Energy Expert

What you'll do

You give AI models the kind of problem a colleague at a utility or producer would hand you, then check what they do with it. The work has three parts: writing realistic problems from your own field, working through production, load, outage and cost data, and reading AI output for the mistakes a working professional would spot.

That last part is where sector experience pays off. A model can produce a tidy outage summary with the wrong units, or a cost comparison that ignores how a plant actually runs, and only someone who has handled those numbers will notice.

Who qualifies

• At least 5 years as an engineer or analyst at a utility, an oil and gas company or a power producer
• A bachelor's degree or higher
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining spreadsheets in your own job
• Strong written English

AfterQuery says this role is not for students or people early in their career. It prefers a Professional Engineer license, a background in reservoir, production, power systems or transmission planning, and experience in renewables or energy trading analysis. None of those is required.

What it pays

The board lists $75 an hour. This listing publishes no payment schedule or minimum weekly hours; see AfterQuery for how the platform pays in general.

Worth knowing

Good:

• A flat hourly figure, shown before you apply
• Flexible part-time hours on your own schedule
• A PE license is preferred only, so sector years can carry the application

Less good:

• Project work, so hours depend on what is open
• Spreadsheet skill is a hard requirement, which rules out engineers who left that side of the job years ago
• The ad gives no detail on how much work to expect

About this listing

Read on the AfterQuery Experts board; the ad was posted on 4 November 2026. It names no country of residence, so we list none. See AfterQuery.

How to get hired

• AfterQuery's help centre describes one unpaid assessment per pool that cannot be retaken, so read the instructions fully before you start. Our AfterQuery assessment guide walks through it.
• Put your sector first on your CV: name the utility, producer or asset type, and the data you worked with (load forecasts, outage logs, production reports).
• Show one spreadsheet you built in a sentence: what it modelled and who relied on it. The ad asks for that experience by name.
• To prepare, take a real outage or cost question from memory, write it as a self-contained problem with its answer, and check that a stranger could solve it from the text alone.