Senior Data Scientist - AI Expert
$120 - $180 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: Senior Data Scientist and Data Engineering Experts
Type: Contract
Compensation: $120–$180/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic, challenging data science and data engineering tasks, including exploratory analyses , statistical modeling , machine learning pipelines , ETL , and data pipeline design .
- Illustrate "what good looks like" by writing precise, task-specific criteria for data science and data engineering deliverables.
- Apply consistent, evidence-based judgment to ensure assessments are reproducible and defensible.
- Take structured feedback from senior reviewers and iterate on submitted work.
- Train and evaluate frontier AI models using expertise from top technology, quantitative, or financial firms.
- Work independently and asynchronously to improve AI model performance .
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 4+ years of professional data science , data engineering , or machine learning experience.
- Strong command of Python , SQL , statistical modeling , machine learning , experimentation , and causal inference .
- Proven ability to turn messy real-world data into rigorous analyses and reliable pipelines.
- Excellent written English, including the ability to explain technical findings clearly.
- Bachelor's degree from an English-speaking country.
- Detail-oriented, consistent approach to evaluating complex work.
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