Data Scientist Job at Mercor, New York, NY

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  • Mercor
  • New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description: AI Task Evaluation & Statistical Analysis Specialist

Role Overview

Were seeking a data-driven analyst to conduct comprehensive failure analysis on AI agent performance across finance-sector tasks. Youll identify patterns root causes and systemic issues in our evaluation framework by analyzing task performance across multiple dimensions (task types file types criteria etc.).

Key Responsibilities

  • Statistical Failure Analysis : Identify patterns in AI agent failures across task components (prompts rubrics templates file types tags)

  • Root Cause Analysis : Determine whether failures stem from task design rubric clarity file complexity or agent limitations

  • Dimension Analysis : Analyze performance variations across finance sub-domains file types and task categories

  • Reporting & Visualization : Create dashboards and reports highlighting failure clusters edge cases and improvement opportunities

  • Quality Framework : Recommend improvements to task design rubric structure and evaluation criteria based on statistical findings

  • Stakeholder Communication : Present insights to data labeling experts and technical teams

Required Qualifications

  • Statistical Expertise : Strong foundation in statistical analysis hypothesis testing and pattern recognition

  • Programming : Proficiency in Python (pandas scipy matplotlib/seaborn) or R for data analysis

  • Data Analysis : Experience with exploratory data analysis and creating actionable insights from complex datasets

  • AI/ML Familiarity : Understanding of LLM evaluation methods and quality metrics

  • Tools : Comfortable working with Excel data visualization tools (Tableau/Looker) and SQL

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with AI/ML model evaluation or quality assurance

  • Background in finance or willingness to learn finance domain concepts

  • Experience with multi-dimensional failure analysis

  • Familiarity with benchmark datasets and evaluation frameworks

  • 2-4 years of relevant experience

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