Part-Time Research Assistant

American University • Washington, DC

3d • $20 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

The Research Assistant will support ongoing research in responsible AI, multimodal machine learning, and identity representation, contributing to funded projects supported by IDFRA. The role ensures continuity of research outputs following graduation and supports book preparation, experimentation, and implementation.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent.
• 1 - 3 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and test machine learning models (Python-based).
• Support multimodal embedding and representation learning pipelines.
• Clean, preprocess, and manage datasets.
• Implement feature extraction and evaluation pipelines.
• Contribute to manuscripts, reports, and technical documentation.
• Assist in literature reviews and synthesis.
• Perform benchmarking and validation experiments.
• Analyze robustness, bias, and interpretability.
• Participate in weekly research meetings.
• Coordinate with collaborators across departments.
• Maintain reproducible workflows (Git, environments, etc.).
• Assist with experiment tracking and deployment.

Benefits

• Unique benefit options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level