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Drilling/Production Engineer

Handshake is looking for energy industry professionals to support AI research through flexible, hourly contract work.

RemoteUp to $85 per hour
Hiring companyHandshake AI
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About the role

This is not a traditional job. You’ll draw on your hands-on experience with industrial operations, plant performance, and energy asset management to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI better understand operations workflows and performance engineering practices.

This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside anything else you have going on.

  • Placement depends on current project needs, with opportunities to be considered for future projects as they become available.

Responsibilities

  • This project involves using your professional experience and hands-on knowledge of the tools you use in your daily work to create expert-level training data and evaluate AI-generated responses for accuracy and relevance. No prior AI experience required.

Experience and education

  • At least 2 years of professional experience in industrial operations, plant performance, or energy asset management, in roles such as:

    • Plant Performance Engineer or Reliability Engineer.

    • SCADA Engineer or Drilling/Production Engineer.

    • Generation Asset Analyst.

    • Or equivalent roles in the energy industry.

  • Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools:

    • AVEVA PI.

    • WinCC

    • Oracle MDM.

    • Power BI.

    • Bloomberg Terminal.

  • Strong written communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and asynchronously with AI research teams.

Schedule details

Fully remote with a flexible, asynchronous schedule and no minimum hour requirement; most contributors work approximately 5–20 hours per week when participating in an active project.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Compensation details

Up to $85 per hour.

  • Depending on the project.
More about the hiring companyHandshake AI
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