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MLOps Engineer, LLM Performance (Kernels, Profiling, Serving)
$90.0-$120.0 / hourly. A fully remote MLOps engineering role with a leading AI lab, focusing on large language model infrastructure. You'll design technical tasks covering kernel optimisation, performance profiling, distributed debugging and inference serving, then evaluate solutions and provide expert feedback. Requires 2+ years in ML systems, production experience with JAX or PyTorch, and hands-on work with modern accelerators. This is a 40-hour full-time engagement via Mercor.
SQL Team Lead
$70/hr. SME Careers seeks a SQL Quality Assurance Lead to oversee trainer performance and output quality across AI-training database projects. You'll review AI-generated SQL queries and explanations, provide written feedback against project rubrics, mentor remote contributors, and maintain documentation. Requires three years' SQL experience, strong fundamentals, and familiarity with multiple database platforms. Note: no immediate project; qualified candidates will be contacted when opportunities align.
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SQL Engineer
$50 / hr. Remote contractor role via SME Careers evaluating and improving SQL queries, database designs, and data-processing logic generated by AI systems. You'll review solutions for accuracy and clarity, identify methodology errors, write technical explanations and reference solutions, and rank AI responses. Requires bachelor's degree in a technical field, 7+ years production SQL experience, expert-level SQL proficiency including window functions and query optimisation, hands-on data modelling and ETL knowledge, and C1 English capability.
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SQL & Analytics Engineer Expert
$60–$100/hr. AfterQuery seeks analytics engineers to author and grade SQL scenarios that frontier AI labs use to evaluate model reasoning. You'll create realistic data problems from raw tables through tested models, write reference answers explaining modelling decisions, and assess model output for correctness and efficiency. Suited to experienced practitioners with strong SQL fundamentals and hands-on warehouse expertise.
Data Engineering Expert
$60–$100/hr. AfterQuery seeks data engineering professionals with 1–3 years' experience for remote, asynchronous project work over 2–3 weeks. You'll design and troubleshoot data pipelines, build cloud infrastructure, and document technical solutions using tools such as Dbt, Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Redshift. Work 10–20 hours weekly on accepted projects. Suited to engineers seeking portfolio-building experience with a Y Combinator-backed startup.
SWE Bench – Data Engineer/Data Scientist
Turing seeks experienced data engineers and scientists to build benchmark evaluation tasks for AI systems. You'll design data pipelines, process structured and unstructured datasets, and create real-world coding challenges in Python. The role suits candidates with 3+ years' experience in data-focused roles, strong fundamentals in machine learning, and ability to write maintainable code. Three-month contractor position, minimum 20 hours weekly with 4-hour PST overlap.
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Senior Data Scientist and Data Engineering Experts
$120.0-$180.0 / hourly. Mercor seeks senior data scientists and engineers from top technology, quantitative or financial firms to design realistic tasks and evaluation criteria for frontier AI models. The role involves writing SQL and Python workflows, statistical modelling, machine learning pipelines, and experimentation documentation. Candidates need 4+ years' experience at mid-senior level, strong English communication skills, and ability to provide evidence-based, reproducible assessments. Applicants must hold a bachelor's degree from an English-speaking country.