
Work-From-Home Quantitative ML & Competitive Data Science Specialist — Frontier Model Training | Frontier AI Specialist
Full Job Description
RemoteWork Talent Agency has an immediate remote opening for a Work-From-Home Quantitative ML & Competitive Data Science Specialist — Frontier Model Training | Frontier AI Specialist earning $60 - $120/hour. In this flexible work-from-home engagement (open to candidates in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, and Ireland), you will apply practical mastery of ML Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Coding to stress-test large language models, verify factual rigor, and build gold-standard evaluation datasets.
Key Duties & Project Scope
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Candidate Requirements
- Compensation Band: $60 - $120/hour
- Work Location: Remote (100% Remote / Asynchronous Flexibility)
- Available Openings: 50 open positions
- Core Competencies: ML Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Coding
- 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.
- Strong coding experience, particularly in Python, including testing, debugging, and working with unfamiliar code
Pay Rate & Contract Overview
- Compensation Rate: $60 - $120/hour (contract specialist remuneration)
- Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
- Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
- Core Competencies: ML Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Coding
- Hiring Agency: RemoteWork Talent Agency
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