Senior Data Scientist

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: Researcher/Technical Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $50–$100/hour

Commitment: 30+ hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Design challenging, real-world STEM problems.
• Implement tasks in an agentic development environment using Python .
• Evaluate AI model reasoning and problem-solving in data science , machine learning , finance , and coding .
• Analyze model/agent behavior to diagnose gaps in reasoning and problem-solving.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to ensure task robustness and real-world applicability.
• Work independently and asynchronously to deliver reproducible and testable outputs.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Deep expertise in data science , machine learning , finance , and/or Python-based coding .
• Active or recently graduated PhD (Top 20 U.S.-based school) .
• Strong research background in frontier STEM topics.
• Ability to engage reliably for 30+ hours/week , primarily on weekdays.
• Demonstrated technical output such as high-quality open-source contributions.
• Comfort reading and reasoning about agent behavior traces.

Preferred

• Familiarity with agentic frameworks and OSS ecosystems like LangChain , MetaGPT , AutoGen , AutoGPT , CrewAI , LlamaIndex , BabyAGI , SuperAGI , CAMEL , AgentGPT , Dify .

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

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