Remote | Expert Professors - Coding & STEM -- $70-$95/hour

Job Description

Job Title

Part-time Consulting Opportunity for STEM Professors

Location

San Francisco, CA

• Remote
  
  

Job Summary

Specialized part-time consulting for current or retired professors in STEM fields (machine learning, coding, data science) to design and evaluate challenging real-world tasks for frontier AI systems. This role supports collaborations with a leading AI lab focused on improving AI models through benchmark task design, golden solution development, and model evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

• Task Design & Development: Designing domain-specific problems for agentic tasks, targeting AI model capabilities and reasoning failures.
• Specification & Golden Solution Generation: Integrating problems into an agentic development environment (Python) and preparing detailed specifications and golden solutions.
• Evaluation & Model Analysis: Evaluating model performance, identifying reasoning gaps, and analyzing agent trajectories to support model improvement.
  
  

Ideal Profile

• Current or retired professor experience in STEM domains (ML, coding, data science).
• Degree in computer science, data science, or a relevant STEM field.
• Ability to commit at least 30 hours per week, primarily during weekdays.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, verbal, and written communication skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Past experience in AI training, model evaluation, or data annotation.
• Comfort working with Python in an agentic development environment.
  
  

Contract Details

• Employment Type: W2 contract
• Location: Remote (United States candidates)
• Compensation: $70–$95 per hour
• Commitment: At least 30 hours per week, with at least 6 hours per day on weekdays.
• Administered by: Cincinnatus LLC
• Start Date: Immediate
  
  

About The Platform

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