[Hiring] Research Fellow, Workforce Intelligence @AlphaHire

Role Description

WIL is seeking Research Fellows interested in applied workforce research, labor market analysis, workforce analytics, and operational workforce intelligence focused on the construction industry. This fellowship is for graduate students, PhD candidates, early-career researchers, analysts, and analytically oriented professionals interested in workforce systems, labor market visibility, compensation analysis, and operational workforce planning.

Research Fellows contribute to:

• Labor market analysis
• Workforce analytics
• Compensation benchmarking
• Workforce planning systems
• Labor scarcity indicators
• Workforce intelligence methodologies
• Operational workforce visibility
• Dashboard validation
• Regional workforce intelligence reporting

The current fellowship shape is flexible and remote, structured around approximately 3–5 hours per week. Full-time employment or a larger project-based contract may be scoped when an award calls for it.

Qualifications

• Interest and some demonstrated work in labor economics, workforce analytics, operations research, industrial engineering, applied economics, statistics, data analytics, public policy, construction management, business analytics, urban planning, supply chain and operations, or data science
• Graduate students, PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and analytically oriented professionals are encouraged to apply
• Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field work requires

Requirements

• Comfort with publicly available labor-market and compensation data
• Interest in construction workforce intelligence rather than purely theoretical research
• Ability to contribute about 3–5 flexible remote hours per week on the fellowship track