Competitive Data Scientist
- Canada
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- Job type
- Contract
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Competitive Data Scientist [$60 - $120/hour]
Role Responsibilities
Nice to Have
Role Responsibilities
- Build reproducible environments, prepare relevant data and dependencies, and implement reference solutions
- Develop tests and evaluation criteria that reliably distinguish correct solutions from incomplete or flawed approaches
- Run coding agents against tasks, investigate their failures, and refine the tasks based on observed behavior
- Identify implementation errors, flawed assumptions, data leakage, and other issues that affect correctness
- Document task requirements, solution reasoning, and verification steps clearly
- Demonstrated experience in data science, ML, quantitative modeling, or relevant research competitions. (Kaggle, DrivenData, etc.)
- Strong problem-solving ability and a clear understanding of the methods you use
- Practical programming ability sufficient to implement and verify your own solutions
Nice to Have
- Strong coding experience, particularly in Python, including testing, debugging, and working with unfamiliar code
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Responsibilities
Build reproducible task environments, prepare data and dependencies, implement reference solutions, and create tests that distinguish correct solutions from flawed ones. Evaluate coding agents, investigate failures, refine tasks, identify correctness issues, and document requirements, reasoning, and verification steps.
Requirements
Candidates should have demonstrated experience in data science, machine learning, quantitative modeling, or relevant research competitions, along with strong problem-solving ability and practical programming skills. Python experience, including testing, debugging, and working with unfamiliar code, is an advantage.
Skills
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Quantitative Modeling
- Python Programming
- Problem-Solving
- Reproducible Environments
- Data Preparation
- Testing
- Evaluation Criteria
- Debugging
- Coding Agents
- Data Leakage Detection
- Solution Verification
- Research Competitions
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
- Science & Research
Keywords
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Quantitative Modeling
- Research Competitions
- Kaggle
- DrivenData
- Zindi
- AIcrowd
- Numerai
- DataSource.ai
- CodaLab
- Codabench
- Python
- Reproducible Environments
- Data Preparation
- Dependencies
- Reference Solutions
- Testing
- Evaluation Criteria
- Coding Agents
- Debugging
- Data Leakage
- Correctness Verification
- Task Documentation