R QA Lead for Remote Data-Analysis Projects Contract
Listing checked September 4, 2026 · pay as published by SME Careers
Overview
This remote, hourly contractor role places you in charge of R quality assurance for AI training initiatives focused on data-analysis workflows. You will review R code, assess statistical reasoning, and verify reproducible workflows against client guidelines. Collaborate with remote trainers, analysts, and QA peers, delivering precise feedback and maintaining onboarding materials. Your guidance helps ensure clear documentation and standardized outputs that meet client expectations.
What You'll Do9
- 1Spot-check R programming outputs and data-analysis steps for accuracy.
- 2Review R code, statistical explanations, visualizations, data-wrangling steps, and modeling workflows.
- 3Communicate project updates and R-specific standards on Discord.
- 4Answer trainer and QA questions about R syntax, packages, reproducibility, and rubric interpretation.
- 5Direct message inactive contributors and track activation milestones.
- 6Create and maintain R documentation, style guides, examples, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
- 7Lead onboarding calls and training sessions for R contributors.
- 8Flag misleading statistical claims, invalid methods, non-reproducible workflows, or hallucinated packages/functions.
- 9Suggest improvements to QA processes based on recurring gaps.
Requirements10
- 1Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in statistics, data science, mathematics, computer science, economics, biology, social sciences, or a related quantitative field.
- 2Strong English proficiency to follow guidelines and provide clear feedback.
- 33+ years of hands-on experience with R for data analysis, statistics, or research.
- 4Deep knowledge of R syntax, data frames, vectors, functions, lists, factors, missing data, tidyverse, base R, statistical modeling, and visualization.
- 5Ability to identify issues such as incorrect statistical assumptions, invalid package usage, non-reproducible code, data leakage, flawed transformations, hallucinated functions, or misleading charts.
- 6Familiarity with dplyr, tidyr, ggplot2, readr, stringr, purrr, data.table, Shiny, R Markdown/Quarto, caret/tidymodels, lme4, survival, Git, and reproducible workflows is preferred.
- 7Experience leading remote teams of trainers, analysts, reviewers, educators, or QAs is strongly preferred.
- 8Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and PM systems.
- 9Highly organized with ability to maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
- 10Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.
Who Should Apply
Senior R practitioners with remote-team leadership and QA experience are ideal. You excel at diagnosing statistical validity issues, ensuring reproducible code, and delivering precise, rule-based feedback. You thrive coordinating distributed contributors via Discord and maintaining comprehensive R documentation. Candidates without substantial remote leadership or with weaker English communication may struggle to meet expectations. If you have strong R expertise and a background in AI training contexts, you will score highly for this contract role.
Salary Insight
Pay is $65 per hour. This rate aligns with mid-senior level, remote QA leadership in data science and AI training contexts.
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