Kaggle-Driven Data Scientist (Remote Contractor)

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Competitive Data Scientist (Kaggle) for a 100% remote contract role. You will tackle challenging data science problems from competition platforms, design reproducible tasks, and provide reference solutions.

You will build reproducible environments, write tests, and evaluate solutions. Flexible schedule, ~15 hours per week, pay $60–$120 per hour. Open to applicants worldwide in countries the employer accepts.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in data science, ML, or quantitative modeling (competition formats).
• Strong problem-solving ability with clear understanding of methods used.
• Practical programming ability to implement and verify solutions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Data science

ML

Quantitative modeling

Python

Tools

Python

Job description

Zekai is seeking a Competitive Data Scientist (Kaggle) for a 100% remote contract role. You will tackle challenging data science problems from competition platforms, design reproducible tasks, and provide reference solutions.

You will build reproducible environments, write tests, and evaluate solutions. Flexible schedule, ~15 hours per week, pay $60–$120 per hour. Open to applicants worldwide in countries the employer accepts.