Staff Data Scientist - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation offers a Staff Data Scientist - AI Trainer role that focuses on evaluating quantitative work, crafting training problems, and providing feedback to guide AI reasoning, with remote, flexible scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Assess AI generated quantitative outputs across statistical analyses, predictive modeling, scientific reasoning, and data driven insights for technical accuracy and real world validity, verifying methods and assumptions.
• Design and solve quantitative tasks used to train and benchmark AI systems, spanning forecasting, experimental analysis, optimization problems, and statistical inference workflows.
• Produce clear technical explanations and well documented analytical code, including reproducible notebooks and accompanying documentation.
• Deliver actionable feedback that informs iterative improvement of AI models focused on quantitative reasoning.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in a quantitative role or research environment, such as data science, statistics, economics, finance, physics, biology, epidemiology, operations research, or closely related fields.
• Experience writing and reviewing end-to-end analytical code, with comfort in scripting, data manipulation, and reproducibility practices.
• Hands-on experience applying statistical methods, building predictive models, and designing experiments (A/B tests, hypothesis testing, regression, classification, time-series forecasting).
• Fluency in English with strong written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field; Master's or PhD is a plus.
• Relevant credentials are advantageous, such as Kaggle competition rankings, AWS or GCP ML certifications, or other demonstrated expertise.

Technologies

• Kaggle
• AWS
• GCP

Benefits

• Fully remote work from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, or New Zealand.
• Flexible schedule to choose projects and working times, using your own computer from home.
• Competitive pay at 50 to 100 USD per hour, with potential bonus rates on select projects.
• Opportunity to influence the development of AI systems designed for quantitative reasoning.

Note

• Payment is processed via PayPal. We will not request money from you.
• This position is open to residents of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.