Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is looking to hire a full-time pre-doctoral research fellow (Senior Research Specialist) to collaborate on research projects related to the political economy of development, providing preparation for graduate school or a data science career.
Requirements
- Knowledge of Python and an additional language such as R or Stata is essential.
- Excellent research, writing, and programming skills.
- Large datasets comprising up to many millions of data points are compiled, cleaned, processed, analyzed and interpreted using Python and R.
- Many tasks are performed using Princeton’s high performance cluster computers.
- collect, compile and manipulate large data sets using state of the art software (Stata, R, and Python)
- perform literature reviews of the most recent research in the political economy of development.
Responsibilities
- conducting advanced econometric analysis and preparing results tables
- managing large data sets
- handling spatial data
- applying machine learning algorithms
- conducting computationally intensive statistical analyses
- summarizing research findings
- editing research papers
Other
- Minimum BA/BS degree in Economics, Mathematics, Political Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related discipline.
- This position is ideal for seniors graduating by Summer 2025 or final year master’s students with a strong interest in pursuing a Ph.D. or pursuing a data science career after acquiring one or two years of research experience.
- 1-year term position.
- Standard Weekly Hours 36.25
- Eligible for Overtime No
