Note: this role was previously listed as "Data Scientist". This is the same job, we have updated the title to better reflect how these titles are used elsewhere in industry.

Blue Rose Research develops cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research informs short- and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

We're a fast, dynamic team shipping innovative work that evolves week by week. We're looking for someone who brings passion for data science, sharp attention to detail, and a drive to make an impact – sometimes under tight timelines.

Public examples of our work

• David Shor's conversation with Ezra Klein in the New York Times analyzing the 2024 election is the best public window into how we think.
• How Democrats Will Run on the GOP's Tax Bill: the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s shared memo on how Blue Rose’s research is informing their campaign communications.
• Bernie Sanders on AI job loss: Senator Sanders cites Blue Rose polling while talking about voters’ fears of AI causing job loss.

What You'll Do

We're hiring a Machine Learning Scientist to join our Polling and Election Forecasting Team, the group responsible for Blue Rose's flagship electoral products. Our team builds and maintains models that help progressive organizations understand the electoral landscape and make informed decisions. We track public opinion, forecast races across the ballot, develop resource allocation tools, and deliver analysis that campaigns and allied organizations rely on to set strategy.

Our problems are not well suited to off-the-shelf ML solutions: we work with messy, evolving political data and constantly pressure-test our accuracy against real election outcomes. The role spans the full modeling lifecycle from raw survey data to predictive scores and requires both rigorous statistical thinking and the judgment to know when a number is real versus an artifact.

Specifically, you'll:

• Build and maintain end-to-end modeling pipelines, improving reliability, data quality checks, and model diagnostics to increase confidence in our outputs.
• Develop models and perform feature engineering, contributing new ideas to improve our polling methodology. You'll think creatively about the right ways to evaluate model performance in contexts where standard metrics don't apply cleanly.
• Translate statistical outputs into actionable guidance for internal stakeholders, connecting model outputs to the strategic questions campaigns and organizations care about.
• Scope technical needs and ship solutions alongside engineers, statisticians, and political analysts.
• Build subject matter context, developing deep knowledge of the political landscape to inform modeling decisions and catch anomalies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience: 4+ years of professional experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or research science with applied statistics and predictive modeling OR equivalent depth from a PhD program. We're open to both paths. What matters is strong instincts for evaluating model performance, diagnosing bugs, and making principled judgment calls under uncertainty.
• Technical: Confident Python / R programmer who can navigate a codebase and implement extensions. Strong data-wrangling experience, ideally including SQL and relational databases. Experience with Bayesian or hierarchical models is a plus, but not required.
• Collaborative: You thrive in multi-disciplinary teams working alongside engineers, statisticians, and political experts, and you're excited to partner with less technical stakeholders and see your work impact real-world decisions.
• A strong communicator: You can translate between statistical and substantive thinking, explaining what a model is saying (and not saying) to people who think in terms of strategy, not standard errors.
• Curious: You're eager to engage with the wider progressive political ecosystem and develop domain knowledge alongside your technical skills.
• A good teammate: You're a kind person who contributes to a warm working environment.

Location

• This is a remote or in-person optional position. We have an office in New York City and a number of team members who work in-person regularly.
• Our teams work on mostly East Coast hours.

What We Offer

• Salary range: $140,000 – $190,000 annually, commensurate with experience
• *Full coverage of health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• 401k with employer match
• Unlimited PTO policy

Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.

*Full coverage applies to specific health plans. Different plans may require some level of employee contribution.

About us: 

Blue Rose Research builds data and AI tools that help Democrats win elections. Our team combines engineering, data science, and political strategy to power decisions for the country’s top campaigns and progressive organizations. We forecast elections, test ads, and use generative AI to help campaigns understand what’s happening in the news; then respond fast with messages that actually work. We have guided how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in modern campaigns. We’re a small, mission-driven team that builds fast, experiments boldly, and helps progressives communicate and win—guided by curiosity, purpose, and a genuine desire to use technology for good.

Machine Learning Lead (LLM & Applied AI)

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Lead for a small team of senior data scientists who are developing ML-driven products that power data-informed strategy for civic leaders and organizations. Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you’ll be in charge of the roadmap and technical direction. This is a hands-on role. You'll be collaborating with the team to build the infrastructure, train the models, and deploy them to production. If you’re motivated to use your technical expertise for meaningful, mission-driven work that advances the public good, this role offers the chance to make a tangible impact.

