Mercor
Senior Data Scientist and Data Engineering Experts
- Pay
- $120–180/hr
- Type
- Hourly
- Location
- Remote
- Posted
- Oct 27, 2026
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About this role
Role Overview Mercor is working with a leading AI research lab on a project to improve how AI systems do real-world data science and data engineering work. We’re looking for senior data scientists and data engineers who have deep experience at top technology, quantitative or financial firms. You’ll use that expertise to train and evaluate frontier AI models. This role is open to candidates based in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Key Responsibilities Designing realistic, challenging data science and data engineering tasks, including but not limited to exploratory analyses, statistical modeling, machine learning pipelines, ETL and data pipeline design, SQL and Python workflows, and experimentation or A/B test write-ups Illustrating "what good looks like" by writing precise, task-specific criteria for data science and data engineering deliverables…
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