Predoctoral Research Jobs at Princeton

The Ayroles and Kocher Labs are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Senior Research Specialist to join our cutting-edge research teams. The Ayroles lab focuses on unraveling the complex interplay between evolution and natural variation in shaping phenotypic diversity within and between species. We are at the forefront of understanding how genetic and environmental factors contribute to adaptive traits. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with large-scale genomic and transcriptomic datasets, applying advanced computational methods to address fundamental questions in evolutionary biology, phylogenetics, and population genetics. The Ayroles lab has recently generated DNA and RNA sequencing for thousands of individuals (including some scRNA) to study the impact of...

The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics seeks applicants for a Research Specialist I to join the laboratory of Professor Coleen Murphy. Professor Murphy’s research is centered on understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of behavior, using the model system C. elegans as well as mammalian tissue culture. Projects will involve exploring the genetics, genomics, molecular biology, and biochemistry of C. elegans and using mammalian cells to dissect conserved genetic mechanisms and carry out small molecule screens. Salary will include the full benefits package. This is a one-year term position, with the possibility of  renewal based on available funding and satisfactory performance.

We are seeking an experienced clinical coordinator for the Rutgers-Princeton Center for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (CCNP). The position involves recruiting participants with mental health conditions, as well as healthy controls, for behavioral studies; administering clinical assessments, cognitive batteries and self report instruments to the study participants and running the behavioral tasks. Additional responsibilities include working with researchers at Princeton and Rutgers to identify and design new studies that could be run at the Center, writing and updating study protocols for these studies for review by the Instititutional Review Board, and coordinating the Center seminar series and workshops. This is a one-year term position with the possibility of renewal based on...

Privacy, algorithmic fairness, accountability and transparency are currently at the center of key debates across academia, industry and policy. Join a research team at the intersection of these topics and aims to leverage algorithmic thinking in order to provide new solution spaces that allow for a better balance between individual interests, societal goals, and technical innovation. This position is temporary.

Seeking a Research Assistant interested in algorithmic mechanism design. The faculty supervisor pursues research in these areas: auction design, combinatorial auctions, blockchain protocols, algorithms under uncertainty, and economics and computation.  This position is temporary.

Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and interest in this position. Applications without both documents will not be considered. A full-time Research Specialist I/II position is available in the Flow Cytometry Resource Facility (FCRF) laboratory in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. The FCRF provides support for Princeton University faculty and student research utilizing state-of-the-art flow cytometry and fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) techniques and instrumentation.  We currently support over 40 Principal Investigator labs on campus and over 160 researchers working with a wide variety of model systems and assays that represent research areas that include immunology, cancer biology, neuroscience, virology,...

The Brooks Laboratory seeks a highly motivated Research Specialist I/II that will work full-time. This hire will genotype mice within own conventional mouse colony, assist with mouse experiments, and participate in lab maintenance. The work performed by this hire will be central to the core projects of the lab, and will result in co-authorship on high impact publications. This position is a one year term with the possibility of renewal.

Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is looking to hire a full-time pre-doctoral research fellow (Senior Research Specialist). The position entails close collaboration with Professor Tanushree Goyal on research projects related to local politics and political economy of development in India and Brazil (for example at the intersection of local elections, culture/ norms, climate, gender, political participation, bureaucracy etc.) The position involves a variety of tasks that provide excellent preparation for graduate school or work in a data science career. Work includes tasks such as conducting advanced econometric analysis and preparing results tables, managing large data sets, handling spatial data, applying machine learning algorithms, conducting...

Princeton University’s Bendheim Center for Finance (BCF) is seeking a Senior Research Specialist. BCF is at the forefront of research and education in Money and Finance, with the mission to serve our global society. As an interdisciplinary center, it draws its faculty from various departments across Princeton’s campus. New technology has profound implications on the role of money and the international financial architecture. BCF aspires to be part of this process by developing and applying novel research tools and methods. BCF’s educational programs equip students with cutting-edge insights and tools. Finally, through its public and policy outreach, BCF aims to bring an important contribution to the broader public and policy debate on macroeconomics, money, and finance.

About BDI The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying the groundwork for longer-term to bridge the divides we face as a nation. We do this by 1) producing action-oriented and responsive research to fill existing gaps and empower local leaders; 2) enabling cross-sector collaboration, so individuals and organizations are better prepared to mitigate risk and respond to crisis when it does arise; and 3) helping to drive the policy and community response. Over the past three years, BDI played an essential role in supporting a wide range of actors preparing for...

The Krienen lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (krienenlab.org) is seeking a bright and motivatedfull-time research specialist. Research in the lab focuses on understanding genetic influences that shape the development and evolution of the mammalian brain. Research Specialist responsibilities include using and developing cutting edge technologies such as cellular barcoding and single cell genomics as part of an international consortium to comprehensively map cell types in mammalian brains. This position provides an excellent opportunity to further develop research skills in neurobiology, genomics-based technology development and computational analysis. This is a one-year term position (with the possibility of renewal); preference is given to candidates who can commit to at...

The Research Program in Development Economics (RPDE) part of the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University seeks one experienced Research Coordinator who will provide research management for senior faculty Pascaline Dupas, Seema Jayachandran, and other affiliated faculty. The center faculty conduct research in economics, with a strong policy focus. Current research interests of the group include health; education; gender inequality and gender-based violence; the environment; and how political and social institutions shape individual behavior. This is a one-year term, benefits-eligible position with a possibility of renewal. 

Petascale EM Imaging Specialist The Princeton Neuroscience Institute is searching for an accomplished scientist to lead acquisitions of petascale image datasets via volume electron microscopy (EM). The Institute is the only site in the world hosting beam deflection transmission EM and multibeam scanning EM instruments, both of which have sufficient throughput for petascale connectomics. The Institute leads the FlyWire Consortium, which in 2023 released the first connectome of an adult brain, that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The Institute is a key performer in the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS program, which aims to scale connectomics up to the whole mouse brain.  

Connectome Annotation Manager OverviewThe Seung & Murthy Lab at Princeton Neuroscience Institute aims to make discoveries by mapping the brain. The Lab is using high-throughput serial electron microscopy (SEM) to completely image multiple brains and nervous systems. The massive data sets will be utilized to reconstruct neuronal circuits, ultimately culminating in the complete connectome—or wiring diagram—of the brain. The connectome will provide the most complete anatomical description of a complex nervous system to date in an organism uniquely suited to combine this anatomical information with functional imaging, electrophysiology, quantitative behavioral assays, precise genetic manipulation of identified cell types and computational modeling. Thus we expect these circuit-level...

The Pritykin lab in the Computer Science Department and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics seeks applicants for Research Specialist I / Research Specialist II. The rank and salary will be commensurate with experience. We seek candidates with computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, machine learning, statistics, data science, applied math and/or other quantitative backgrounds who are enthusiastic about bringing their expertise to addressing fundamental problems in biology and medicine using cutting-edge technologies. The Pritykin lab (http://pritykinlab.princeton.edu) uses applied statistics, machine learning, and efficient algorithms to address fundamental problems in biology and medicine by integrative analysis of multi-dimensional data. We...