Remote Contract Statistician & Causal Inference Expert

AfterQuery; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 193,000 - 363,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work

Weekly payments via Stripe

Ongoing project work

Flexible hours

Job summary

AfterQuery is hiring statisticians and experimentation experts as contractors to author and grade causal inference and A/B testing scenarios used by frontier AI labs to evaluate model reasoning. This is a fully remote, asynchronous contractor role with no fixed hours, requiring at least 10 hours per week.

The work focuses on study design, analysis, interpretation, and rigorous critique of model outputs, with compensation ranging from $80 to $150 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in statistics, biostatistics, or a closely related quantitative field.
• 2+ years of applied statistics or experimentation experience.
• Depth in experimental design, causal inference, or A/B testing.
• Fluency in R or Python for statistical analysis.
• Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Author realistic statistics scenarios from study design through analysis and interpretation
• Write reference answers with the statistical reasoning behind each modeling choice
• Grade model output for methodological soundness and correct interpretation
• Flag analyses that read rigorous but draw invalid conclusions

Skills

Advanced statistics

Experimental design

Causal inference

A/B testing

R or Python

Education

Advanced degree in statistics/biostatistics

PhD in statistics/ econometrics (preferred)

Job description

AfterQuery is hiring statisticians and experimentation experts as contractors to author and grade causal inference and A/B testing scenarios used by frontier AI labs to evaluate model reasoning. This is a fully remote, asynchronous contractor role with no fixed hours, requiring at least 10 hours per week.

The work focuses on study design, analysis, interpretation, and rigorous critique of model outputs, with compensation ranging from $80 to $150 per hour, paid weekly via Stripe.