Qualitative Researcher

Date of Posting: 11 August 2025

About the Position

Tattle is a civic tech organization that build tools and datasets to enable civic action against online harms. We support researchers as well as conduct in-house research on platform governance, gendered harassment, AI Safety and 'responsible' AI.

We are looking for a qualitative researcher to support our work on our growing AI Safety track. There is no specific qualification but experience with ethnographic methods and an interest in platform governance and digital rights is a must. People who have played this role in the past have come from anthropology, media studies, feminist studies, STS, HCI. You can see the kind of projects you might be embedded in here:

• Uli Dataset
• Safety Benchmarks for MLCommons

Necessary skills:

• Ability to faciliate focus group discussions on topics of digital risks with community based organizations and nonprofits who might not have technical expertise
• Ability to sift through, compile and derive insights from academic literature
• Excellent documentation skills. This includes managing literature through reference management systems such as Zotero
• Record of presenting complex ideas to a general audiences
• A masters or PhD or equivalent work experience

Start Date: As soon as possible.

Location: Remote but must be willing to travel for team and project meetings.

Duration: This is a full time position. For exceptional candidates, we may consider a part time (3+ days a week) position.

Remuneration: Based on experience.

Deadline: Rolling

About Tattle

• Tattle works on the policy of "As open as possible. As closed as necessary." We are a FOSS project. You are encouraged to write honestly about research findings, and aren't bound by prohibitive NDAs.

• We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.

• At Tattle, we value inter-disciplinary thinking and unconventional life experiences. We provide space to incorporate your unique learnings in all that we make.

• We provide a stress free work environment. We have a flexible 8 hours workday policy, without interruptions from us beyond that.

• We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.

We Value Diversity and Multiplicity of Experiences

At Tattle, we cherish diversity of experiences and perspectives. It adds value to our work. To this end, we strongly encourage candidates, even if they feel they don't meet all the above listed criteria but find alignment with the project and are driven to learn, to apply.

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