Temporary Technical Support - Psychology

Vanderbilt University • Nashville, TN

5d • Onsite

About The Position

This role involves supporting psychology research, specifically in running in-person experimental sessions, designing and piloting behavioral experiments, training and evaluating computational models, and organizing lab meetings. The position requires a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field and offers preferred experience in clinical study recruitment, REDCap, and machine learning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, neuroscience or related field

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with clinical study recruitment
• Experience with REDCap
• Experience with machine learning

Responsibilities

• Run in-person experimental sessions, including recruitment, setting up equipment, and administering questionnaires
• Design and pilot behavioral experiments, and write and maintain experiment scripts in Python
• Train and evaluate computational models on curated datasets, and write analysis scripts to compare model representations and learning curves against human behavioral data
• Organize lab meetings and project check-ins, prepare agendas, circulate notes and action items, and present study progress to the lab

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level