About the role

  • Research Associate at Surgo Health ensuring the quality of large-scale survey data for healthcare analytics. Join a team committed to advancing healthcare insights through data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end quality of Surgo’s 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.

Requirements

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Fantastic, fun and collaborative colleagues; 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
  • Competitive compensation and health benefits
  • Professional Development opportunities

Job title

Research Associate

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

$25,000 - $30,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

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