Materials & Engineering Specialist | $60-$90/hr Remote
Overview
This role asks you to design evaluation tasks that reveal whether an AI model can perform real expert work in your field. You will build a prompt, a data room with supporting documents, and a grading scheme, then test the model and iterate until it fails in a meaningful way. Expect to draw on your own professional experience in materials science, electrical engineering, or mechanical engineering to set the right level of difficulty. The position is remote and paid hourly, with daily onboarding and office hours available.
What You'll Do6
- 1Draft original task prompts that mirror the kind of real expert work you have handled in your own career.
- 2Assemble a data room for each task, including relevant documents, datasets, or reference materials the model can draw on.
- 3Write objective grading criteria so every answer can be scored without guesswork.
- 4Run each task against the model, observe the outputs, and identify the specific steps where it goes wrong.
- 5Revise the prompt and supporting materials after each run until the task exposes genuine limits in the model's reasoning.
- 6Coordinate with the project lead and fellow specialists to establish a shared standard for task difficulty and correctness.
Requirements5
- 1Senior-level expertise in materials science, covering metals, ceramics, composites, characterization, or additive manufacturing.
- 2Equivalent senior experience in electrical engineering, with focus on analog, RF, or power systems.
- 3Senior-level background in mechanical engineering, including design, CFD and fluids, heat transfer, pressure vessels, NDE, or CAE.
- 4Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to define your own structure when goals are still evolving.
- 5Ability to articulate not only the correct answer but also the specific reasoning mistakes that lead to wrong answers.
Who Should Apply
The ideal candidate has spent years doing real engineering or materials work and can translate that experience into questions that challenge an AI system. You should be comfortable with ambiguity because the task format is still evolving and you will help define it. This role is not for someone who wants a pre-structured assignment or who prefers to work only from explicit specifications. Candidates often fall short when they can state the right answer but cannot diagnose the reasoning behind wrong answers, or when their expertise is too narrow to cover the breadth described in the requirements.
Salary Insight
The role pays $60.00 to $90.00 per hour, consistent with senior-level contract compensation for specialized engineering or materials expertise. The top of the range reflects a practitioner who brings substantial real-world project depth.
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Application Tip
Show your ability to think like a task designer: describe one realistic problem from your own work and outline the exact steps you would take to make it scorable and challenging for an AI model. Focus on how you would diagnose incorrect answers, since that is the core skill this role evaluates.
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