Other Responsibilities Include:

• Lead a team of senior data scientists focused on fine-tuning large language models, conducting cutting-edge R&D, and building production inference systems.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to define the team roadmap and align priorities with organizational goals.
• Lead weekly meetings and standups, keeping the team unblocked and execution moving forward.
• Provide technical direction across projects using open-weight and off-the-shelf LLMs, as well as other advanced ML techniques.
• Oversee experimentation, optimization, and data quality to ensure models are accurate, reliable, and production-ready.
• Foster creative problem-solving and methodological rigor when challenges require custom solutions beyond standard ML approaches.
• Translate complex model outputs into actionable insights for stakeholders, ensuring technical work drives real-world impact

About you:

• 1+ years leading data science teams; 6+ years in ML or data engineering.
• Strong background in applied statistics, model selection, tuning, and evaluation.
• Proficient in Python, SQL, and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX).
• Experienced in building and deploying production ML and deep learning pipelines.
• Familiar with LLMs, embeddings, agentic workflows, and RAG systems.
• Comfortable with cloud and DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
• Skilled in exploratory data analysis and handling imperfect real-world data.
• You’ll thrive in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve quickly and impact is immediate.
• Collaborative leader who communicates clearly with technical and nontechnical teams.

Mission-driven, curious about civic and political applications of AI, and fosters a positive team culture.

What we Offer: 

• Salary: $165,000 - $210,000 annually, commensurate with experience
• Benefits: Competitive medical, dental, and health coverage
• Work Environment: Remote-first, with offices and regular meetups in NYC and DC (primarily East Coast hours)
• Culture: Fast-moving, collaborative team doing innovative work with real-world impact
• Growth: Opportunities to learn new skills, take on challenges, and shape meaningful projects
• Inclusion: We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds — you don’t need to meet every qualification to apply
• Eligibility: Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Blue Rose Research is looking for an experienced political analyst ready to own client relationships, drive strategic decisions, and deliver work that matters in consequential races.

Blue Rose Research develops a wide range of cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research powers short-term and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

The Blue Rose Research team has a storied history and has worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources. The work produced by the team is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, PhD data scientists and political insiders who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem.

Leads on the Research Team at Blue Rose Research own the full lifecycle of Blue Rose's client partnerships, serving as the senior point of contact across the progressive community while leading internal coordination among data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts to deliver results. The insights from our products are used for understanding the issues important to the American public, what policies should be supported, how best to argue for them, and much more. We are responsible for research products that are scalable, robust, accurate, and useful.

We’re a fast and dynamic team, and you’ll be contributing to an increasingly rapid cadence of research projects with a growing roster of clients from across the progressive political world. The ideal candidate brings substantive political expertise, sharp judgment about what matters and why, and the ability to move seamlessly between technical teams and senior clients without losing anything in translation.

We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, and health benefits, and the ability for you to be your full self at work! While the work is remote, most of the team is NYC based where we have an office.

Salary range: $145-$180k per annum, commensurate with experience. This position is full time. Remote allowed, Washington D.C. area preferred.

Your work would likely include:

• Owning and cultivating a significant book of business end to end: methodology, margins, timelines, and outcomes, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks regardless of who is executing day-to-day
• Serving as a credible external face for Blue Rose with clients, political partners, and vendors in a way that advances the firm's reputation and evidence-based theory of change
• Exercising the independent judgment to push back, reframe, or say no when the situation calls for it
• Producing client-ready presentations and deliverables that can go out the door without review; knowing what's worth sharing with the broader Democratic community and what isn't, drawing on deep political and methodological context
• Designing and fielding surveys at scale across multiple simultaneous projects, with rigorous attention to quality, timeline, and budget
• Working with and mentoring junior team members, reviewing their work and supporting their growth
• Translating fluently between data scientists and engineers on one side and clients and political strategists on the other
• Identifying and developing new approaches to how Blue Rose analyzes, interprets, and communicates its research

Qualified candidates ideally:

