Senior Data Scientist - Risk ML at mercury
Company: mercury
Location: San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States
Workplace: Remote
Seniority: Senior
Category: Data
Compensation: ~£132k–£132k
Posted: 2026-09-02
Stack: python, rust, go, ML, llm
Role overview
In 1999, NASA lost contact with its Mars Climate Orbiter after a 9-month journey from Earth. It began its planned orbital insertion maneuver but went out of radio contact after passing behind Mars. While we may never know whether it was destroyed in the atmosphere or re-entered heliocentric space, we can draw the lesson that getting the details (in this case, units) right is critical, especially when shooting for the stars. While Mercury’s cosmic journey may be more…