Research Scientist for Toloka
Toloka is one of the world's largest crowdsourcing platforms, delivering efficient data labeling at scale. To advance our state-of-the-art crowdsourcing quality and performance, we’re looking for an experienced Research Scientist to join our research team.

Our research team is responsible for improving annotation quality and spreading the innovations we come up with at Toloka. The methods we create are used in mission-critical data labeling tasks in Toloka, and we present our results at top-tier venues.

We’re inviting experienced Research Scientists to perform world-class practical and theoretical research with Toloka. It’s an opportunity to lead the research agenda and publish studies at top-tier international conferences on crowdsourcing, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and other topics.

We’ve presented tutorials at premier scientific conferences like RecSys '22, NAACL-HLT '21, WWW '21, and we also organized crowdsourcing workshops at CHI '22, VLDB '21, and NeurIPS '20. This is a unique opportunity to conduct studies on one of the world's largest crowdsourcing marketplaces: Toloka.

If you’re interested in crowdsourcing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction; follow recent papers from conferences like AAAI, WWW, HCOMP, KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, and CVPR; and would like to give an interdisciplinary research team a try, let’s talk!

Tasks that await you

  • Develop new methods and technologies to advance our crowdsourcing theory and applications
  • Conduct large-scale experiments to verify your hypotheses on Toloka
  • Write scientific papers describing your findings
  • Present your results at top-tier scientific conferences, workshops, and seminars
  • Productionalize your results to impact Toloka’s major customers
  • Educate a wider audience on crowdsourcing and its methodology

We expect that you

  • Ph.D. degree in machine learning, computer science, or human-computer interaction, or equivalent industry experience
  • Ability to write effective Python code, conduct experiments, and reproduce published papers
  • Interest in reading and analyzing scientific publications regularly
  • Proven track record of academic publications
  • English fluency
Thank you for your apply!

We will contact you within a week.

Mon Feb 12 2024 19:00:36 GMT+0300 (Moscow Standard Time)