Researcher

• Develop compelling insights by synthesizing qualitative and quantitative findings for internal and external audiences
• Conduct qualitative visual analysis of multi-format creative content to identify themes, patterns, customer trends, content needs, and opportunities
• Mine consumer research databases, world news, pop culture, advertising, and fine art/photography sources for insights
• Create subject-area lightboxes in the proprietary content management system
• Collate relevant customer feedback
• Find and archive relevant tear sheets, swipes, and visual references
• Identify visual needs to support regional creative briefing strategy
• Collaborate with Creative Direction and Curation teams on contributor-created visuals
• Provide updates on cultural, social, and behavioral trends affecting visuals
• Prepare insight research presentations to engage, upskill, and activate the contributor community
• Assist with customer-facing presentations, marketing materials, and ad hoc requests
• Write articles positioning Getty Images as a creative thought leader
• Coordinate with Curation to create visual insight boards and promotional sets
• Support customer meetings by sharing visual insights and creative expertise to drive revenue
• Act as spokesperson for webinars, events, panel discussions, and media interviews as needed

Creative Insights Researcher

• Ship a benchmark every two to three weeks measuring a previously unmeasured frontier risk
• Collaborate with leading AI labs and universities on benchmarks and papers
• Pair with in-house researchers who own specific harm areas and direct freelancers
• Own the taxonomy, evaluation harness, quality bar, and release
• Ensure frontier labs can rerun the benchmark and reproduce the reported numbers
• Read evals, verify taxonomy alignment, and push researchers on quality
• Own the benchmark plan and calendar and keep researchers on schedule
• Direct two or three freelance subject matter experts as needed
• Meet roughly monthly with the CTO, pod, and research leads to set the quarterly release roadmap
• Tie the release plan to target accounts
• Monitor the AI safety and security ecosystem, read research, maintain lab contacts, and gather feedback
• Travel to conferences and speak with AI lab contacts weekly

Researcher, Evaluations and Benchmarks

• Design and develop SLMs for endpoint devices such as laptops
• Design and develop a model router using endpoint state
• Design rigorous evaluation methodologies for API-based coding agents, with and without access to external tools
• Build statistically sound benchmarks measuring cost, latency, accuracy, reliability, and developer productivity
• Develop techniques for optimizing agent context, retrieval, memory, and tool interactions while preserving correctness
• Design and analyze large-scale experimental campaigns using production APIs across multiple foundation models
• Build reusable research infrastructure, datasets, simulators, and evaluation frameworks for agentic systems
• Publish technical reports and contribute research findings influencing product direction and the broader AI community
• Collaborate with engineering teams to translate research into production-ready optimization systems
• Stay current with advances in LLMs, agent architectures, retrieval systems, and AI evaluation methodologies

LLM Researcher

• Assist with research, data analysis, technical reviews, report writing, and engagement-related activities
• Support the energy and climate planning consulting practice
• Conduct energy and economic analyses, procurement, and planning
• Provide regulatory and policy support
• Perform greenhouse gas accounting and management
• Support infrastructure climate risk and resilience work
• Assist clients with sustainability goal setting and performance management
• Perform quantitative analyses and synthesize research and data through statistical analyses, data visualization, and modeling
• Communicate and translate quantitative results into report or presentation narratives
• Use research and data to tell a story and provide salient information for client decision-making
• Collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams with diverse expertise

Energy and Climate Researcher

• Conduct one-on-one interviews
• Conduct small-group interviews
• Facilitate focus groups
• Conduct large-scale document analysis
• Write research memos
• Conduct virtual interviews using structured guides and produce high-quality video recordings
• Apply research protocols consistently, identify risks or deviations, and suggest adjustments
• Produce clear, well-organized interview summaries requiring minimal rework
• Synthesize interview data across participants to identify patterns, themes, and key insights
• Review large-scale document analysis to support triangulation
• Tag and organize qualitative data according to an established coding framework
• Submit research materials using established naming conventions and documentation standards
• Maintain rapport, neutrality, and professionalism with skeptical or challenging participants
• Support the CDI Culture Change Team and potentially other qualitative research efforts such as user experience or exploratory/discovery studies
• Use CDI’s established qualitative research procedures and protocols
• Report to the Director of Campus Culture Change

Researcher jobs in New York

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Energy and Climate Researcher

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