Decision Research Scientist

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# Decision Research Scientist **Team:** Research & Development **Location:** Flexible / Remote **Reporting to:** Head of R&D ## Role Overview Rwazi advances decision systems — software capable of structured reasoning under real-world constraints. The Decision Research Scientist applies formal reasoning, modeling, and experimentation to real enterprise decision problems. This role operates at the boundary between research and application. It translates abstract decision theory, evaluation logic, and structured reasoning into practical system improvements that enhance Rwazi’s decision intelligence. This is applied decision research — not academic isolation. ## Core Mandate The Decision Research Scientist is accountable for: - Designing formal decision frameworks for complex enterprise problems - Modeling tradeoffs, uncertainty, and signal ambiguity - Advancing structured reasoning methodologies - Testing and validating new decision architectures - Converting research insight into system-ready primitives This role strengthens the reasoning depth of Rwazi’s decision engine. ## Key Responsibilities ### Applied Decision Modeling - Formalize complex business questions into structured decision systems - Model uncertainty, tradeoffs, and multi-variable constraints - Design evaluation logic for ambiguous signal environments - Develop structured judgment methodologies ### Research-to-Application Translation - Apply theoretical frameworks to real client use cases - Test decision logic against live or simulated environments - Identify structural weaknesses in existing decision pathways - Propose formal improvements with measurable rigor ### Experimental Design - Design controlled experiments to validate reasoning enhancements - Define metrics for decision quality and output consistency - Compare alternative system architectures under defined constraints ### Cross-Functional Integration - Collaborate with Research Engineers to prototype research concepts - Provide formal specifications to Product and Engineering - Advise leadership on long-term decision capability evolution ## Role Impact Strong performance in this role results in: - More reliable and explainable decision outputs - Increased reasoning depth across signal types - Expansion into new classes of enterprise problems - Stronger structural defensibility This role deepens Rwazi’s intellectual core. ## What This Role Is Not - This is not feature delivery - This is not surface-level analytics - This is not academic research detached from application This role requires rigorous thinking applied to real-world constraints. ## Qualifications and Profile We are looking for individuals who demonstrate: - Strong grounding in decision theory, systems modeling, or applied reasoning - Experience formalizing ambiguous problems into structured frameworks - Comfort working with AI systems and reasoning architectures - Ability to design and evaluate experiments rigorously - Intellectual independence and systems thinking Candidates may come from applied AI research, quantitative modeling, computational social science, economics, operations research, or advanced analytics domains. ## How Candidates Are Evaluated Candidates are evaluated based on: - Their ability to formalize complex decision problems - The rigor and clarity of their reasoning models - Evidence of applying theory to practical systems - Depth of structured thinking - Their ability to improve decision quality measurably ## Summary The Decision Research Scientist advances Rwazi’s applied decision intelligence by turning complex reasoning into structured, validated system logic.