• Conduct cutting-edge research and development in reinforcement learning and game theory • Act as a technical expert for other researchers and engineers, guiding the research of multiple endeavors at the same time • Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to bring research ideas to production • Create prototypes targeting practical adoption in GTO Wizard • Keep up-to-date with the latest research and development in the field by constantly reviewing scientific literature

Role Description As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem-solving skills, and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) is an independent research organization at the University of Washington (UW). Its mission is to deliver to the world timely, relevant, and scientifically valid evidence to improve health policy and practice. IHME has an excellent opportunity for a Temporary Research Scientist to join the Reproductive, Genitourinary and Digestive (RGUD) disease estimation team. Responsibilities: - Exhibit command of the team's research areas, including the methodology and its components. - Independently carry out quantitative analyses and participate in reciprocal research projects. Interpret and vet results from junior staff, formulate conclusions, and inform team leaders. - Develop, quality check, and distribute complex datasets to be used in epidemiological and statistical analyses. - Develop and implement new computational and statistical methods. Write, test, and maintain code in Python or R, with a willingness to learn and adapt to additional programming languages as needed. - Maintain, modify, and execute analytic machinery that generates results. - Assist in drafting presentations and manuscripts, and contribute to the preparation of funding proposals. - Lead and co-author scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. - Maintain scientific awareness and intellectual agility with data, methods, and analytic techniques. - May lead and/or mentor junior staff. - Contribute ideas and content for internal and external training materials to enhance understanding and effective use of IHME tools and data. May participate in teaching established trainings. - Contribute to research design. - Other duties as assigned that fall within reasonable scope of research team. Qualifications - Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, quantitative social sciences, or related discipline plus four years' related experience. - Equivalent education and/or experience may substitute for minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license, certification, and/or registration. Requirements - Demonstrated understanding of the common measurement methods and study designs employed in analytic observational epidemiology, their biases and limitations, and available approaches to adjust measurements to support valid causal inference. - Growing peer network where sought out as having solid command of engineering/technical areas, a given disease, risk, key indicator, relevant methodological area, and the related data sources and scientific underpinnings. - Excellent analytic, critical thinking, and quantitative skills. - Results- and detail-oriented individual who can initiate and complete tasks under tight deadlines and changing priorities both independently and in a team environment. Flexibility with hours and workload is key. - Experience devising and executing statistical modeling techniques. - Demonstrated ability to quickly recognize problems in results and identify root causes in data, methods, and code. - Ease in designing, executing, and troubleshooting code in R or Python. - Excellent written and oral communication skills required, including track record of success in coauthorship on multiple scientific papers, presenting results, and representing research at meetings. - Demonstrated ability to contribute to and sustain collaborations with external research teams. - Experience in working with large data sets, including devising strategies for reliable data management for large data sets, computationally efficient modeling techniques to use such data sets, and critical evaluation of highly multidimensional model outputs that result from such work. - Experience with meta-regression, preferably using Burden of Proof or other published methodology employed to estimate causal relationships from diverse data sources. - Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with a team. - A long-term interest in a research scientist position contributing to the overall mission of our research. Desired Qualifications - MD or PhD in public health, epidemiology, statistics, biostatistics, math, economics, or quantitative social sciences plus two years’ experience preferred. - Experience with machine learning, data mining, and analytic techniques. - Experience mentoring and developing junior employees on soft and technical skills. - Experience with project management methods. - Peer-reviewed publication record. Conditions of Employment - Weekend and evening work sometimes required. - This position is open to anyone authorized to work in the US. - Working internationally is only allowed for IHME sponsored work that requires in-country participation. - Office is located in Seattle, Washington. This position is eligible to work fully remote in the US; work schedule required to overlap 50% of IHME office hours, between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. Pacific Time as agreed upon between employee and supervisor. - A COVER LETTER IS REQUIRED IN APPLYING FOR THIS POSITION. - Please in your cover letter: Provide three professional references, including name, position, company, email and phone as well the name and contact information for your current supervisor, including email. - If you are not currently employed, please provide the name and contact information for your most recent supervisor, including email. Compensation, Benefits and Position Details - Pay Range Minimum: $105,816.00 annual - Pay Range Maximum: $128,316.00 annual - For information about benefits for this position, visit this link . - Shift: First Shift (United States of America) - Temporary or Regular? This is a temporary position - FTE (Full-Time Equivalent): 100.00% - Union/Bargaining Unit: SEIU Local 925 - IHME

