Lab Research Lab Research Assistant – Tepper School of Business

Core Responsibilities

• Build out a framework for Business Language Analysis (BLA), exploiting the fundamental properties of accounting rules.
• Source-grounded extraction from long financial-legal documents, ensuring each extracted item is traceable to its exact location in the source and verifiable against independent evidence.
• Compose reasoning that considers the interaction between multiple provisions or accounts to determine the quantity of interest.
• Create agentic architectures that integrate retrieval, tool use, and verification into auditable multi-step pipelines.
• Apply structural methods on accounting data, including graph spectral and information-theoretic measures of financial-statement graphs, and tensor factorization of multi-way accounting panels under conservation constraints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• 3-5 years of experience in data collection and analysis, research experience, and/or research methodology experience required
• A combination of education and relevant experience from which comparable knowledge is demonstrated may be considered

Requirements

• Successful completion of a pre-employment background check

Benefits

Joining the CMU team opens the door to an array of exceptional benefits, including:

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
• A generous retirement savings program with employer contributions
• Tuition benefits
• Affordable paid time off and observed holidays
• Lifetime life and accidental death and disability insurance
• A free Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus pass
• Access to the Family Concierge Team to help navigate childcare needs
• Fitness center access
• And much more!

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Job Function

Researchers

Position Type

Staff – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Full Time/Part time

Part time

Pay Basis

Hourly

Additional Information

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