Strategic Growth Assistants for Scientific Research Group (New York)

D. E. Shaw Research, LLC is looking for individuals with an extraordinary record of academic and/or professional achievement to play an integral role in developing its businesses.Assistants in the Strategic Growth department are hyper-organized, reliable, and unusually bright people with superior oral and written communication skills whose responsibilities include coordinating candidates’ interview and travel schedules, maintaining files, and updating databases.Their duties also include formulating and executing strategies to identify and recruit world-class scientists and engineers.This is a dynamic, high-visibility position within the firm, which offers multiple opportunities to learn about and grow with the firm’s various ventures.Among the group’s current activities is a project aimed at developing a specialized supercomputer for biomolecular simulation and pharmaceutical design.


This full-time position offers schedule flexibility, and we encourage candidates pursuing outside interests or activities to apply.Team members will be working closely with a number of the world’s leading scientists and engineers, and will have the opportunity to participate in an exciting entrepreneurial venture making groundbreaking contributions within the fields of biology, chemistry, and medicine. Interested applicants should send a resume to Monster-DesresSGAsst@career.deshaw.com


Members of the D. E. Shaw group do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class.