Data Scientist

Employer: Mercor

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Salary: $120.00 to $180.00 daily

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: Senior Data Scientist and Data Engineering Experts Type: Contract Compensation: $120?$180/hour Location: Remote Role Responsibilities: Design realistic, challenging data science and data engineering tasks, including exploratory analyses, statistical modeling, machine learning pipelines, ETL, and data pipeline design. Illustrate "what good looks like" by writing precise, task-specific criteria for data science and data engineering deliverables. Apply consistent, evidence-based judgment to ensure assessments are reproducible and defensible. Take structured feedback from senior reviewers and iterate on submitted work. Train and evaluate frontier AI models using expertise from top technology, quantitative, or financial firms. Work independentl