Research Scientist (Remote)

NEW YORK, NY ·    SCIENCE ·    FULL-TIME

Who We Are

At Statespace we’re using cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and video games to revolutionize the way that humans improve.

Our first product (Aim Lab) is a personalized, AI-powered analytics and training platform for competitive gamers and Esports athletes. Aim Lab has well over a million users and the best user community in the whole wide world (we may be biased).

Our team consists of scientists, designers, engineers, and game industry vets coming together from places like NYU, MTV, NASA, Yale, Nintendo, and the NFL. We are well-funded and supported by some of the world’s best investors and entrepreneurs, including Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Lux Capital, Expa Capital, and WndrCo.

Our Culture

Weird. Non-traditional background. Underdog. Outcast. If people have used any of these words or phrases to describe you…welcome home. Kick-ass engineer or designer without a degree? Come join our team.

We hire talented, self-motivated people and get out of their way. We are based in NYC but have a remote work culture and are looking for exceptional people to join our team regardless of their physical location.

We value performance, not hours worked (or when you work them). We believe you shouldn’t have to miss your kid’s play or doctor’s appointment for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.

However, if you are looking for a job where you are happy to just collect a nice paycheck and/or nap under your desk like George Costanza, we are not the right fit for you (we don’t even have desks).

The work we do is hard, and therefore, a key company goal is to mitigate needless obstacles that prevent our team members from accomplishing their goals. To that end, our vacation policy is “take it whenever you want to”, our PTO policy is “take it whenever you need to”. We offer very generous medical, dental, vision, and retirement plans.

The Research Scientist Role

We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team who can design, develop, run, and analyze studies to assess and optimize sensorimotor behavioral performance in FPS games. The Research Scientist will work closely with our internal Science team and Engineering team, as well as with outside partners, and will report to our Chief Scientific Officer.

Key Responsibilities

• Design studies to measure and characterize human performance in FPS game scenarios
• Implement those studies in Unity/C# as extensions to our product (Aim Lab)
• Data analysis and modeling using Python and cloud computing.

Ideal Skills

• Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or a related field
• Research experience
• Sensorimotor psychophysics (vision, hearing, and/or motor control)
• Experimental design and implementation
• Unity/C# programming experience
• Game development
• Python programming experience
• Data analysis and statistics
• SQL
• Databricks experience is a plus

The location of this role is US-Remote

We believe in hiring the best, the brightest, and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. You will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.

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