Remote Data Scientist for Frontier AI (Contractor)

Parailabs; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Work on cutting-edge AI projects

Job summary

Turing is seeking Data Scientists & Analysts skilled in Python to join a team advancing AI technology. You will work remotely with US-based clients to build cutting-edge AI solutions, analyze public datasets, fix bugs, and document findings.

Ideal candidates communicate clearly with researchers, express reasoning in notebooks, and contribute to model training and evaluation. This is a contractor role with flexible hours and a 1‑month engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent).
• Strong data analytics and business sense to draw meaningful insights.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Fluent English in speaking and writing.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain efficient code to train and optimize AI models.
• Conduct evaluations (Evals) to benchmark model performance and improve results.
• Rank AI model responses across domains according to criteria.
• Develop explanations and rationales for evaluations with clear reasoning.
• Lead SFT efforts, creating task-specific datasets and docs.
• Collaborate with researchers to implement RLHF and refine reward models.
• Design evaluation strategies to improve alignment with user needs and ethics.
• Create high-quality, relevant responses to enhance AI performance.
• Perform peer code and documentation reviews and provide feedback.
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve models and product features.
• Keep up with new tools and methods to improve training workflows.

Skills

Python

Data analysis

Problem solving

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s in Engineering or CS

Tools

Jupyter notebooks

Job description

Turing is seeking Data Scientists & Analysts skilled in Python to join a team advancing AI technology. You will work remotely with US-based clients to build cutting-edge AI solutions, analyze public datasets, fix bugs, and document findings.

Ideal candidates communicate clearly with researchers, express reasoning in notebooks, and contribute to model training and evaluation. This is a contractor role with flexible hours and a 1‑month engagement.