Remote Data Scientist — Build Real-World AI Tasks

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

Job summary

MissionHires is seeking a detail-oriented Data Scientist contractor to design and evaluate AI-driven data-science tasks. You will create realistic workflows, prompts, datasets, and rubrics, then assess frontier AI outputs against professional standards.

Applicants should have 2+ years of applied data science experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and the ability to work independently in a fully remote, contract role. Flexible scheduling with minimum 10 hours per week is offered.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional applied data science experience.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Ability to own multi-step analyses end-to-end.
• Excellent written and verbal English.
• Experience evaluating AI outputs and creating rubrics.

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, and deliverables.
• Compare model outputs from identical prompts and document strengths/weaknesses.
• Write detailed grading rubrics and tests for data-quality and interpretation.
• Identify concrete failures like data leakage, confounding, and incorrect joins.
• Contribute expertise across analytics, ML, experimentation, and data-engineering-adjacent work.
• Review and refine tasks developed by other experts.
• Propose, build, and run complete task scenarios with feedback revisions.

Skills

Data science experience

Python/SQL

English fluency

Independent contributor

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's in quantitative field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Claude

ChatGPT

Job description

MissionHires is seeking a detail-oriented Data Scientist contractor to design and evaluate AI-driven data-science tasks. You will create realistic workflows, prompts, datasets, and rubrics, then assess frontier AI outputs against professional standards.

Applicants should have 2+ years of applied data science experience, strong Python/SQL skills, and the ability to work independently in a fully remote, contract role. Flexible scheduling with minimum 10 hours per week is offered.