Remote Data Science & AI Content Specialist (Contract)

Alignerr Corp.; Sydney; Remote; AUD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Async-friendly

Contract renewal potential

Job summary

Alignerr seeks a Data Science Expert - AI Content Specialist to design challenging data science problems and author gold-standard solutions. You will audit AI-generated code, evaluate models with major libraries, and help improve AI reasoning by identifying failures.

The role is remote, contract-based, and part of Alignerr's research collaboration efforts. MD/PhD or current PhD in data science, statistics, CS, or related field preferred, with strong ML, NLP, and big data tooling knowledge.

Qualifications

• Must hold or be pursuing a Master’s or PhD in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Statistics, or Computer Science.
• Solid foundation in supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and NLP.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly in writing.
• Attention to detail in reviewing code, math notation, and statistics.
• Self-directed, capable of working independently on technical tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design advanced, domain-rich data science challenges across ML topics and optimization.
• Author rigorous, step-by-step solutions with Python/R scripts, SQL queries, and derivations.
• Audit model outputs using major libraries (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow) for correctness and efficiency.
• Identify and document AI reasoning failures (data leakage, overfitting, class imbalance) and provide feedback.
• Record failure modes to help teams build more robust AI systems.

Skills

Data science

Machine learning

Python

R

SQL

Education

Master's/PhD in data science/statistics/cs

Tools

Scikit-Learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Spark/Hadoop

NLP

Job description

Alignerr seeks a Data Science Expert - AI Content Specialist to design challenging data science problems and author gold-standard solutions. You will audit AI-generated code, evaluate models with major libraries, and help improve AI reasoning by identifying failures.

The role is remote, contract-based, and part of Alignerr's research collaboration efforts. MD/PhD or current PhD in data science, statistics, CS, or related field preferred, with strong ML, NLP, and big data tooling knowledge.