ML Challenge Task Auditor
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and methodological rigor of applied machine-learning tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models.
- Pay
- Firm hourly pay: $70-$90 per hour
- Location
- Remote — United States
- Eligibility
- Remote; check the U.S. location wording
- Qualification difficulty
- Selective
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- Platform
- Mercor
- Fit category
- Research and academia
- Listing/source checked
- Sep 1, 2026
- Inventory presence checked
- Sep 28, 2026
- Apply link checked
- Aug 31, 2026
Application
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What this role involves
Evaluate the quality, correctness, and methodological rigor of applied machine-learning tasks used to train and evaluate a frontier AI lab's models. You'll assess experiment design, model-selection reasoning, and evaluation methodology — and provide clear, rubric-based written feedback.
Basic Qualifications • 3+ years hands-on applied/experimental ML (experiment design, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation methodology) • Strong grasp of data-quality rigor: leakage detection, metric gaming, and train/test/CV hygiene • Proficiency with standard ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, XGBoost) • Ability to critique ML claims against evidence and reproduce results
Preferred Qualifications
• Competition / benchmark experience (e.g., Kaggle) • Graduate research or publication record in applied ML • Prior task-grading or peer-review experience Note: this role evaluates applied/experimental ML rigor — it is not an LLM-application-building or MLOps role.
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- Professionals whose experience matches the current ML Challenge Task Auditor requirements.
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