Data Scientist | Remote

• Build reproducible environments, prepare relevant data and dependencies, and implement reference solutions.
• Develop tests and evaluation criteria that reliably distinguish correct solutions from incomplete or flawed approaches.
• Run coding agents against tasks, investigate their failures, and refine the tasks based on observed behavior.
• Identify implementation errors, flawed assumptions, data leakage, and other issues that affect correctness.
• Document task requirements, solution reasoning, and verification steps clearly.

Position: Competitive Data Scientist

Type: Contract

Compensation: $60 $120/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 10-40 hrs/week

Role Responsibilities

• Build reproducible environments, prepare relevant data and dependencies, and implement reference solutions.
• Develop tests and evaluation criteria that reliably distinguish correct solutions from incomplete or flawed approaches.
• Run coding agents against tasks, investigate their failures, and refine the tasks based on observed behavior.
• Identify implementation errors, flawed assumptions, data leakage, and other issues that affect correctness.
• Document task requirements, solution reasoning, and verification steps clearly.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in data science, ML, quantitative modeling, or relevant research competitions.
• Strong problem-solving ability and a clear understanding of the methods you use.
• Practical programming ability sufficient to implement and verify your own solutions.
• Relevant competition platforms include Kaggle, DrivenData, Zindi, AIcrowd, Numerai, DataSource.ai, and CodaLab/Codabench.