Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Mercor
Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion, focused on enhancing AI development through human intelligence. The Data Scientist role involves shipping analyses and experiments to improve product metrics and candidate experiences, working closely with engineers and product managers in a fast-paced environment.
Qualification
- 0–2 years in data science/analytics or similar; BS/BA in a quantitative field (or equivalent work).
- Strong SQL; Python for analysis; comfort with experiment design and causal thinking.
- Ability to communicate crisply with engineers, PMs, and leadership; turns analysis into action.
- Experience with dbt, dashboarding (Hex/Mode/Looker) is a plus.
- Familiarity with marketplace or search/recommendation metrics, LLM/agent evaluation is a bonus.
Responsibility
- Define north-star and feature-level metrics for ranking, interview analytics, and payouts systems.
- Design/run A/B tests and quasi-experiments; turn results into product decisions the same week.
- Build source-of-truth dashboards and lightweight data models for self-service answers.
- Instrument events with engineers; improve data quality and latency from ingestion to insight.
- Prototype quick models (from baselines to gradient boosting) to improve matching and scoring.
- Help evaluate LLM-powered agents: design rubrics, human-in-the-loop studies, and guardrail canaries.
