[Hiring] Data Scientist - AI Trainer @Mercor

Role Description

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: Data Science Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $70–$120/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic, end-to-end data workflows that challenge today's best models.
• Grade agent performance on complex scenarios in analytics and business intelligence.
• Build scenarios involving SQL analysis, dashboard builds, and A/B test design.
• Develop ETL/ELT pipelines, dbt models, and data quality monitoring.
• Work on warehouse schema design and Airflow/Dagster DAGs.
• Collaborate asynchronously and work independently with a focus on long sessions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years as an analytics engineer, BI analyst, data scientist, or data engineer.
• Working fluency in at least two of: advanced SQL, dbt, warehousing (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift), experimentation (A/B tests), pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), metric modeling, Python for analysis.
• Comfortable with data artifacts: SQL queries, dbt models, experiment readouts, dashboard specs, schema diagrams.
• Clear written communication; able to articulate reasoning and data decisions step by step.
• Drawn to long-horizon, challenging problem sets rather than one-off microtasks.

Requirements

• Hourly contractor
• Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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