Remote Social Science Research Assistant — AI Benchmarking

Cephas Consultancy Services Private Limited; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Cephas Consultancy Services Private Limited seeks Social Science Research Assistants to join a remote, contract-based project benchmarking frontier AI capabilities. You will design authentic evaluation tasks and produce research artifacts for real-world scenarios.

Contribute to survey design, qualitative coding, literature reviews, and statistical outputs using SPSS, R, or Stata. Strong English writing and rigorous methods are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or higher in a social science discipline.
• Experience in survey instrument design, qualitative coding, literature reviews, and statistical software.

Responsibilities

• Design and author complex evaluation tasks reflecting real-world research scenarios.
• Source, synthesize, and create realistic research artifacts (surveys, coded data sets, statistics).
• Define methodological approaches with clear interpretations aligned to social science best practices.
• Write 35+ item grading rubrics assessing rigor, fidelity, and interpretation.
• Collaborate asynchronously with project leads to refine tasks and data.

Skills

Methodological rigour

Source synthesis

Rubric fidelity

Research mastery

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in social science (sociology/economics/psychology/political science)

Tools

SPSS

R

Stata

Job description

Cephas Consultancy Services Private Limited seeks Social Science Research Assistants to join a remote, contract-based project benchmarking frontier AI capabilities. You will design authentic evaluation tasks and produce research artifacts for real-world scenarios.

Contribute to survey design, qualitative coding, literature reviews, and statistical outputs using SPSS, R, or Stata. Strong English writing and rigorous methods are essential for this role.