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Senior Domain Expert — Multi-Discipline AI Research Program

Global Contract Posted 24 Jul 2026

$100 - $170/hr

About this role

Candidates must fall into one of the profiles listed above to be considered.

Tracks & Requirements:

1. Senior Software/Systems Engineer

Domain: Software Engineering

Experience: 8–12 years

Education: Bachelor's (Master's preferred)

2. Research Scientist — Formal Methods / Computational Science

Domain: Science (Math / Physics / Chemistry / Biology)

Experience: 10+ years

Education: PhD/Doctorate required

3. ML Research Engineer — Inference & GPU Kernels

Domain: Machine Learning / AI

Experience: 6–10 years

Education: PhD/Doctorate, or Master's with a strong research record

4. Enterprise Operations / Domain Analyst

Domain: Operations (Supply Chain / Finance / Compliance)

Experience: 8–12 years

Education: Bachelor's (professional certifications a plus)

5. Security Engineer — Cryptanalysis / Reverse Engineering

Domain: Security

Experience: 6–10 years

Education: Bachelor's (Master's preferred)

6. Mechanical / Hardware Design Engineer

Domain: Hardware (CAD / RTL / Robotics)

Experience: 8–12 years

Education: Bachelor's (PE license or Master's a plus)

7. Creative Technologist — Audio / Design / Linguistics

Domain: Media

Experience: 6–10 years

Education: Bachelor's (Master's a plus)

Candidates who meet the requirements and provide the requested materials will be prioritized for review. As part of this process, we conduct thorough background checks. Please apply only if you meet these requirements — candidates who meet fewer than 70% of the stated qualifications may be flagged for misrepresenting their professional experience, which could affect eligibility for future project staffing.

Responsibilities

  • Design realistic technical scenarios and problem sets within your track
  • Author expert-level reference solutions and grading rubrics
  • Evaluate AI-generated outputs for correctness, depth, and domain judgment

Required qualifications

  • Meets the experience and education bar for at least one track in Full Description
  • Currently or recently active in the field — hands-on, not purely academic-adjacent
  • Strong written communication — you'll be authoring technical explanations and structured feedback, not just doing the work itself
  • Comfortable with independent, asynchronous, remote work

Preferred qualifications

  • Prior research publication record, open-source contributions, or recognized work product in your track's domain
  • Experience evaluating, reviewing, or grading others' technical work (peer review, code review, grading, editing)
  • Track-specific bonus signal ML: SGLang, vLLM, Mamba/Mamba2, TensorRT-LLM, or GPU kernel work
  • Track-specific bonus signal Science: formal methods/theorem proving (Lean/Coq), computational biology/genomics, condensed-matter or quantum physics
  • Track-specific bonus signal Security: reverse engineering, cryptanalysis, CTF experience
  • Track-specific bonus signal Hardware: RTL/HDL, CAD, robotics
  • Track-specific bonus signal Media: audio engineering, linguistics, multimodal design

Why apply

  • Work directly on frontier AI research problems in your area of deep expertise
  • Fully remote, flexible, asynchronous — fits around existing work
  • Compensation scaled to track and seniority (see below)

Skills

Senior DomainAI Evaluation

Sourced from AfterQuery · original listing · application link last checked 11 Aug 2026

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