Research Associate

About: Our partner organization is a human-centric AI company that delivers the deepest understanding of human behaviour to power better health for all. It is a Public Benefit Corporation building the worlds most comprehensive and insightful AI-powered socio-behavioral data platform. They uncover the unseen drivers of health - peoples beliefs, barriers, and behaviours - and transform that intelligence into scalable products that enable healthcare organizations to drive impact, reduce costs, and advance equity. Role and Responsibilites: Own the end-to-end quality of survey data, from raw inputs to analysis-ready datasets. Ensure preprocessing, coding, and transformations are accurate, consistent, and reproducible. Ensure metadata is complete, accurate, and trusted by downstream users. Identify and resolve data quality issues before they impact analyses or products. Establish scalable data quality checks and standards as our survey footprint grows. Identify ways to streamline processing, including experimenting with AI tools. Enable faster, more confident research by making data quality a solved problem. About you: Masters degree or higher in a relevant domain (e.g. psychology, economics, social science, healthcare, epidemiology). Understand the fundamentals of survey design and survey statistics. Experience working with survey data, cleaning messy data sets, creating variables, and handling metadata. Exceptional attention to detail and a strong instinct for data quality issues. Comfortable working with complex, imperfect, real-world datasets. Basic analytical skills (Python preferred) Able to balance speed and rigor in a fast-moving environment - we are a startup so we need you to be flexible and fast. Strong command of English to enable good internal communication and metadata accuracy Clear and proactive communicator who documents decisions and flags risks early. Location : India-based, ideally in Delhi NCR Benefits: Working with fantastic incredibly passionate and smart colleagues, and the opportunity to solve tough challenges in healthcare Ability to be entrepreneurial and tremendous opportunities for growth Public Benefit Corporation with an impact and equity mission Professional Development opportunities Hybrid environment Fantastic colleagues and opportunity to solve tough challenges in health