Data Scientist

About the Company

Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion.

Responsibilities

• Define north-star and feature-level metrics for ranking, interview analytics, and payouts systems
• Design and run A/B tests and quasi-experiments to drive product decisions
• Build source-of-truth dashboards and lightweight data models for team self-service
• Instrument events with engineers to improve data quality and latency
• Prototype models from baselines to gradient boosting to improve matching and scoring
• Help evaluate LLM-powered agents through rubrics and human-in-the-loop studies

Requirements

• 0–2 years in data science, analytics, or a similar quantitative role
• BS/BA in a quantitative field or equivalent work experience
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for analysis
• Comfort with experiment design and causal thinking
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to engineers, PMs, and leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with dbt
• Experience with dashboarding tools like Hex, Mode, or Looker
• Knowledge of marketplace, search, or recommendation metrics
• Experience with LLM or agent evaluation