee data analysis using appropriate tools and techniques for various data types.
• Communicate study progress and findings clearly and effectively.
• Prepare reports, briefs, visualizations, and other materials that interpret and present research findings for clients and stakeholders.
• Represent the organization professionally in all client interactions.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Foster and maintain positive, collaborative working relationships.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships with professionalism and awareness of the broader policy and practice landscape.
• Contribute thoughtfully and creatively to project teams.

Senior Researcher, Employment and Economic Opportunity – Part-Time

• Lead the design and execution of rigorous applied research or evidence-driven technical assistance projects and support project leadership across work of increased scope and complexity.
• Assume primary responsibility for writing reports and presentations that describe and interpret evidence for practitioners and policymakers.
• Design and apply appropriate qualitative and/or quantitative methods to collect, manage, analyze, and interpret data, maintaining AIR’s quality standards.
• Translate complex findings into clear, actionable insights and recommendations for client reports, technical memos, and presentations.
• Manage projects or major workstreams of increased scope and complexity, including planning timelines, overseeing deliverables, and managing project-level client relationships.
• Engage with stakeholders and partners through meetings, briefings, and dissemination activities.
• Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive work environment by providing guidance and feedback to team members and supporting high-quality project outcomes.

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