Research Assistant
MIT FutureTech is an interdisciplinary MIT research group studying technical and economic progress in computing and AI.
About MIT FutureTech
Based at MIT CSAIL, FutureTech researches how advances in computing and AI affect scientific progress, productivity, and economic prosperity. Its work combines computer science, economics, and management, and includes public AI-risk data resources and research outputs.
Skills
About the Role
You will support research projects through data preparation, analysis, visualization, and dataset development. You will produce reproducible files and scripts for publication, conduct literature reviews, help prepare reports and manuscripts, provide technical and administrative project support, and supervise undergraduate research assistants.
Requirements
- Hold a bachelor's or master's degree in economics, computer science, or a related field.
- Have taken both computer science and economics courses.
- Demonstrate experience with large unstructured data.
- Understand machine-learning techniques for data analysis.
- Understand LLM coding, prompt design, and batch processing.
- Understand econometrics and the basics of economic modeling.
- Have research assistant experience.
- Know Python or R.
Responsibilities
- Clean, analyze, and visualize data.
- Write or finalize replicable data files and scripts for publication.
- Develop, design, and maintain research datasets.
- Provide technical and administrative support for research projects.
- Conduct literature reviews.
- Assist with reports, manuscripts, and other documents.
- Supervise undergraduate research assistants.
- Perform other related work as needed.
Hiring Process
Selected candidates will first be interviewed via Zoom.