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micro1Competitive Data Scientist
micro1 is seeking a Competitive Data Scientist for a contract position requiring approximately 15 hours per week. This fully remote role offers a flexible schedule allowing…
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micro1 is seeking a Competitive Data Scientist for a contract position requiring approximately 15 hours per week. This fully remote role offers a flexible schedule allowing contractors to choose their working days and hours, including weekends. The hourly pay rate ranges from $60 to $120. The position is suited for machine learning practitioners, applied mathematics experts, and data scientists with a background in competitive platforms such as Kaggle and DrivenData.…
Job Description
micro1 is seeking a Competitive Data Scientist for a contract position requiring approximately 15 hours per week. This fully remote role offers a flexible schedule allowing contractors to choose their working days and hours, including weekends. The hourly pay rate ranges from $60 to $120. The position is suited for machine learning practitioners, applied mathematics experts, and data scientists with a background in competitive platforms such as Kaggle and DrivenData.
In this capacity, the contractor will leverage their programming skills, mathematical reasoning, and competition background to design complex tasks that go beyond plausible answers. Responsibilities include setting up reproducible environments with necessary data and dependencies, creating verified reference solutions, and establishing robust evaluation criteria and tests to separate correct answers from flawed ones. Contractors will also test coding agents against the tasks, analyze their failure points, refine the tasks based on behavior, detect implementation errors, data leakage, and flawed assumptions, and write clear documentation for task requirements and verification steps.
Responsibilities
- Build reproducible environments by preparing data, dependencies, and reference solutions
- Develop testing and evaluation criteria to distinguish correct solutions from flawed ones
- Execute coding agents against tasks, analyze failure points, and refine tasks accordingly
- Detect implementation errors, data leakage, and flawed assumptions affecting correctness
- Document task requirements, verification steps, and solution reasoning clearly
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in data science, quantitative modeling, machine learning, or relevant research competitions such as Kaggle and DrivenData
- Strong problem-solving ability with a clear understanding of applied methods
- Practical programming skills adequate for implementing and verifying personal solutions
Qualifications
- Extensive coding experience, specifically in Python
- Proficiency in testing, debugging, and handling unfamiliar code
- Experience with platforms such as Zindi, AIcrowd, Numerai, DataSource.ai, and CodaLab or Codabench
Core Skills
Benefits
- Hourly pay rate between $60 and $120
- Flexible schedule allowing workers to choose their hours and days, including weekends
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What is the location and remote status of this job?
The posting specifies a global, fully remote location.
What is the compensation for this role?
The pay rate is between $60 and $120 per hour.
What is the employment type and weekly time commitment?
This is a contractor position requiring approximately 15 hours per week with a flexible schedule.
What background is required for applicants?
Candidates need demonstrated experience in data science, machine learning, quantitative modeling, or relevant research competitions like Kaggle and DrivenData, along with practical programming skills and strong problem-solving abilities.
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