Role Description The Assessment Scientist will be responsible for the following core responsibilities: - eCOA Management (Endpoint Scale Implementation & UAT) - Lead scientific oversight of eCOA implementation, ensuring accurate translation of endpoint scales into digital platforms with full fidelity to protocol and scoring requirements. - Drive development and review of eCOA specifications, partnering with vendors to deliver high-quality, fit-for-purpose system design. - Own UAT strategy, including authoring and reviewing test scripts to validate endpoint logic, workflows, and data integrity. - Lead end-to-end UAT execution, proactively identifying and resolving issues to ensure successful system delivery and study readiness. - Scales Management & Translation - Lead global scale licensing and copyright strategy, ensuring compliant and efficient use of clinical outcome assessments. - Ensure accurate scale selection, version control, and implementation aligned with protocol-defined endpoints. - Oversee translation strategy and vendor execution, ensuring high-quality, culturally appropriate instruments across regions. - Drive consistency across source scales, translations, and eCOA/eCRF implementations to protect endpoint integrity. - Rater Training (Endpoint Reliability & Standardization) - Design and deliver tailored rater training programs to ensure high-quality, standardized endpoint data collection across sites. - Define rater qualification standards and support selection of experienced, study-ready site personnel. - Develop and deploy engaging training and certification programs to drive consistency in scale administration and scoring. - Monitor rater performance and lead targeted remediation to minimize variability and protect endpoint reliability. Qualifications - Graduate (e.g., MA/MS) degree in psychology/behavioral sciences, or related field preferred. - Knowledge of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric assessments, including patient reported outcome measures. Experience rating psychiatric and/or neuropsychiatric assessments preferred. - Experience within the clinical research or pharmaceutical industry. - Excellent planning/organizational skills and ability to prioritize and multitask. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically: Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken, with an ability to inform, influence, convince, and persuade. - Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting in professional settings. - Ability to travel as necessary (approximately 20%). Additional Information Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.

Title: PV Coordinator Location: Remote Philippines Full time Remote Provides contracted project coordination and safety support on global and domestic programs with an emphasis on serious and non-serious adverse events, protocol inquiries, physician assessment of diagnostics. In collaboration with Safety Specialists and Medical Monitors, liaises and establishes effective relationships with internal functional team members to implement projects, prepare contractual documents, coordinate and facilitate meetings and accurately manage all incoming safety documentation. What You’ll Do: - Coordinates the timely review of protocol inquiries, serious and non-serious adverse events, diagnostics; tracks all necessary data and generates reports for the client, project team and/or external vendors.  - Coordinates/facilitates project meetings, drafts meeting minutes, posts blinded and unblinded minutes/materials to client portals and distributes to internal and external project teams.  - Manages project specific training and the set-up, maintenance and archival of program files; ensuring PV remains audit ready.  - Identifies and redacts subject identifiers per local requirements, retrains sites and escalates reoccurrences to the organization's Data Privacy.  - Performs data entry into internal/external databases, tracking systems and the organization's budget management system; performs system reconciliations to identify issues which may negatively impact project timelines. - Oversees expenses and manages translations; ensuring budget parameters are not exceeded.  - Coordinates department functions and performs other duties as assigned.  - Supports any specific activities performed by the local office, which cannot be performed from elsewhere Education and Experience Requirements: - High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification - Technical positions may require a certificate - Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 4 years). In some cases an equivalency, consisting of a combination of appropriate education, training and/or directly related experience, will be considered sufficient for an individual to meet the requirements of the role. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: - Ability to assist in the management of a large project and to provide work direction and training to other safety support staff working on the project - Strong critical thinking skills and ability to use problem-solving techniques applicable to constantly changing environments - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, demonstrating initiative - Ability to build strong relationships - Ability to effectively analyze project-specific data/systems to ensure accuracy and efficiency - Ability to act as a liaison and communicate respectfully and diplomatically with all clients, management, project team members and other internal staff - Self-motivated, positive attitude with effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills - Excellent computer skills to include MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access) - Ability to identify and set priorities and effectively perform a variety of tasks simultaneously with strict deadlines - Strong attention to detail and accuracy with orientation toward careful and meticulous work - Ability to maintain a positive and professional demeanor in challenging circumstances - Flexibility to reprioritize workload to meet changing project timelines - Demonstrated ability to attain and maintain a good working knowledge of applicable FDA Regulations, ICH Good Clinical Practices, and the organization's/Client SOPs and WPDs for all non clinical/clinical aspects of project implementation, execution and closeout Working Conditions and Environment: - Work is performed in a homebased environment with exposure to electrical office equipment - Potential drives to site locations and/or travel required on rare occasion - Majority of work computer-based - Long varied hours required on occasion