Machine Learning Expert
$70 - $120 per hourMercor
Job Description
Job Description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .
Position: Machine Learning Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$120/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Write modeling problems from systems you have shipped, including data, objectives, constraints, and reference answers for model grading.
- Grade model-written training and evaluation code, ensuring loss matches objectives, and evaluating set integrity.
- Flag models proposing approaches that might fail in production due to distribution shift, label noise, or incorrect metric rewards.
- Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance .
- Collaborate with AI research teams to enhance training data quality and downstream performance.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Professional experience training, evaluating, or deploying machine learning systems.
- Clear written communication skills for explaining reasoning.
- Comfort with ambiguous tasks and willingness to flag unclear instructions.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
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Vacancy posted 8 days ago
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