• Have deep roots in Democratic politics; you’ve been in the industry for a ~decade or more, and have spent several cycles in a senior role
• Have extensive experience in a client-facing or senior stakeholder-facing role
• Can comfortably explain basic modeling and regression techniques for a non-technical audience
• Are comfortable with SQL and relational databases; can quickly orient to a new dataset, perform exploratory analysis, spot data quality issues, and justify decisions about how to handle imperfect data
• Have strong oral and written communication skills, and demonstrated proficiency with producing formal deliverables, from memos to presentations to proposals 
• Have a desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, machine learning data scientists, statisticians and political experts. Are excited about working with less-technical stakeholders and seeing how their work impacts real-world decision making
• Enjoy and have experience working in fast-paced environments turning around a high volume of relatively small projects
• Enjoy spending as much of your time interacting with other people as you do getting in the weeds of data and methodology
• Are solutions-oriented, have strong attention to detail, and are a creative thinker who isn’t daunted by open-ended research questions
• Are a kind person and a team player who contributes to a warm working environment

We don’t expect every applicant to have expertise in every area listed above. We encourage you to apply if you don’t feel your experience and background sound like a perfect fit. Many of our team members have taken an unusual path to get to where they are today, and our unique and diverse perspectives make us more effective. We also believe strongly in our team’s ability to learn and excel at new skills and challenges. Join us!

Are you passionate about progressive politics? Are you interested in presenting messaging guidance to decision makers? Do you enjoy paying fierce attention to detail? Are you excited to leverage your skills and talents to safeguard our freedoms and build a better future for all of us? Then you should consider working with us!

Blue Rose Research develops a wide range of cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research undergirds short-term and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

The Blue Rose Research team has a storied history and has worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources. The work produced by the team is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, PhD data scientists and political insiders who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem.

Managers on the Research Team at Blue Rose Research manage the day-to-day of our partnerships across the progressive community, as well as internally among our data scientists, machine learning engineers, and analysts to deliver results on time. The insights from our products are used for understanding the issues important to the American public, what policies should be supported, how best to argue for them, and much more. We are responsible for research products that are scalable, robust, accurate, and useful.

We’re a fast and dynamic team, and you’ll be contributing to an increasingly rapid cadence of research projects with a growing roster of clients from across the progressive political world. We’re looking for you to bring your passion for politics, an ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, a strong attention to detail, and a desire to make a big impact on a timeline.

We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, and health benefits, and the ability for you to be your full self at work! While the work is remote, most of the team is NYC based where we have an office.

Salary range: $90-$130k per annum, commensurate with experience. This position is full time. Remote allowed, Washington D.C. area preferred.

Your work would include:

• Serving as the point of contact for a portfolio of clients, building trusted relationships and ensuring research findings are delivered clearly, on time, and with strategic context
• Designing and launching surveys that will be taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans
• Managing the fielding of multiple surveys simultaneously to ensure sufficient data collection on time and on budget
• Tracking timelines and priorities and liaising between data scientists, engineers, and client-facing stakeholders
• Supporting external outreach efforts, including presentations to clients, political partners, and other vendors and consultants 
• Analyzing data to answer questions from political strategists and clients
• Building subject matter context and thinking critically about our data in order to discern real trends versus potential bugs to flag for our machine learning data scientists
• Contributing new ideas to the ways we analyze, interpret, and communicate our data – we strive to deliver the best strategic guidance and believe that everyone on the team is part of that goal
• Providing product feedback to engineers to improve our tools for internal and external usage

Qualified candidates ideally:

• Have at least 3-4 years professional experience, including internships 
• Have at least 1 year experience in a client or external-facing role
• Are comfortable with SQL and relational databases. Can quickly orient themselves to a new dataset, perform exploratory analysis, spot data quality issues, and justify decisions about how to handle imperfect data
• Have some background in R or python programming
• Can comfortably explain basic modeling and regression techniques for a non-technical audience
• Have strong oral and written communication skills, especially in a remote environment
• Enjoy spending as much of their time interacting with other people as they do writing code
• Have a desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, machine learning data scientists, statisticians and political experts. Are excited about working with less-technical stakeholders and seeing how their work impacts real-world decision making
• Enjoy and have experience working in fast-paced environments turning around a high volume of relatively small projects
• Are interested in and passionate about progressive politics; willing to engage with the wider progressive political ecosystem and develop domain knowledge in addition to technical insight 
• Are solutions-oriented, have strong attention to detail, and are a creative thinker who isn’t daunted by open-ended research questions
• Are a kind person and a team player who contributes to a warm working environment

We don’t expect every applicant to have expertise in every area listed above. We encourage you to apply if you don’t feel your experience and background sound like a perfect fit. Many of our team members have taken an unusual path to get to where they are today, and our unique and diverse perspectives make us more effective. We also believe strongly in our team’s ability to learn and excel at new skills and challenges. Join us!

