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Data Science Intern

Mercor· Engineering
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Data Science Intern at Mercor, a fast-moving, metrics-driven engineering team shaping decisions across the company. You’ll analyze production-ready datasets, ship insights, and work closely with a mentor on analyses, tooling, and experiments.

Responsibilities

  • Defining north-star metrics and feature-level KPIs for ranking, interview analytics and payouts
  • Designing A/B tests and quasi-experiments and turning results into product decisions within days
  • Building dashboards and lightweight data models so teams can self-serve insights
  • Instrumenting events with engineers and improving data quality, observability and latency
  • Prototyping models, from baselines to gradient boosting, to improve matching and scoring
  • Evaluating LLM-powered systems through rubric design, human-in-the-loop experiments and guardrail testing

Qualifications

  • Pursuing a degree in a quantitative field (graduating 2026–2028).
  • Strong fundamentals in statistics, SQL, and Python.
  • Experience with experiment design, causal reasoning, and data analysis.
  • Ability to communicate clearly with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
  • Curiosity about LLM evaluation, retrieval, ranking, or marketplace dynamics (a plus).
  • Excited to work in person and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Required:StatisticsSQLPythonExperiment design

Benefits

  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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