Job Application for Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation

"As a research scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will work with researchers, software engineers, designers, and volunteers to design, test and evaluate new technologies. You will produce empirical insights to inform the organization’s and the movement’s efforts towards our strategic direction—to become the platform that serves open knowledge to the world and to empower all people to access and contribute to free knowledge. You will turn research questions into publicly shared, reproducible knowledge and work with a team that is strongly committed to principles of transparency, privacy and collaboration. You will use and develop free and open source technology and collaborate with researchers in the industry and academia.

Responsibilities

As a research scientist with our team, you will:

• Conduct research involving experimental design, labeled data collection, large-scale data analysis and data mining, statistical modeling as well as the application and online/offline evaluation of machine learning methods
• Contribute to the design, execution, and communication of research projects
• Discuss, document and share the process and results of your research publicly
• Actively engage in a collaborative, consensus-oriented environment and as part of a globally-distributed organization"