Economists with a Master's or PhD and a year or more at a top research institution (World Bank, IMF, the Fed, a graduate school) work on a research project for a leading foundation-model AI lab. Remote contract at $120–150/hour, at least 10 hours a week for a minimum of four weeks.
Use your QuickBooks Online or Desktop experience on an AI training project: run invoicing, bill pay and reconciliations, review P&L, balance sheet and cash flow reports, and flag accounting errors. 40 openings, remote contractor, $90–170/hour.
Condensed matter PhDs create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Nineteen narrow research areas, from bosonization to SYK. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
AMO physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, including levitated optomechanics, cavity QED and ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Researchers who have published on stochastic autocatalytic growth create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark. A single narrow area: chemical master equations, branching processes and reaction-network moments. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
High energy and nuclear theorists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public benchmark testing whether frontier AI models can do real physics research. Seven narrow areas, from AdS/BCFT to quasi-PDFs and dark photon searches. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Mathematical physicists create, solve, review or audit research-level problems for CritPt, a public AI physics benchmark, where the standard of proof sits closer to mathematics than physics. Four narrow areas, from hypergeometric identities to Fefferman-Graham geometry. Remote hourly contract at $80–110 per hour.
Hands-on structural, thermal, mechanical design and dynamics engineers review and write hard engineering problems about real hardware (loads, margins, heat transfer, vibration, tolerances) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour.
Hands-on systems, integration, reliability and manufacturing test engineers review and write hard engineering problems about real hardware (V&V, qualification, FMEA, root-cause analysis) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour, weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Embedded firmware, FPGA/RTL, flight software and hardware test automation engineers review and write hard problems about software that runs on real hardware (timing, race conditions, interfaces, bring-up) for an AI research initiative. 5+ years, 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour.
Review datasets and task outputs against rubrics and guidelines, flag errors and inconsistencies, and document your reasoning where the rules run out. US-based only. 30 openings, remote contractor, $30–60/hour, 3–5+ years in data quality, QA or analysis preferred.
Hands-on RF, power electronics, analog/mixed-signal, PCB and signal integrity engineers review and write hard problems about real hardware designs, measurements and bring-up for an AI research initiative. 5+ years with 3 recent hands-on. Remote contract, $100–120/hour, weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Former management consultants rebuild and critique PowerPoint slides for storyline, structure and visual clarity, so AI learns to produce client-ready decks. At least two years client-facing at a consulting firm required. US, UK or Canada. 15 openings, contractor, $150–350/hour.
Hand everyday email, calendar, booking and coordination tasks to an AI assistant, check what it actually did, and grade it against detailed guidelines. US only; you need an iPhone with iMessage and a Facebook or Instagram account. 50 openings, contractor, $15–30/hour.
Experienced mechanical designers produce manufacturing-ready drawings and 2D/3D CAD models with full GD&T, document design intent, and critique existing engineering documentation to train AI. SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Onshape, Inventor, Creo, NX plus FreeCAD. 10 openings, contractor, $40–80/hour.
Finance professionals rebuild and critique PowerPoint slides that carry financial analysis, valuation and investor messaging, so AI learns what a board-ready deck looks like. US, UK or Canada. 5 openings, contractor, $150–350/hour.
Maintainers of real open source repositories review LLM-generated patches against their own codebase, justify each verdict in writing, and peer-review other experts. Open globally, about 15 hours a week, paid per accepted task at a stated $150–300/hour equivalent. 10 openings.
Software engineers rebuild technical PowerPoint slides, document system architectures and engineering processes, and review technical storytelling, so AI learns to explain engineering clearly. US, UK or Canada. 7 openings, contractor, $150–350/hour.
Data scientists and analysts analyse datasets, build analytics reports and rebuild data-driven PowerPoint decks so AI learns to turn numbers into clear business insight. US, UK or Canada. 7 openings, contractor, $150–350/hour.
Former DoD staff write prompts, source artifacts and golden answers for military staff writing (WARs, SITREPs, executive summaries, performance reports), then build the grading guidelines for AI output. Three years as a federal contributor to DoD required. US only, twenty openings, $40–80/hour.
Experienced IT and systems managers: critique IT strategy, architecture, vendor and security-compliance scenarios and write the expert input that trains AI tools for IT professionals. 5+ years leading technical teams or enterprise infrastructure. 5 openings, contractor, $60–75/hour.
LATAM-based English speakers place and take short phone calls to US businesses on customers' behalf (reservations, appointments, vendor confirmations) as part of an AI training project. Paid for scheduled hours: four 5-hour shifts a week, initial 4-week engagement. $18–28/hour, 49 openings.
Mechanical designers build and edit fully parametric CAD parts and assemblies from written briefs, audit models for GD&T and manufacturability, and document design intent for AI training. The project runs in FreeCAD, and SolidWorks skills transfer. Forty openings, $40–100/hour.
AI safety testing in Telugu and English: provoke and document jailbreaks, bias and harmful output from chat models, and judge the quality of their Telugu answers. Evaluation skill matters more than security experience. Remote hourly contract at $16–22/hour, weekly pay; H-1B and STEM OPT excluded.
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