Measurement Scientist / Psychometrician

Hseg; Wien; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Blucentia, a Vienna-based company building HSEG, is looking for a Measurement Scientist / Psychometrician. You’ll develop and validate organizational measurement approaches, evaluate construct validity, and investigate longitudinal and multilingual measurement across diverse populations.

You’ll join a mission to make hidden human and organizational risk measurable, work closely with statistics, technical, and product colleagues, with hybrid Vienna-based work.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in psychometrics, quantitative psychology, educational or organizational measurement.
• Strong quantitative measurement skills and psychometric validation.
• Experience with advanced psychometric methods, adaptive/longitudinal measurement, multilingual instrument validation; R/Python skills valued.

Responsibilities

• develop and validate organizational measurement approaches
• evaluate construct validity and measurement quality
• investigate longitudinal and evolving measurement approaches
• assess measurement comparability across populations and over time
• support multilingual measurement validation
• design and conduct validation studies
• analyze measurement performance using real-world pilot data
• establish scientifically defensible limitations and interpretation boundaries
• work closely with statistical, technical and product colleagues
• translate research findings into a measurement system for real organizations

Skills

Quantitative measurement

Psychometric validation

Multilingual validation

R

Python

Education

MSc

PhD in psychometrics / related field

Quantitative organizational psychology

Educational measurement

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Vienna, Austria · Hybrid · Full-time

Have you ever seen a train wreck coming when everyone else thought things looked fine… and then gone looking for the data to find out if you were right?

We’re looking for someone who’s a little bit like a psychic drenched in actual numbers.

You notice patterns. You question what everyone else accepts. And then you want the data to tell you whether your instincts actually hold up.

Help us measure what organizations usually discover too late.

Organizations have become extraordinarily good at measuring outcomes.
Turnover. Absenteeism. Incidents. Complaints. Performance. Litigation.

But the human conditions developing before those outcomes can be much harder to measure.

The patterns in how people experience, behave and interact inside an organization can begin changing long before those changes become visible in conventional organizational metrics.

That’s why Blucentia is developing HSEG, a new approach to measuring human and organizational risk.

We’re looking for a

Measurement Scientist / Psychometrician

The problem you’ll work on

How do you measure complex organizational conditions reliably?
How do you know whether a measurement means what you think it means?
Can it remain meaningful across different organizations, populations, languages and points in time?
And when should a measurement system acknowledge that the available evidence simply isn’t strong enough?
You’ll help us answer those questions.

What you’ll do

• develop and validate organizational measurement approaches
• evaluate construct validity and measurement quality
• investigate longitudinal and evolving measurement approaches
• assess measurement comparability across populations and over time
• support multilingual measurement validation
• design and conduct validation studies
• analyze measurement performance using real-world pilot data
• establish scientifically defensible limitations and interpretation boundaries
• work closely with statistical, technical and product colleagues
• help translate research findings into a measurement system that can operate in real organizations

What we’re looking for

You have a strong MSc or PhD in an area such as:

• psychometrics
• quantitative psychology
• psychological or educational measurement
• quantitative organizational psychology
• or a closely related discipline

You’ll need strong quantitative measurement skills and experience with psychometric validation.

Experience with advanced psychometric methods, adaptive measurement, longitudinal measurement or multilingual instrument validation would be particularly valuable.

Strong R and/or Python skills are preferred.

What you’ll be joining

Our mission is to make hidden human and organizational risk measurable, so problems can be identified, understood and addressed before they elevate.

Blucentia is an early-stage technology company based in Vienna, building the scientific and technical foundations behind HSEG.

You’ll be joining while the methodology and technology are still being researched, tested and validated, meaning you’ll have genuine influence over what they become.

Compensation & start

From €60,000 gross/year, with higher compensation depending on experience and qualifications.

Location: Vienna, Austria / hybrid

Employment: Full-time

We are currently building the scientific team for our next research phase. Hiring for this position is subject to completion of our current funding process, with the start date to be agreed accordingly.