Are you passionate about progressive politics? Are you interested in presenting messaging guidance to decision makers? Do you enjoy paying fierce attention to detail? Are you excited to leverage your skills and talents to safeguard our freedoms and build a better future for all of us? Then you should consider working with us!

Blue Rose Research develops a wide range of cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research undergirds short-term and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

The Blue Rose Research team has a storied history and has worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources. The work produced by the team is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, PhD data scientists and political insiders who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem.

Analysts at Blue Rose Research coordinate among our data scientists, machine learning engineers, and the principals managing client relationships to deliver results on time. The insights from our products are used for understanding the issues important to the American public, what policies should be supported, how best to argue for them, and much more. We are responsible for research products that are scalable, robust, accurate, and useful.

We’re a fast and dynamic team, and you’ll be contributing to an increasingly rapid cadence of research projects with a growing roster of clients from across the progressive political world. We’re looking for you to bring your passion for politics, an ability to translate between technical and non-technical stakeholders, a strong attention to detail, and a desire to make a big impact on a timeline.

We offer a competitive salary, medical, dental, and health benefits, and the ability for you to be your full self at work! While the work is remote, most of the team is NYC based where we have an office.

Salary range: $70-100k per annum, commensurate with experience. This position is full time. Remote allowed.

Your work would include:

• Designing and launching surveys that will be taken by hundreds of thousands of Americans
• Managing the fielding of multiple surveys simultaneously to ensure sufficient data collection on time and on budget
• Tracking timelines and priorities and liaising between data scientists, engineers, and client-facing stakeholders
• Supporting external outreach efforts, including presentations to clients, political partners, and other vendors and consultants 
• Analyzing data to answer questions from political strategists and clients
• Building subject matter context and thinking critically about our data in order to discern real trends versus potential bugs to flag for our machine learning data scientists
• Contributing new ideas to the ways we analyze, interpret, and communicate our data – we strive to deliver the best strategic guidance and believe that everyone on the team is part of that goal
• Providing product feedback to engineers to improve our tools for internal and external usage

Qualified candidates ideally:

• Have at least 1-2 years professional experience, including internships 
• Are comfortable with SQL and relational databases. Can quickly orient themselves to a new dataset, perform exploratory analysis, spot data quality issues, and justify decisions about how to handle imperfect data
• Have some background in R or python programming
• Can comfortably explain basic modeling and regression techniques for a non-technical audience
• Have strong oral and written communication skills, especially in a remote environment
• Enjoy spending as much of their time interacting with other people as they do writing code
• Have a desire to work in multi-disciplinary teams with engineers, machine learning data scientists, statisticians and political experts. Are excited about working with less-technical stakeholders and seeing how their work impacts real-world decision making
• Enjoy and have experience working in fast-paced environments turning around a high volume of relatively small projects
• Are interested in and passionate about progressive politics; willing to engage with the wider progressive political ecosystem and develop domain knowledge in addition to technical insight 
• Are solutions-oriented, have strong attention to detail, and are a creative thinker who isn’t daunted by open-ended research questions
• Are a kind person and a team player who contributes to a warm working environment

We don’t expect every applicant to have expertise in every area listed above. We encourage you to apply if you don’t feel your experience and background sound like a perfect fit. Many of our team members have taken an unusual path to get to where they are today, and our unique and diverse perspectives make us more effective. We also believe strongly in our team’s ability to learn and excel at new skills and challenges. Join us!

Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.

Blue Rose Research is seeking an AI Politics Fellow to help Democratic elected officials, candidates, and progressive organizations navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence. This is a full-time, one-year fellowship with potential to convert to a permanent position. The Fellow will draft memos, design research instruments, and develop policy frameworks that help Democrats meet this cultural moment with informed, effective messaging and strategy on AI.

