Remote Part-Time Data Scientist — Create & Score AI Tasks

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible schedule

Independent contractor

Job summary

OpenTrain AI is seeking experienced data scientists to craft and evaluate challenging tasks for coding agents. You’ll design data science problems, assemble data and environments, and write reference solutions with tests and scoring rules.

Work remotely on your own schedule, paid per accepted task. You’ll prepare datasets, dependencies, and run requirements; verify reference implementations; set up evaluation tests; and guide coding agents through debugging and verification steps.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English.
• Strong Python skills for testing and debugging unfamiliar code.
• Background in data science, machine learning, quantitative modeling, or research competitions.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the execution setup, including the required data, dependencies, and run requirements.
• Write and verify reference implementations for each data science task.
• Set up tests and scoring rules to distinguish complete, correct work from partial or flawed approaches.
• Have coding agents attempt the tasks, trace failures, and record the checks used.

Skills

Python

Testing & debugging

Data science background

English fluency

Tools

CodaLab

Codabench

Kaggle

Numerai

Zindi

AIcrowd

DataSource.ai

DrivenData

Job description

OpenTrain AI is seeking experienced data scientists to craft and evaluate challenging tasks for coding agents. You’ll design data science problems, assemble data and environments, and write reference solutions with tests and scoring rules.

Work remotely on your own schedule, paid per accepted task. You’ll prepare datasets, dependencies, and run requirements; verify reference implementations; set up evaluation tests; and guide coding agents through debugging and verification steps.