Fellow, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Overall Responsibility:

This position will serve as a part-time member of AFPI's Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis (OFRA) team. The Fellow will work directly with senior members of OFRA, contributing as a Research Engineer on projects at the intersection of their research agenda and OFRA's policy portfolio across fiscal, regulatory, government efficiency, and other areas. This position would be a good fit for academic researchers passionate about bridging their research and meaningful policy impact alongside OFRA.

Department: Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Reports to: Executive Director of OFRA

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Contribute to OFRA's policy research and engineering work in your area of expertise, particularly at the intersection of your research agenda and OFRA's portfolio;
• Develop and maintain the quantitative analyses, and the software that wraps them, for the projects you take on;
• Manage AI agents to develop and iterate on these tools at scale;
• Mentor junior OFRA staff;
• Clearly champion AFPI's servant leadership culture;
• Operate with discretion in an environment that requires information security.

Consults with:

• The rest of the OFRA team;
• Other economic and technical teams at AFPI;
• Support staff;
• Interns.

Type of Employment: Part-time, paid.

Qualifications:

• A doctorate in a quantitative or policy-relevant field;
• An established research agenda in fiscal, regulatory, government efficiency, or another OFRA-relevant policy area;
• Demonstrated experience translating academic research into applied or policy-relevant work;
• Deep expertise in one or more of econometrics, statistics, simulations, machine learning, and deep learning is a plus;
• Strong programming ability in common programming languages;
• Experience with team-based software development and principles;
• Familiarity with managing resources on at least one major cloud platform;
• Familiarity with frontier AI models, and experience managing AI agents to accomplish substantive engineering tasks at scale;
• Experience taking projects end to end, from problem framing through deployed tooling;
• An interest in or experience with interdisciplinary research is a plus;
• A deep quantitative integrity and respect for the scientific process;
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills (both oral and written);
• Ability to maintain productive, collaborative, and collegial relationships with staff and external stakeholders and uphold the public reputation of the organization;
• An entrepreneurial mindset that seeks out new opportunities to grow and advance the mission of AFPI.

Salaries for positions will be commensurate with the experience, expertise, and skills of the individual. Please send a cover letter, resume, salary requirement, writing samples, and references.

AFPI is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute offering competitive salaries and benefits to qualified candidates.