Data Scientist

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About the Role

Job Title: Data Scientist

Contract Type: Contract in Brazil

Office model - Remote

We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist focused on evaluating LLM-based products. The role is all about making sure AI outputs are high-quality, accurate, safe, and useful, using a mix of human evaluation and LLM-based evaluation approaches (LLM-as-a-Judge and LLM-as-a-Jury). You’ll work closely with SMEs, product, and engineering teams to build and scale evaluation frameworks that help improve AI products.

What You’ll Do:

• Review and evaluate LLM outputs for quality, accuracy, safety, and relevance.
• Work with SMEs on manual and human-in-the-loop evaluations.
• Use LLMs to evaluate other LLMs (LLM-as-a-Judge / LLM-as-a-Jury)
• Define simple evaluation criteria and scoring guidelines.
• Analyze results and share clear feedback with product and engineering teams.
• Help improve evaluation processes and best practices over time.

What We’re Looking For:

• 6-7 years of experience in Data Science, ML, or AI roles.
• Strong experience with LLMs and Generative AI.
• AWS: Core AWS - Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, etc.
• Hands-on experience evaluating LLM outputs (manual or automated).
• Solid Python skills for analysis and automation.
• Experience with LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, or similar.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with AI evaluation metrics or quality frameworks.
• Familiarity with LLMOps or AI monitoring.
• Interest in AI safety, reliability, and responsible AI processes.