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About the Role AI is only as good as the challenges used to test it — and we need experts like you to design them. We're looking for machine learning specialists with deep domain knowledge to create the hard, research-level problems that state-of-the-art AI systems genuinely struggle with. Your work will directly shape how the next generation of AI models is evaluated and improved. This is a rare opportunity to apply your hard-earned expertise at the cutting edge of AI development. - Organization: Alignerr - Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: 10–40 hours/week What You'll Do - Design complex, original ML problems rooted in your specialized research domain - Craft evaluation tasks that expose the limits of today's most capable AI systems - Draw from your own research experience to build challenges that go beyond standard ML pipelines - Write clear problem statements, define evaluation criteria, and provide gold-standard solutions - Review and assess AI-generated solutions for correctness, creativity, and methodological rigor - Document problem difficulty, required domain knowledge, and expected failure modes - Collaborate asynchronously with a global team of researchers and engineers Who You Are - Graduate-level expertise (MS or PhD preferred) in a scientific or technical field that intersects with machine learning - Strong working knowledge of ML methods — model selection, feature engineering, evaluation metrics, and pipeline design - Deep familiarity with active research problems in your domain - Ability to identify exactly where general ML knowledge breaks down and specialized insight becomes essential - Experience publishing or conducting original research is highly valued - Excellent written communication — you can articulate nuanced technical problems with precision and clarity - Self-motivated and comfortable working independently on intellectually demanding tasks Example Domains We're looking for experts across a wide range of specializations, including: - Computational biology, genomics, or bioinformatics - Climate science and environmental modeling - Medical imaging and healthcare ML - Materials science and computational chemistry - Astrophysics and signal processing - NLP for low-resource or specialized corpora - Robotics, control theory, or reinforcement learning - Financial modeling and quantitative analysis Why Join Us - Work at the frontier of AI evaluation and safety research - Collaborate with top research labs pushing the boundaries of what AI can do - Put your hard-earned domain expertise to meaningful, high-impact use - Full autonomy over your schedule — work when and as much as you want - Fully remote and asynchronous — work from anywhere in the world - Potential for ongoing work, contract extensions, and deeper research involvement - Build your profile as a recognized contributor to cutting-edge AI development