Competitive Data Scientist | Remote - Contract
Core
Designing and maintaining competitive data science tasks with reproducible environments and verified reference solutions for platforms like Kaggle and DrivenData.
Role type
Senior IC competitive data scientist (task design & evaluation)
Builds
Reproducible ML tasks, reference solutions, and evaluation criteria for competition platforms
Domain
Data science competitions and applied mathematics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
ML Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Coding
Preferred skills
Python (testing, debugging, unfamiliar code), experience with Kaggle/DrivenData/Zindi/AIcrowd/Numerai/DataSource.ai/CodaLab
Responsibilities
Build reproducible environments and implement reference solutions; Develop tests and evaluation criteria; Run coding agents against tasks and refine tasks based on failures; Identify implementation errors, flawed assumptions, and data leakage; Document task requirements and verification steps.