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What the work is
Role: Engineering PhD
Opportunity Snapshot
Pay: $80–95/hour
Duration: Short-term pilot — approximately 2–3 weeks
Project kickoff: Ideally end of week( November 8th)
You’ll need: PhD or PhD candidate in electrical, mechanical, chemical, industrial, or aerospace engineering
Your tasks: Build technical problems from real engineering workflows and define what makes an answer correct
This is a short pilot, roughly 2–3 weeks, focused on real engineering workflows: the problems you’d actually encounter in your research or practice, not textbook exercises. You’ll build those problems, provide the correct analysis, and define what separates a right answer from one that only looks right.
What you’ll do
- Design technical problems drawn from real engineering work in your field, with realistic constraints and supporting data.
- Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
- Define objective criteria for correctness, so another engineer reviewing the work would reach the same verdict.
- Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
- Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable rather than submitting them.
Who gets hired
- PhD, or PhD candidate, in electrical, mechanical, chemical, industrial, or aerospace engineering.
- Degree from a strong research institution is preferred.
- Hands-on research or practice experience — problems you worked on yourself, not ones you read about.
- Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another engineer could verify it.
- Publications or a record of technical contribution is a plus.
- AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.
How the selection process works
- Apply and complete the screening questions
- Complete the AI interview for this role — it’s how your expertise gets in front of the client
- Profile review
- Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up
Start Timeline & Availability
We typically fill roles within 48 hours and are looking for experts who are ready to begin immediately. If selected, you will be expected to start your first task within 24–48 hours of completing onboarding.
The platform posted this on 3 Nov 2026.