Data Science Intern

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Data Science Intern at Mercor, you’ll join a fast-moving, metrics-driven engineering team whose work shapes decisions across the company. You’ll analyze data that directly affects ranking, hiring efficiency, candidate experience and revenue, work with production datasets from your first week…

• Defining north-star metrics and feature-level KPIs for ranking, interview analytics and payouts
• Designing A/B tests and quasi-experiments and turning results into product decisions within days
• Building dashboards and lightweight data models so teams can self-serve insights
• Instrumenting events with engineers and improving data quality, observability and latency
• Prototyping models, from baselines to gradient boosting, to improve matching and scoring

What they're looking for

• Pursuing a degree in a quantitative field, graduating 2027 (potentially 2028)
• Strong fundamentals in statistics, SQL and Python
• Experience with experiment design, causal reasoning and data analysis
• Clear communication with engineers, product managers and leadership
• Curiosity about LLM evaluation, retrieval, ranking or marketplace dynamics

Tech stack

• SQL
• Python
• dbt