Applied Research Scientist [Machine Visibility]

1 week, 3 days ago
Full-time
Senior
Data Science and Analytics
PR Newswire

PR Newswire

PR Newswire provides comprehensive news distribution, targeting, monitoring, and marketing solutions that enable communicators to effectively connect and engage with their target audiences on a global scale.

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 1954
$83M raised

Description

  • Build and organize the research data infrastructure by cleaning, structuring, and expanding Prerender’s existing datasets.
  • Design new data collection streams to support questions that current data cannot answer.
  • Conduct original research using Prerender data, web-scale datasets, and primary research methods.
  • Own the full research lifecycle from question framing and methodology to analysis and findings.
  • Publish research outputs ranging from quick data snapshots to flagship studies under your name.
  • Develop and maintain a behavioral taxonomy of known and emerging bots and track changes in the crawler ecosystem.
  • Research how AI crawlers, LLM-based search systems, and autonomous agents interact with web content.
  • Use AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesis, and pattern recognition in your research workflow.
  • Bring research findings into conversations that shape product, sales, marketing, and investment decisions.
  • Work directly with the CEO to shape the research agenda and ongoing priorities.

Requirements

  • Published original research experience in academia or industry, from hypothesis through defensible conclusions.
  • Hands-on large-scale data analysis experience, including querying production data independently.
  • Proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Strong experiment design skills, including hypothesis formulation, variable isolation, statistical validation, and outcome measurement.
  • Experience building data infrastructure, not just analyzing pre-built datasets.
  • Comfort using AI tools in research workflows.
  • Direct experience observing AI crawler behavior in production environments is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with technical SEO, including crawlability, rendering, indexing, and structured data, is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is preferred.
  • Background in information retrieval or NLP is preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work with preferred EU timezone overlap.
  • Health coverage.
  • Flexible time off.
  • Tax-optimized allowances.
  • Learning budget for conferences, courses, tools, and resources.
  • Direct ownership of the research function and its output.
  • Opportunity to have published work read, cited, and used by the industry.
  • Structured onboarding with a tiered output model and a six-month roadmap.

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