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Scientific Computing Research Expert

75/hr
Remote
contract
Posted September 14, 2026
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Listing checked October 29, 2026 · pay as published by AfterQuery

Key details

Pay
$75/hr
Location
Remote
Job type
contract
Posted
September 14, 2026

Overview

AfterQuery is assembling a bench of PhD-level and PhD-pursuing researchers to write and calibrate evaluation tasks for AI models. Your source material is your own scientific computing work: data reduction, model fitting, simulation setup, instrument data processing, numerical solvers, or inverse problems you have run and debugged. Tasks span life, physical, earth, mathematical, and engineering sciences, and the challenge should come from the science rather than hidden information. Approved tasks pay $300 each, take about four hours, and you choose how many to take on.

What You'll Do4

  • Design original evaluation tasks around computational research you have run, debugged, or been paid to deliver.
  • Write the scoring criteria that a strong solution must meet, while keeping exact passing thresholds out of the published task.
  • Revise each task in response to structured reviewer notes until it clears approval.
  • Take on optional peer review and calibration for tasks from other experts in your field.

Requirements7

  • Hold or pursue a PhD with hands-on research, or hold a master's with a research-active record: thesis enrollment, an RA or lab post, a publication, or a clear PhD path.
  • Use Python at a working level to run and debug your own computational work.
  • Turn your research computations into a clear evaluation task with defined inputs and expected outputs.
  • Set your own schedule for task-based work with no fixed weekly hours.
  • Show an active publication record as a PhD student, postdoc, or faculty member.
  • Show experience with scientific computing, data analysis, simulation, or numerical methods.
  • Bring prior work in data annotation, data labeling, or AI/ML evaluation.

Who Should Apply

Researchers across life, physical, earth, mathematical, and engineering sciences who can turn a real computational workflow into a well-defined AI evaluation task will find a strong fit here. A PhD in progress or completed, or a research-active master's, plus working Python skills, matters more than a job title from industry.

Salary Insight

The listing posts $75 per hour and $300 per approved task, with each task expected to take about four hours. That pay level sits above general annotation work and matches the expert scientific depth these tasks require.

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Required skills

PythonScientific ComputingData AnalysisSimulationNumerical MethodsModel FittingInverse ProblemsData ReductionInstrument Data ProcessingData AnnotationData LabelingAi/ml EvaluationResearch ComputingStatisticsApplied Mathematics

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