Senior Data Analyst

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Analytics & Business Intelligence Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$100/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Build long-horizon analytics tasks with deterministic rubrics to evaluate agent performance against verifiable ground truth.
• Develop scenarios for ad-hoc analysis, experimentation, and measurement with checkable answers and no subjective judgment.
• Create SQL queries and A/B test readouts with defined metrics, ensuring accuracy and alignment with ground-truth values.
• Design and implement funnel and cohort analyses with expected numerical outputs.
• Work independently and asynchronously to focus on challenging scenarios and improve AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• BS or MS in a quantitative field.
• 3+ years as a data/BI analyst at a data-mature company.
• Expertise in advanced SQL, experimentation and A/B testing, metric design, and BI-tool development (Looker, Tableau, Mode, Hex, Metabase).
• Ability to read and produce analytics artifacts: SQL queries, dashboards, experiment readouts, metric specs.
• Clear written communication to articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.

Compensation & Legal

• Hourly contractor
• Strong contributors are promoted based on task quality and throughput.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [email protected]

PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.