🕒 7 days ago
Design and validate rigorous, multi-step computational life sciences tasks that test whether AI agents can inspect scientific data, write and run code, troubleshoot workflows, and produce verifiable results.
Statistics Expert (PhD)
📅 Sep 11, 2025
📍 🇺🇸 United States - Remote💰 $60 - $80 / hour🎹 Mid-level🔩 Research Scientist📢 🇬🇧 English Required💼 Full-Time
StatisticsStatistical Problem DesignStatistical Problem EvaluationResearch
📜 Description
- Guide research teams in closing knowledge gaps in statistics.
- Help improve AI model performance in the statistics domain.
- Design and evaluate complex statistical problems and solutions.
- Provide clear written feedback.
🛠️ Requirements
- You’d be guiding research teams to close knowledge gaps and enhance AI model performance in the Statistics domain.
- You will be designing and evaluating complex statistical problems and solutions while providing clear, written feedback.
- 🎓 Education: PhD in Statistics from a top US, UK, Canadian, or European university
- 💼 Work experience: 2+ years of academic (research/teaching) or professional (scientist, researcher, or engineer) experience
- 📝 Skills: Strong attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and proficiency in English
- 📍 Location: Remote (must be based in the US, UK, Canada, or Europe)
✨ Benefits
- 🕒 Time commitment: 15–20 hours per week (with the possibility of increasing to ~40)
- ⏳ Project duration: Minimum 1–2 months, with rolling extensions
- 🌍 Fully remote, asynchronous work offering flexibility and autonomy
- 📑 You will be engaged as an independent contractor and paid weekly via Stripe Connect
Full job description
This role is for one of Weekday's clients.
We are currently helping hire for one of the leading AI labs (via one of our partners); supporting them in training their AI models.
Have you ever wondered how LLMs generate expert-level answers and wanted to contribute to their improvement? There are important knowledge gaps in specialized areas like Statistics, and we need your expertise to help make these models much stronger (and in turn, expand human understanding of these fields).
Requirements
What exactly would you do?
- You’d be guiding research teams to close knowledge gaps and enhance AI model performance in the Statistics domain.
- You will be designing and evaluating complex statistical problems and solutions while providing clear, written feedback.
Requirements
🎓 Education: PhD in Statistics from a top US, UK, Canadian, or European university
💼 Work experience: 2+ years of academic (research/teaching) or professional (scientist, researcher, or engineer) experience
📝 Skills: Strong attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and proficiency in English
📍 Location: Remote (must be based in the US, UK, Canada, or Europe)
Benefits
💵 Compensation: $60 to $80 per hour
🕒 Time commitment: 15–20 hours per week (with the possibility of increasing to ~40)
⏳ Project duration: Minimum 1–2 months, with rolling extensions
🌍 Fully remote, asynchronous work offering flexibility and autonomy
📑 You will be engaged as an independent contractor and paid weekly via Stripe Connect
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