People Research Scientist
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
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About Crusoe, Inc.
Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will be the research lead for the People organization, bringing scientific rigor to questions about hiring, retention and program impact. You will design experimental and quasi-experimental studies, evaluate people programs, validate selection methods, run survey research with psychometric methods, and present clear visualizations and recommendations to executives.
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in I/O Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Science or related field
- Experience with applied experimental design, hypothesis testing, longitudinal methods and causal inference
- Experience with survey design, psychometric methods and employee listening programs
- Ability to work with data via SQL, Python or R
- Experience in statistical analysis
- Excellent communication and data storytelling skills
Responsibilities
- Form and test hypotheses about people programs and workforce outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental methods
- Run longitudinal studies on success, engagement and retention
- Synthesize external research on people interventions
- Design studies on employee experience, manager effectiveness and organizational health
- Apply research ethics and data privacy practices
- Build evaluation plans into people programs and estimate impact
- Define success measures tied to business outcomes
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to design and validate structured interviews
- Run validation studies linking hiring signals to performance and retention
- Monitor adverse impact and fairness across hiring stages
- Evaluate AI-assisted hiring tools
- Act as POC for assessment vendors
- Scale engagement, pulse and lifecycle surveys
- Validate survey instruments with psychometric methods
- Build visualizations and present recommendations to executives
- Build self-service analytics for HR business partners
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
