People Research Scientist

The role

You will be the research lead for the People organization, bringing scientific rigor to questions regarding hiring, retention, and program effectiveness. You will build frameworks and run systematic research to shape people decisions across tech, manufacturing, and field teams.

What you will do

• Own research design and scientific inquiry
• Form and test hypotheses about people programs and employee behavior
• Run longitudinal studies on success, engagement, and retention
• Synthesize external research on people interventions
• Partner cross-functionally to design studies on employee experience and organizational health
• Apply research ethics and data privacy practices
• Build evaluation plans for people programs like onboarding and compensation
• Estimate program impact using quasi-experimental methods
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to design and validate structured interviews
• Monitor adverse impact and fairness across hiring stages

Required qualifications

• Master's or PhD in I/O Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Science or a related research field
• Experience with applied experimental design, hypothesis testing, longitudinal methods and causal inference
• Experience with survey design, psychometric methods and employee listening programs
• Ability to work with structured and unstructured data via SQL, Python or R
• Experience in statistical analysis
• Comfort working with cross-functional partners in a wide range of business functions
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders with data visualization and storytelling skills

Nice to have

• At least 5 years in research, analytics or related quantitative work
• A background in people analytics specifically
• Selection and assessment experience, including validation studies, adverse impact analysis, and familiarity with the Uniform Guidelines and SIOP Principles
• Experience evaluating HR or L&D programs with quasi-experimental designs
• Deep knowledge of manager effectiveness research and organizational science
• Experience studying frontline, field, skilled-trades or operations workforces
• Experience at a high-growth technology, AI/ML, energy or infrastructure company
• Familiarity with network analysis, NLP for open-text feedback, or advanced statistical methods
• Experience with BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar tools
• Experience with Workday, Rippling, Ashby, Lattice or TeamOhana

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.