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Mercor Posted 30+ days ago

Data Scientist

Location

San Francisco

On-site

Contract

Permanent

Full-time

Salary

$160–500k

Gross per year

Experience

Not specified

Job summary

Responsibilities

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.

Tech stack

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