expa - Research Associate
Requirements
• 0–2 years of experience and a bachelor's degree — a recent grad with strong internship experience and real drive, or 1–2 years into your career and looking for a bigger scope than you have today. • Brain power: sharp, curious, and able to reason through a question you've never seen before. • AI-native: You live in AI tools — Claude and Cowork, ChatGPT, Gemini, Hugging Face, whatever's newest. Ideally you can vibe code your way to a working script or prototype without waiting on an engineer. Bonus points if you've hit your usage limit more than once. • Comfortable in ambiguity: Vague briefs don't paralyze you. You take a first pass, come back with questions, and iterate. • Self-directed but coachable: You think independently, but you want to learn from people far ahead of you and take direction well. • Startup-minded: You're not looking for a corporate ladder. You want interesting problems, smart people, and range. • A strong writer: Your research is only as good as your ability to communicate it in a page or less.
Responsibilities
• Run open-ended research projects using the internet as your primary tool: markets, products, companies, funding activity, competitive landscapes, people, technologies, regulation — whatever the question requires. • Turn messy findings into clean outputs: matrices, comparison tables, briefs, landscape maps, one-pagers. • Go deep enough to have a point of view, not just a link dump — flag what matters, what's uncertain, and what you'd look at next. • Use AI tools aggressively to move faster and go wider than a person could alone. • Build lightweight tools, scrapers, or trackers when a project calls for it. • Juggle several unrelated requests at once and reprioritize when things shift.
Benefits
• Salary: The anticipated base salary range for this position is $80,000-$110,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, level, and location. • Benefits: Generous benefits package including medical, dental, and vision, 401(k) matching • Location: Can be remote in the US, with significant travel to Los Angeles
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