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

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

Must-Have

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.

Compensation & Legal

Hourly contractor
Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process (Takes 20--30 mins to complete)

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