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AI Trainer (Engineering Sciences)
micro1
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · Worldwide
Experience
3 years
Job description
micro1 is looking for engineering professionals with prior AI-training or model-evaluation experience to support a project improving advanced AI systems. The role involves creating challenging technical engineering tasks, evaluating model-generated work, and establishing objective standards for correct solutions.
At a glance
- Employment
- Contract · Independent contractor
- Work mode
- Remote · Worldwide
- Pay
- USD 60 – 120 / hour
What you'll do
- Create realistic engineering tasks involving design, analysis, simulation, testing, manufacturing, debugging, or system integration.
- Develop task instructions, reproducible environments, reference solutions, and evaluation criteria.
- Evaluate model-generated calculations, code, simulations, analyses, and technical deliverables.
- Identify invalid assumptions, incorrect results, integration failures, or reproducibility issues.
What we're looking for
- Prior paid experience training, evaluating, benchmarking, or improving AI systems.
- Strong practical proficiency with Python or comparable engineering scripting.
- Hands-on expertise in at least one relevant hardware or engineering domain.
- Experience using relevant engineering software, command-line tools, scripting interfaces, configuration files, or programmatic APIs.
- Public proof of skill such as designs taken into production, simulations validated against test data, complex engineering failures personally diagnosed, patents, publications, technical reports, open-source hardware or engineering-software contributions, engineering competition results, or public schematics, PCB designs, RTL, simulations, test systems, scripts, or technical projects.
Nice to have
- Experience creating AI-training tasks, reference solutions, rubrics, graders, or benchmark problems.
- Experience reviewing other AI trainers' technical submissions.
- Experience with verification and validation, testing, failure analysis, or technical quality assurance.
- Experience with long-horizon or agentic AI evaluations.
- Availability to begin immediately.
How to get hired
- 1Submit your application, AI-training experience, engineering specialization, and public technical evidence.
- 2Complete an AI interview containing technical and integrity checks.
- 3Complete a hiring-manager review.
- 4If selected, complete project onboarding and begin your first assigned task.