Certified Psychometric Rater (Pasadena, CA)*

Profound Research:

Profound Research seeks to drive clinical innovation by partnering with community physicians to offer clinical research as a therapeutic option to their patients. Profound enables providers with the right people and tools to launch clinical research operations, often for the first time, to offer new care pathways to patients. Profound Research is looking to grow its energetic team inspired by changing how patients and providers engage in clinical research.  

Our Mission: Improving Lives by Providing Advanced Therapeutic Options

Our Vision: Creating the Absolute Best Patient-Physician Experience in Clinical Research

Our Values:

Compassion: We value the patient-physician relationship above all else and are committed to a service-oriented approach to all interactions.

Urgency: We work hard and practice selflessness, acting swiftly and decisively to meet the needs of our patients, partners, and colleagues. 

Solution Orientation: We are relentlessly positive, and we communicate directly to efficiently identify and implement effective solutions. 

Excellence: We insist on excellence, holding ourselves accountable and empowering each other to deliver best-in-class service while maintaining the highest ethical and scientific standards. 

Profound Ethos

• Physicians are the Vanguard  
• All Decisions Improve Patient Care  
• Never Compromise Quality  
  
  
  

Responsibilities

• Administer standardized neurocognitive and psychometric assessments (e.g., ADAS-Cog, MMSE, CDR,
• MADRS, HAM-D) in accordance with study protocols and Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidelines
• Accurately score and document results in source records and electronic data capture systems
• Participate in study-specific rater training and certification to ensure inter-rater reliability
• Maintain strict adherence to blinding protocols where applicable
• Monitor participant behavior and engagement during assessments to ensure validity of results
• Collaborate with study coordinators and investigators to ensure protocol compliance and visit timelines
• Respond to data queries and support monitoring visits and audits
• Maintain high levels of confidentiality and professionalism with all participant data and interactions
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, Neuroscience, Nursing, or a related field required
• At least 1–2 years of experience in clinical research, behavioral health, or neuropsychological assessment
• Experience with cognitive/psychometric instruments used in clinical trials strongly preferred
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and observational skills
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and within a multidisciplinary team
  
  
  

Travel Requirements - local commute to site(s)

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer, standing and walking
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times
• Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes