Quantitative Research Analyst Jobs in Massachusetts
Quantitative Research Analyst jobs in Massachusetts represent one of the most active markets in the country, concentrated in asset management, financial technology, biostatistics, and academic research across roles from entry-level analyst through senior principal. The heaviest hiring is in Boston, Cambridge, and Waltham, where firms like Fidelity Investments, State Street, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory maintain long-standing quantitative research operations. The most in-demand specialties include systematic trading strategy, risk modeling, and statistical genomics. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Position Summary
As a Lead Quantitative UX Researcher, you’ll make behavioral data a core part of how we understand users, using Amplitude and behavioral analytics to uncover meaningful insights into the diverse client and customer populations we serve as a healthcare company. Embedded in specific product areas and partnering closely with our Behavioral Data & Product (BDP) team, you’ll drive how behavioral data shapes everyday product decisions alongside product, design, and engineering partners. This isn’t a lone-researcher role delivering findings from the sidelines: you’ll stay with the team to understand why users behave the way they do and help decide what we build in response. You’ll also be the team’s resident expert on behavioral data, helping teammates see what’s possible with it and get invested in using it well. This is a hybrid role based in Boston and reports to the Principal Design Researcher, Senior Manager.
About the Team
The Data and Ecosystem Platform subdivision focuses on data access, integration, and interoperability across the healthcare ecosystem. As part of the broader User Experience team, you will support specific product areas while shifting focus as organizational priorities evolve. The role will primarily focus on hands-on research and exploration, with additional responsibility for turning effective methods, cohort definitions, dashboards, study designs, and tracking standards into repeatable resources for other teams that raise the bar for how teams across the organization use behavioral data.
Essential Job Responsibilities
- Plan research with Product, Design, Engineering, and Research partners by defining research questions, hypotheses, study designs, and success measures.
- Analyze user and customer behavior through funnel and drop-off analysis, retention and cohort comparisons, journey and path analysis, behavioral segmentation, controlled experiments, surveys, and statistical modeling.
- Use Amplitude, SQL, and R or Python to combine data sources, conduct significance testing and modeling, and analyze behavioral, survey, and mixed-method data.
- Identify segment- and specialty-specific patterns that improve the organization’s understanding of its diverse users and customers.
- Combine quantitative findings with qualitative and survey research to develop a more complete understanding of user behavior and the factors influencing it.
- Conduct qualitative research, including user interviews, usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, and contextual inquiry.
- Define meaningful cohorts and segments and translate them into participant lists, screeners, and outreach criteria.
- Partner with the Behavioral Data & Product and Engineering teams on cross-product analyses, event taxonomies, tracking plans, data quality, and centralized user profile use cases.
- Develop clear dashboards, reports, readouts, and recommendations that help technical and non-technical stakeholders make product and design decisions.
- Apply AI tools responsibly to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis while developing transparent, repeatable AI-assisted research workflows
Additional Job Responsibilities
- Identify behavioral research opportunities and carry them from initial questions through analysis, recommendations, and product decisions.
- Integrate behavioral insights into product planning, design critiques, experimentation, and post-launch reviews.
- Partner with designers to translate findings into design recommendations and evaluate whether experience changes achieve the intended results.
- Convert effective research methods, templates, dashboards, and study designs into repeatable tools and processes in partnership with the Behavioral Data & Product team.
- Create case studies and practical examples that demonstrate how behavioral data and Amplitude can support product decisions.
- Share knowledge about behavioral analytics methods and contribute to research standards and practices across the organization.
Expected Education & Experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in quantitative UX research or behavioral data science, with demonstrated depth in behavioral data and hands-on experience in experimentation.
- Proficiency in SQL and R or Python, and in statistical methods such as significance testing and modeling.
- Experience with product analytics platforms, specifically Amplitude.
- Experience using AI tools in everyday research practice to improve the speed, scale, and quality of behavioral and survey data analysis and develop responsible, repeatable AI-assisted workflows.
- Working competence in qualitative methods, including user interviewing, usability testing, and concept testing.
- Working understanding of usability heuristics and core design principles, including information hierarchy, chart selection, and progressive disclosure, applied to dashboards, reports, and self-service tools.
- Demonstrated ability to move between technical rigor and clear stakeholder communication.
- Portfolio or work samples demonstrating problem framing, study design, analysis, and how findings shaped product decisions.
- Academic or professional background in behavioral science, behavioral economics, the social sciences, or a related field preferred.
- Experience in healthcare, enterprise software, or other complex operational domains preferred.
Expected Compensation
The base salary range shown reflects the full range for this role from minimum to maximum. At athenahealth, base pay depends on multiple factors, including job-related experience, relevant knowledge and skills, how your qualifications compare to others in similar roles, and geographical market rates. Base pay is only one part of our competitive Total Rewards package - depending on role eligibility, we offer both short and long-term incentives by way of an annual discretionary bonus plan, variable compensation plan, and equity plans.
About athenahealth
Our vision: In an industry that becomes more complex by the day, we stand for simplicity. We offer IT solutions and expert services that eliminate the daily hurdles preventing healthcare providers from focusing entirely on their patients — powered by our vision to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.
Our company culture: Our talented employees — or athenistas, as we call ourselves — spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision. We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives. We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count. Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way. That's one reason we prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our business, from attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce to maintaining an inclusive environment for athenistas, our partners, customers and the communities where we work and serve.
What we can do for you:
Along with health and financial benefits, athenistas enjoy perks specific to each location, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces — some offices even welcome dogs.
We also encourage a better work-life balance for athenistas with our flexibility. While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time. With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.
In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons. We provide athenistas with a company culture based on learning, the support of an engaged team, and an inclusive environment where all employees are valued.
Learn more about our culture and benefits here: athenahealth.com/careers
https://www.athenahealth.com/careers/equal-opportunity
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What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in quantitative research analyst jobs across Massachusetts.
- Advanced degree in statistics, mathematics, finance, or a closely related quantitative field
- Proficiency in Python, R, or MATLAB for data analysis and model development
- Experience building and validating statistical or machine learning models on large datasets
- Strong background in probability theory, stochastic processes, or econometric methods
- Ability to communicate quantitative findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Familiarity with financial instruments, risk metrics, or clinical trial data depending on sector
Quantitative Research Analyst Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a quantitative research analyst in Massachusetts?
Most quantitative research analyst roles in Massachusetts require at minimum a master's degree, and many demand a PhD, in mathematics, statistics, financial engineering, computer science, or a related field. There is no state-issued license for the role itself, but analysts working in investment management may need FINRA registration through their employer. Massachusetts employers recruiting from programs at Harvard, MIT, and Northeastern tend to weight graduate coursework and research projects heavily alongside technical skills.
How much do quantitative research analysts make in Massachusetts?
Quantitative research analysts in Massachusetts earn a median of about $99,970 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $61,710 for the lowest 10% to over $155,150 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire quantitative research analysts in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring quantitative research analysts in Massachusetts right now include HarbourVest, Konovo, and CAPTRUST, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Massachusetts's concentration of asset managers, insurance firms, and life sciences companies means openings appear across a broad range of quantitative disciplines beyond pure finance.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most quantitative research analyst jobs?
The Massachusetts cities with the most quantitative research analyst openings are Boston and Westwood. Boston and Cambridge dominate because they anchor the state's financial services corridor and house major research universities, while suburban hubs like Waltham and Burlington attract asset managers and biotech firms that have established campuses outside the city core.
Are there remote quantitative research analyst jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, and more than most fields, given that the work is largely desk-based and model-driven. About 71% of quantitative research analyst openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting how well the role adapts to distributed work. Strategy development and statistical modeling tend to be the most remote-friendly functions, while roles requiring access to proprietary trading infrastructure or laboratory data systems are more likely to require on-site presence.
How can I get hired as a quantitative research analyst in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a graduate research assistantship or internship at a Massachusetts institution, since firms like Fidelity and State Street recruit heavily from MIT, Harvard, and Boston University graduate programs and run structured analyst rotations for new graduates. Adjacent roles in data analysis, actuarial support, or research programming at Boston-area insurance companies and biotech firms also convert well. Building a portfolio of quantitative projects and completing the CFA Level I exam demonstrates analytical commitment and gives candidates a concrete edge in screening.
Where can I find and apply to quantitative research analyst jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to quantitative research analyst jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current Massachusetts openings across financial services, life sciences, and technology sectors. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly from the listings on this page.
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