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 DAngelo 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 positive 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 skilled 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.
Bachelors degree from an English-speaking country.
Detail-oriented consistent approach to evaluating complex work.

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