Job Description
Role Title: Competitive Data Scientist
Pay: $60–$120/hour
Location: Global, fully remote
Job Type: Contractor (~15 hours per week)
Schedule: Flexible-you choose the hours and days you work, including weekends if desired
What You’ll Do
- Build reproducible environments, prepare relevant data and dependencies, and implement reference solutions.
- Develop tests and evaluation criteria that reliably distinguish correct solutions from incomplete or flawed approaches.
- Run coding agents against tasks, investigate their failures, and refine the tasks based on observed behavior.
- Identify implementation errors, flawed assumptions, data leakage, and other issues that affect correctness.
- Document task requirements, solution reasoning, and verification steps clearly.
What We’re Looking For
- Demonstrated experience in data science, ML, quantitative modeling, or relevant research competitions. (Kaggle, DrivenData, etc.)
- Strong problem-solving ability and a clear understanding of the methods you use.
- Practical programming ability sufficient to implement and verify your own solutions.
- Relevant competition platforms include Kaggle, DrivenData, Zindi, AIcrowd, Numerai, DataSource.ai, and CodaLab/Codabench.
Huge Pluses
- Strong coding experience, particularly in Python, including testing, debugging, and working with unfamiliar code
Additional Information: A very attractive and competitive package is offered.
Rate:
£120/hour
Location:
Othery
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
Data & Analytics
Seniority Level:
Not Specified