3 research assistant i jobs found

Job Summary: The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) is a university-wide initiative dedicated to interdisciplinary research focused primarily on the quantitative social science of population change, socioeconomic development, and public health. Our goal is to produce population-based evidence that will better inform policies needed to create healthy and resilient societies. The HCPDS is seeking a full-time, experienced Research Assistant (RA) to support our field-based activities for its NIH-funded study, Health and Aging in Africa: Longitudinal Studies in South Africa (HAALSA). HAALSA began as a community-based longitudinal cohort study nested within the heath and socio-demographic surveillance system (HDSS) in Agincourt, South Africa. The goal of this research project is to explore aging in South Africa, with focal areas in cognitive health, cardiometabolic disease, HIV and HIV treatment, public policies, social determinants of health, and health...

Job Summary: The Director of Learning Experience and Design serves as a key senior member of the Professional Education (PPE) team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Director joins the Portfolio Director (PD) team and reports to the Senior Portfolio Director. In this critical leadership role, the Director manages the Learning Experience and Design (LXD) team of learning designers and learning technologists to drive the strategic development and continuous improvement of high-quality, learner-centered programs and extensions, focusing primarily on online, hybrid, and on-demand. The Director collaborates closely with the other Portfolio Directors, faculty, practitioners, and external partners to ensure the design and implementation of innovative learning experiences that align with HGSE’s mission and advance its positive impact on the education sector. The Director oversees the program design process—including instructional design and course development—and...

Design, plan, and implement software and data services that support and enrich research productivity and reliability.  Develop software and data services with researchers to ensure that modern standards of reproducible research are kept. Job-Specific Responsibilities: The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is hiring a Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE) to support a portfolio of faculty-led research projects under the HDSI–AWS Impact Computing Alliance. This role is designed for an engineer who thrives in research settings and enjoys translating scientific goals into robust, efficient, and reproducible AI/ML systems. Rather than being tied to a single lab, the RSE will provide shared, cross-project engineering support—helping multiple teams accelerate discovery by building and optimizing machine learning infrastructure, improving performance on modern hardware (including AI accelerators), and enabling scalable execution in AWS and HPC environments. Projects may span...