Remote Data Science AI Trainer — Shape Safe, Accurate AI

MissionHires; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote contract

Flexible scheduling

Minimum 10 hours/week

Job summary

MissionHires seeks an experienced data-science contractor to design realistic tasks, create prep materials, and rigorously evaluate frontier AI outputs against professional standards.

You will develop end‑to‑end scenarios, datasets, and rubrics, and work with tools like Claude and ChatGPT to improve model performance. This is a fully remote contract with flexible hours and a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional applied data science experience.
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL, including writing, debugging, and explaining analysis code.
• Experience owning multi-step analyses from raw data through cleaning, modeling, interpretation, and decision making.
• Strong written and spoken English.
• Ability to evaluate results and explain issues like leakage and confounding.
• Hands-on individual contributor experience; not solely managerial.
• Familiar with AI/LLM tools such as Claude or ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic data science tasks based on professional workflows.
• Create or anonymize realistic professional files needed to complete each task.
• Run tasks through frontier AI models and evaluate analyses, code, models, SQL queries, and deliverables.
• Compare model outputs from identical prompts and document strengths/weaknesses.
• Write detailed grading rubrics and tests for deliverables.
• Identify and document concrete failures (data leakage, confounding, etc.).
• Contribute across analytics, ML, experimentation, forecasting, and data‑engineering‑adjacent work.
• Review and refine tasks developed by other SMEs.
• Propose, build, and run complete task scenarios based on real professional experience.

Skills

Python

SQL

English‑proficiency

Data analysis

Attention to detail

Cloud/file tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Job description

MissionHires seeks an experienced data-science contractor to design realistic tasks, create prep materials, and rigorously evaluate frontier AI outputs against professional standards.

You will develop end‑to‑end scenarios, datasets, and rubrics, and work with tools like Claude and ChatGPT to improve model performance. This is a fully remote contract with flexible hours and a minimum commitment of 10 hours per week.