Posted Sep 17, 2026

Senior Business Data Scientist (Contract, Remote)

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We are expanding our team of expert consultants with 15 senior business data scientists for part-time, fully-remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects pay $90–130 USD per hour, with higher rates for experts with tenure at well-recognized companies. This role involves taking realistic business problems, working through the analysis the way you would for a real stakeholder, and producing the kind of polished written deliverable that leadership would use to make a decision: findings memos, recommendation documents, metric deep-dives, and executive summaries. Visit our website to learn more: https://alignedhq.ai/for-experts Sign up to get started: https://app.alignedhq.ai/signup About Aligned At Aligned, we partner with the world's leading AI labs to push the frontier of AI knowledge in advanced fields like science, engineering, and design. Our platform matches subject-matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs. Who We're Looking For • Senior data scientists, decision scientists, and analytics managers at well-recognized companies, from high-growth startups to large enterprises • Practitioners whose work is business-focused: answering questions for finance, marketing, sales, product, or operations leaders, rather than building production ML systems • People who regularly write analytical documents that stakeholders rely on to make important decisions, and who are known for making complex findings clear and actionable • Leads or managers on insights and analytics teams who review and critique others' analyses and write-ups Minimum Qualifications • 5+ years of professional data science or advanced analytics experience in industry • Strong SQL and Python or R, with hands-on experience analyzing messy enterprise data • A track record of authoring written analyses, recommendations, or executive readouts for non-technical business audiences • Fluent English writing skills, with the ability to write in a clear, professional business voice • Graduate degree in a quantitative field is a plus