Data Science Expert - Fully Remote

Role Overview

Data Science Expert (AI & Data Science) — Fully Remote contract role with a commitment of 40 hours/week. You will guide research/engineering efforts, create ground-truth solutions, and evaluate AI agent outputs using rigorous frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Guide research and engineering teams to close knowledge gaps in AI and data science domains.
• Identify and articulate nuances that separate expert reasoning from surface-level responses.
• Design challenging agentic tasks grounded in real-world ML, data science, data engineering, and software workflows.
• Write accurate, well-documented solutions to serve as ground truth.
• Evaluate AI agent outputs against your solutions.
• Provide detailed written feedback covering correctness, efficiency, and reasoning quality.
• Develop and refine evaluation frameworks and rubrics for agentic behavior on AI/data science tasks.
• Collaborate with other SMEs to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.

Requirements (Must-Have)

• 3+ years of research, academic, or industry experience across ML, data science, software engineering, computer science, statistics, or other STEM fields.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in programming, data analysis, ML modeling, statistical methods, and/or computational methods.
• Ability to commit to 40 hours/week on weekdays for the duration of the engagement.
• Strong written communication and ability to clearly explain technical decisions.

Preferred

• Experience with data annotation/labeling, evaluation, or human feedback collection.
• Experience with LLMs, AI systems, or agentic workflows; familiarity with agentic frameworks.

Application Process

• Upload resume.
• Complete an AI interview based on your resume, using Mercor’s application resources platform.