Research Associate (General) (Freelancer)

About Us

Deccan AI Experts is a pioneering AI company founded by IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumni, with a strong founding team from IITs, NITs, and BITS. We specialize in high-quality human-curated data, AI-first operations, and advanced AI evaluation systems.

About the Role

We are seeking a Research Associate (General) (Freelancer) to support advanced AI evaluation initiatives focused on research, information synthesis, evidence validation, analytical reasoning, and AI-generated research evaluation.

In this role, you will conduct structured research, analyze information from multiple sources, validate evidence, and evaluate AI-generated research outputs across a wide range of domains. Your expertise will help improve next-generation AI systems by ensuring factual accuracy, source reliability, logical reasoning, and high-quality research deliverables.

This position is ideal for professionals with experience in research, consulting, policy analysis, market research, journalism, academia, business analysis, or knowledge management.

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured research across multiple domains using reliable and authoritative sources.
• Analyze and synthesize information from reports, academic publications, industry documents, government sources, and public datasets.
• Develop concise research summaries, analytical reports, briefing notes, and evidence-backed insights.
• Validate references, citations, numerical data, and claims against trusted sources.
• Identify unsupported assertions, reasoning gaps, hallucinations, inconsistencies, outdated information, and citation errors in AI-generated research.
• Create structured evaluation rubrics and provide actionable feedback to improve AI research performance.
• Review peer-generated research deliverables to ensure consistency and quality standards.
• Maintain detailed documentation of research methodologies, assumptions, findings, and source references.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in any discipline is required; a Masters degree is preferred.
• 2+ years of experience in research, consulting, market research, policy analysis, business analysis, journalism, academia, strategy, or similar analytical roles.
• Conducting structured desktop research using credible sources.
• Synthesizing information from multiple references into concise, evidence-based insights.
• Verifying facts, statistics, citations, and source credibility.
• Writing structured reports, summaries, and analytical documents.
• Reviewing AI-generated research for factual correctness and logical consistency.
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written English communication and report-writing abilities.
• High attention to detail and commitment to evidence-based analysis.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with consulting firms, research organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, market research companies, media organizations, or corporate strategy teams.
• Experience conducting market research, policy research, competitive intelligence, industry analysis, academic research, or business research.
• Familiarity with AI research workflows, prompt engineering, AI benchmarking, RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback), or response evaluation.
• Experience using research databases and productivity tools such as Google Scholar, JSTOR, PubMed, SSRN, Statista, government databases, Excel, Notion, or reference management software.
• Background in business, economics, public policy, law, healthcare, finance, technology, social sciences, or related disciplines is an advantage.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated reports, summaries, research documents, or multimodal research outputs is a plus.

Why Join Us

• Competitive hourly pay: ₹1,500/hour
• Fully remote with flexible working hours.
• Opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge AI research, evaluation, and benchmark development initiatives.
• Exposure to advanced AI systems, knowledge retrieval workflows, and research intelligence platforms.
• Flexible project-based opportunities with global teams.
• Work on next-generation AI systems that support research, decision-making, and enterprise knowledge management.