Data Scientist Expert

What you'll do

You turn the analysis work you do every day into evaluation material. The ad lists experiments, metrics, forecasting, segmentation and predictive modeling as source topics. You author a realistic problem, work it through to a reference answer with the reasoning behind each step, and catch analysis mistakes that look reasonable but only a practitioner would spot. The problems feed the evaluations frontier AI labs use to measure their models.

The ad is clear about who it is not for: data engineers, ML engineers and reporting-only analysts.

Who fits

• A Master's or PhD in statistics, computer science, economics, mathematics or another quantitative field
• 3+ years full time as a data scientist; internships and school do not count
• Strong SQL and Python or R
• Hands-on statistics: A/B testing, regression, causal inference or predictive modeling
• At least 10 hours a week available

Preferred: experience on a product, growth or marketplace team, experience designing and reading out experiments, and clear written English with comfort explaining an analysis step by step.

What it pays

The board shows $115/hr and the ad text states no range, so that is the figure. Payment is weekly via Stripe. The ad says it is fully remote and async with no fixed hours; it does not state a weekly minimum beyond the 10 hour requirement in the qualifications, nor does it mention monitoring software.

Worth knowing

Good:

• Work stays in your specialty and is judged on analytical judgment, not volume
• You set your own hours and scale up or down week to week
• Weekly payment
• A clear single hourly figure

Less good:

• A strict title and experience bar: three full years as a data scientist, with a graduate degree
• The ad does not describe its hiring process; AfterQuery's help centre describes an unpaid one-attempt assessment and ID verification, covered on the company page
• A fixed expectation of at least 10 hours a week

About this listing

Read from the AfterQuery Experts board on 18 October 2026, posted there on 7 October 2026 under the Data Analysis department. Qualifications and pay details are the ad's own text. Related AfterQuery roles include Biostatistics Expert and Econometrics Expert. See AfterQuery.