Darden Technical Research Assistant [Student Wage] (Remote)

Darden is hiring research assistants for academic year who will report directly to Darden faculty or the Office of Research Services. This posting is for multiple positions. Work may include cleaning and parsing data, web scraping, LLM, and data documentation. Potential topics include marketing, the economy, leadership characteristics, entrepreneurship, and other topics relevant to faculty research initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Create data sets by researching publicly available information on companies or cities

• Assist with preparation and storage of large datasets

• Provide documentation on created datasets

• Pull data from reports, the web, and other sources

• Depending on position, work could include working with virtual machines and cloud platforms.

• Other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities:

• Familiarity with high-powered computing, including UVA's computing clusters like Rivanna and Ivy preferred

• Experience with data intelligence platforms, machine learning, or large language models (LLM) for research preferred.

• Experience with Agentic AI (eg. Codex) and APIs preferred

• Ability to read through multiple reports, mine public databases, and distill information into a database (excel spreadsheet or other formats).

• Familiarity with big datasets

• Experience with Python and/or SQL

• Very strong written and verbal communication

• Strong attention to detail

• Able to work independently while balancing multiple projects

• Willing to attack a problem from different angles when the first approach does not work

• Willing to learn on the job

UVA undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Position is open to students in computer science, data science, business, accounting, economics, social sciences, humanities, statistics, math, or other disciplines with strong programming and computational skills.

Hourly pay rate depends on level of education. Students pursing a:

• 4-year degree: $16.00/hour

• MA/MS Degree: $22.00/hour

• Ph.D. Degree: $25/hour

Positions offers 8-20 hours/week. Position is remote, but student must physically reside in the United States. This position is ONLY open to UVA students.

Please include a resume and cover letter with your application.