A hybrid, Bay Area-based W-2 role embedded with a leading AI lab: senior software engineers vet model outputs, write instruction specs and golden solutions, and build engineering benchmarks. 4+ years, senior-level progression and a CS or engineering degree. 40 hours a week for an initial 6 months, $65–105/hour.
Produce real design work in Figma (layouts, wireframes, prototypes, design systems) and critique design iterations in writing, as reference material for training AI on visual and UX quality. US-based designers with 5+ years and a strong portfolio. $30–80/hour, ten openings, contractor.
Review and annotate financial statements, critique audit procedures, build and check financial models, and assess tax compliance and legal-financial documents for AI training data. US-based contributors only; a CPA, auditor or tax specialist title and an accounting degree are required. Thirty openings, contractor, $60–120/hour.
Full-time Bay Area hybrid role with an AI lab's research team: review model reasoning on life sciences tasks, write golden solutions and instruction specs, and design benchmarks. For life sciences PhDs with 4+ years of substantive research experience. W-2 via Cincinnatus, $65–105/hour.
US-based systems analysts bring requirements gathering, BPMN or UML process modelling and SQL troubleshooting to the design and validation of AI training scenarios. Contractor, remote (US only), 10 openings, $60–120/hour. Five years as a systems analyst or technical consultant.
Litigate a simulated commercial contract dispute turn by turn: draft motions, briefs, demand letters and discovery, answer opposing counsel's moves, and write rubric items for what a strong response looks like. Three years of post-JD commercial contract litigation and a US licence (active or lapsed) are the profile. US-based, one opening, $100/hour.
Former federal and military staff write and grade WARs, SITREPs, after-action summaries and executive briefings, supply golden reference answers, and help build the rubrics that train AI on federal report writing. Three years of DoD reporting preferred. US only, $40–80/hour, 20 openings.
Author AI evaluation tasks from real fire and life safety review work: egress plan checks, sprinkler and alarm review, hazmat control areas, firestop photo verification. For US fire marshals, fire protection engineers and NICET III+ designer-reviewers with 3+ years in the seat. Remote hourly contract at $45–60/hour.
Audit repository-level software engineering benchmark tasks for a frontier AI lab: reference patches, test harnesses, Docker isolation, and signs of answer leakage or reward hacking. For US engineers with 3+ years and real open-source contributor or maintainer history. $70–90/hour.
A full-time W-2 placement at a leading AI lab through Cincinnatus LLC: US-based mechanical engineers vet model outputs, write instruction specs and reference solutions, and build benchmarks. 5+ years in industry and a mechanical engineering degree required. 40 hours a week for an initial 2–3 months, $60–90/hour.
Judge AI-enhanced and upscaled video and stills at pixel level for a leading AI lab's GenAI team: artifacts, noise, aliasing, banding, grain, sharpening. For VFX and rendering supervisors, colorists, DPs, lighting artists and high-end photographers with 5+ years. US, 20 hours a week, $60–90/hour.
Act as ground truth for an AI lab teaching models real enterprise sales work: audit workflows, build golden reference trajectories in a mock sales stack, and refine rubrics. For sellers with around 10 years in enterprise sales. US only, $60–90/hour, placed via Cincinnatus.
Practising US primary care, family medicine or general internal medicine physicians review outpatient notes and judge AI-written documentation against what a PCP would actually chart. Needs C1 or better in one of 25 listed languages. 2+ years post-residency, 10 hours a week, $170–190/hour.
Experimental scientists create and review training data for a frontier lab's materials science models: inorganic synthesis, superconductors, semiconductors and advanced packaging, characterization (XRD, SEM, TEM) and fabrication. PhD, MS or equivalent hands-on experience. US-based, 10–40 hours a week, $84/hour.
Full-time W-2 role through Cincinnatus LLC, embedded with a leading AI lab: senior drug development scientists write golden solutions, instruction specs and benchmarks for pharma R&D reasoning. Hybrid in the Bay Area, 40 hours a week for an initial 6 months. PhD, PharmD or MD with 4+ years in industry R&D. $75–115/hour.
A full-time W-2 role (via Cincinnatus LLC) embedded with a leading AI lab in the Bay Area: review legal model outputs, write instruction specs and golden solutions, and build legal benchmarks. Hybrid, on-site several days a week, 6-month initial term. $60–100/hour; JD, 5+ years' practice, US bar.
Full-time, on-site-hybrid role in the Bay Area: review AI output on business and sales operations tasks, write instruction specs and golden solutions, and build benchmarks with an AI lab's research team. For senior ops leaders with 4+ years. W-2 via Cincinnatus, $60–100/hour.
Redline MSAs, NDAs and DPAs against a company playbook, choose the position and the fallback, and write the reasoning behind every markup so an AI can learn it. US-based, with a JD, US bar admission and four years of transactional practice preferred. 50 openings at $90–110/hour.
US-based cloud and DevOps engineers design and grade AI training tasks on Kubernetes failure diagnosis, AWS service integration, Terraform or CDK design and CI/CD, and write the rubrics behind them. 4+ years at a top-tier organisation. Full-time W-2 through Cincinnatus LLC at a leading AI lab, $75–110/hour.
Full-time Bay Area hybrid role embedded with an AI lab: review model reasoning on materials problems, write golden solutions and specs, and build benchmarks. For materials PhDs (or master's with exceptional industrial depth) with 4+ years of R&D. W-2 via Cincinnatus, $70–110/hour.
Help an AI lab evaluate a performance transfer model: define what a faithfully captured performance looks like, curate easy and hard benchmark examples, and shape the reviewer pool. For character animators with 4+ years and 2+ feature or AAA credits. US, sessions in LA or NYC, $60–90/hour.
Paid pilot for US pharma forecasters: build or critique drug launch curves and judge whether forecast assumptions (analogs, ramp, peak share, loss of exclusivity) hold up, while writing rubrics that evaluate AI analysis of drugs. 5+ years, 10–20 hours over 1–2 weeks. $130–210/hour.
Evaluate Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) development tasks for a frontier AI lab: CUDA-to-NKI migration fidelity, Trainium performance optimisation and GPU-versus-Trainium numerical correctness. Requires 2+ years writing NKI kernels for Trainium or Inferentia2. US-only, $70–90/hour.
Work inside a leading AI lab's research team as its insurance and actuarial specialist: QA model outputs, write instruction specs and golden solutions, and build insurance benchmarks. Needs an FSA, ASA, FCAS or ACAS, or an active adjuster, underwriting or broking licence, plus 4+ years. Full-time W-2, hybrid Bay Area, $60–100/hour.
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