People Research Scientist

Job summary

Responsibilities

We're looking for a People Research Scientist to join our People Science and Workforce Intelligence team. You'll be the research lead for the wider People organization bringing scientific rigor to the questions that matter most as Crusoe scales: how well do we hire, what makes people stay, grow…

• Own research design and scientific inquiry
• Form and test hypotheses about people programs, employee behavior and workforce outcomes using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental methods.
• Run longitudinal studies to learn what creates long-term success, engagement, and retention as we scale.
• Synthesize external research and industry evidence on people interventions to find best practices and gaps.
• Partner cross-functionally to design and run systematic studies on employee experience, manager effectiveness and organizational health across corporate, engineering and field…

What they're looking for

• A Master's or PhD in I/O Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Behavioral Science or a related research field.
• Intellectual humility that balances rigor with pragmatism.
• Experience with applied experimental design, hypothesis testing, longitudinal methods and causal inference.
• Experience with survey design, psychometric methods and employee listening programs.
• The ability to work with structured and unstructured data via SQL, Python or R

Tech stack

• SQL
• Python
• BigQuery
• Snowflake