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About Mercor
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We're a leading AI data company, building the layer between human expertise and frontier models. Millions of domain experts on the platform are paid over $4 million per day to train frontier AI models. Mercor's APEX benchmark family measures AI's real-world impact on professional work. Mercor Enterprise brings this same infrastructure to Fortune 500 companies: helping companies capture how their best people actually work, translating that expertise directly back into agents.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You’ll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
What you’ll do
In your first year you’ll ship analyses and experiments that move core product metrics, match quality, time-to-hire, candidate experience, and revenue. You’ll:
Define north-star and feature-level metrics for our 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 so teams can self-serve 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.
You’ll thrive here if
You have solid fundamentals (statistics, SQL, Python) and projects you’re proud to demo. You iterate fast, frame the question, test, and ship in day, and care as much about clarity of communication as you do about p-values. Curiosity about LLM evaluation, retrieval, and ranking is a bonus; you’ll learn alongside folks who’ve shipped at Jane Street, Citadel, Databricks, and Stripe.
Qualifications
0–10 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.
Communicates crisply with engineers, PMs, and leadership; turns analysis into action.
Nice-to-haves: dbt, dashboarding (Hex/Mode/Looker), marketplace or search/recommendation metrics, LLM/agent evaluation.
Benefits
Bi-annual performance bonus structure
Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
Up to $15k Relocation bonus
$10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
$1.5K monthly stipend for meals
Free Equinox membership
$200 monthly laundry reimbursement
$200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
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Is the Data Scientist position at Mercor remote?
The Data Scientist role at Mercor does not have a confirmed remote arrangement in our data. Check the employer description for its work location.
What type of employment is the Data Scientist role?
Mercor is hiring for a full-time Data Scientist position.
Which skills are mentioned for the Data Scientist job at Mercor?
Detected skill labels include Python, LLM, SQL, Databricks. Check the employer description to distinguish required skills from preferred experience.
How do I apply for the Data Scientist position at Mercor?
You can apply for the Data Scientist role directly through Mercor's official application link provided on this page.