Reporting to the Director of External Affairs, this Fellow will serve as BRR's in-house expert on AI policy and politics, working closely with our data scientists, researchers, and client-facing teams to integrate AI expertise into our suite of products and services.

What You'll Do

Policy Research & Analysis

• Track and analyze AI policy developments at federal, state, and international levels, including legislation, regulation, executive actions, and emerging debates
• Develop policy briefs and strategic recommendations on AI regulation, safety, competition, privacy, and related issues
• Monitor AI's impact on jobs, the economy, and society, and advise on how Democrats should respond to these shifts
• Research and analyze strategies for combating AI-generated misinformation in elections

Messaging & Communications Strategy

• Design survey research and message testing to evaluate how voters think about AI and understand public opinion on AI-related issues
• Utilize Blue Rose’s research, draft messaging guides, talking points, and strategic communications frameworks to help Democratic stakeholders
• Translate complex technical and policy concepts into clear, compelling language for political audiences

Stakeholder Engagement & Thought Leadership

• Support BRR's leadership team in client presentations and stakeholder briefings on AI-related topics
• Represent Blue Rose Research as a subject matter expert on AI and politics at conferences, events, and convenings
• Position BRR as a trusted resource on AI policy and messaging within the Democratic ecosystem

Product Development

• Collaborate with BRR's data science and engineering teams to integrate AI policy expertise into our research products and tools
• Provide input on how BRR can leverage our existing message testing infrastructure to better serve clients on AI-related questions
• Identify opportunities to expand BRR's offerings in the AI and tech policy space

About You

• Deep knowledge of technology policy, particularly AI regulation, safety, ethics, competition, and governance
• 2-5 years of professional experience in tech policy, political campaigns, government, advocacy organizations, or related fields
• Background or familiarity with survey research, message testing, and/or polling methodology
• Strong understanding of the Democratic political ecosystem and current political dynamics
• Exceptional writer and communicator who can translate technical concepts for non-technical political audiences
• Comfortable presenting complex research to senior elected officials, campaign staff, and organizational leadership
• Self-starter who can proactively identify emerging issues and opportunities without constant direction
• Passionate about progressive politics and using research to help Democrats win elections and advance good policy
• Collaborative team player who works well across disciplines—comfortable coordinating with data scientists, researchers, and political strategists

Bonus Points:

• Technical knowledge of AI and machine learning systems
• Experience working on political campaigns, on Capitol Hill, or with Democratic elected officials
• Experience working at a polling, analytics, or data firm
• Existing relationships within the Democratic policy and political communities

What We Offer

• Salary: $90,000-130,000.
• Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and health coverage; unlimited vacation leave; annual learning stipend; a supportive, mission-driven culture
• Work Setup: Fully remote team with offices in NYC and DC, and regular in-person meetups. Most of our work happens on East Coast time.
• Impact: Your work will shape how Democrats understand and communicate about one of the most important issues of our time, informing strategy for the country's top campaigns and progressive organizations
• Growth: This is a one-year fellowship with strong potential to convert to a permanent position based on performance and organizational needs

About Blue Rose Research

Blue Rose Research builds data and AI tools that help Democrats win elections. Our team combines engineering, data science, and political strategy to power decisions for the country's top campaigns and progressive organizations. We forecast elections, test ads, and use generative AI to help campaigns understand what's happening in the news and respond fast with messages that actually work. We have guided how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in modern campaigns. We're a small, mission-driven team that builds fast, experiments boldly, and helps progressives communicate and win—guided by curiosity, purpose, and a genuine desire to use technology for good.

Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States.

Blue Rose Research develops a wide range of cutting-edge products used by the most important progressive organizations in the country. Our research informs short- and long-term strategy for advancing progressive causes and has a trusted track record among key decision makers.

The team has a storied history and has worked with central players to develop strategy and direct hundreds of millions of dollars of resources. The work produced by Blue Rose Research is widely regarded as among the most technically sophisticated in the space. If you join us, you’ll be plugging into a diverse team of decorated engineers, data scientists and political analysts who are closely connected to some of the most important decision makers in the progressive ecosystem.

If you do not see a position available that fits your skillset or would like to stay informed about new roles, please submit your information here. 

Note: We can only hire candidates who are lawfully authorized to work in the United States.