Remote | Machine Learning & NLP Research Specialist — $75–$105/hour
24-MAG · New York, NY
$75–$105/hrfrom the description
Jul 19, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time contract role for ML and NLP specialists to support frontier AI model evaluation. Day-to-day work involves designing technically challenging ML and NLP tasks, building Python-based reference solutions, assessing model outputs, and documenting failure patterns across areas such as language understanding, generation, retrieval, and training workflows. Suits practitioners with strong hands-on Python and modern ML/NLP experience, available around 20 hours per week.
Senior level · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 380–1,950
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $122,874 (middle half $87,544–$162,374). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The posting is a part-time W-2 contingent contract (~20 hrs/week), not a full-time hire — classified as Contract accordingly.
No overall years-of-experience figure is stated; seniority is inferred as Senior from the depth of expertise described ('deep hands-on experience', frontier model evaluation, peer-review leadership) and the $75–$105/hr rate range.
Degree is listed as 'highly relevant' and equivalent professional experience is explicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX are presented as interchangeable framework options ('PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, or comparable frameworks'); PyTorch is used as the primary name with TensorFlow and JAX as alternatives. Hugging Face is emitted separately as it is a distinct platform.
The Ideal Profile section uses hedged language ('may have', 'familiarity with') throughout, so all skills listed there are treated as preferred rather than hard gates, with the exception of Python, which is explicitly stated as required in the Contract Details section.
The 'Nice to Have' section skills (fine-tuning, RAG, embeddings, benchmark design, adversarial testing) are marked preferred per that heading.
SOC 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is chosen as the primary code because the core work is ML/NLP modelling, model evaluation, and failure analysis. 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the runner-up given the Python development and pipeline-building responsibilities.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): benchmark design.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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