Behavioral Modeling Specialist
Maps the biases the platforms exploit — and designs the psychological architecture that undoes them.
Role Summary
The Behavioral Modeling Specialist maps the cognitive biases and behavioral vulnerabilities that extractive platforms weaponize, building the formal models in the Bias & Model Vault that underpin every counter-pattern the directorate deploys. The role designs the psychological architecture of remediation — modeling how a compulsion loop forms, where its leverage points sit, and what intervention sequence breaks it without substituting a new dependency. The models this specialist builds are the blueprints the Counter-Pattern Engineers fabricate from; a wrong model is a counter-pattern aimed at the wrong part of the brain.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, formalize, and maintain behavioral models of cognitive biases exploited by dark patterns, storing each in the Bias & Model Vault with full theoretical provenance.
- Design the psychological architecture of counter-patterns — identifying intervention points, sequence, dosage, and withdrawal curves for each remediation approach.
- Collaborate with Technique Researchers to map each indexed dark pattern to the specific biases it exploits, ensuring the Technique Index and Bias & Model Vault stay cross-linked.
- Conduct literature reviews and original research on compulsion-loop formation, habit-breaking interventions, and digital-dependency mechanisms.
- Validate behavioral models against GOVERNOR telemetry and counter-op outcome data, updating models when field evidence contradicts theory.
- Advise the Science Director and Counter-Pattern Engineers on the ethical boundaries of behavioral intervention — distinguishing remediation from re-manipulation.
Required Qualifications
- Graduate training in cognitive psychology, behavioral science, neuroscience, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated ability to formalize cognitive-bias models into testable, operationalizable frameworks.
- Research experience in persuasion, habit formation, or behavioral-change intervention design.
- Ethical reasoning discipline to navigate the line between liberating attention and redirecting it.
Preferred Qualifications
- Published research in cognitive bias, decision architecture, or digital-wellbeing intervention.
- Experience with computational modeling of human behavior or agent-based simulation.
- Familiarity with the directorate's Potency Level framework and the Bias & Model Vault schema.
Certifications & Clearances
Curricula are delivered through the Training Academy; currency is tracked on the HR training matrix.
Hazard & Safety
Compensation
Mission-driven S-3 band with research stipend and full medical including cognitive-wellness coverage.
Career Path
Advances to Science Director (S-5) or laterals into Technique Research for the taxonomic track.
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