Research Student
Boston, MAResearch$15–24.04/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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A Research Student is trained through a mentor in the principles, conduct, and interpretation of research alongside an educational program. The role involves learning and conducting routine tests, using standard research equipment, collecting study data, maintaining records, and summarizing and interpreting results under supervision. The student may also attend research-related lectures and conferences and conduct literature searches.
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When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.
Job Summary: A Research Student will be trained through a mentor in the principles, conduct and interpretation of research in conjunction with a related or unrelated educational program.
Job Description:
Learns and conducts routine tests following established procedures, which may include assays, DNA sequencing, tissue culture, protein purification, Southern blotting, PCR analysis, electrophoresis, and/or chromatography. Learns and uses standard research equipment such as microscopes, incubators, autoclaves, centrifuges. Collects basic study data through monitoring devices and maintains daily logs/basic records of methodologies and test results. With supervision, using databases, may summarize data and interpret results using descriptive statistics and basic hypothesis testing. Attends Medical Center lectures regarding all safety requirements/conditions. Attends courses, lectures, and conferences to further own knowledge of research. May perform literature searches and library investigations as they relate to the research.
Pay Range:
$15.00 - $24.04
The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
How this job compares
Set against the 4,695 open Researcher jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$15–24.04/hr
- Massachusetts median$23–32/hr33 hourly ranges
- US median$25–36/hr348 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $19.52/hr, is 32% below the Massachusetts median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Researcher hourly ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 283 open Researcher jobs in Massachusetts and 4,695 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Harvard University66 open
- Boston University30 open
- Mass General Brigham21 open
- Experience
- Researcher postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (1,517 postings).
- Education
- 3,146 of the 4,695 open Researcher jobs (67%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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