No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.

Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.

Why Apply

• Work stays in your specialty, judged on scientific judgment rather than output volume.
• Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week.
• Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience.
• Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles earth and climate science.

• Author realistic geoscience scenarios from field observation through interpretation, the kind a working geologist actually reasons through.
• Write reference answers with the geological reasoning behind each interpretation, processes and timescales weighed.
• Grade model output on geoscience and climate questions for physical accuracy and appropriate uncertainty.
• Flag explanations that read fluent but get the earth science wrong, the misses only a trained geoscientist would catch.
• Author realistic geoscience scenarios from field observation through interpretation.
• Write reference answers with the geological reasoning behind each interpretation.
• Grade model output on geoscience and climate questions for physical accuracy.
• Flag explanations that read fluent but get the earth science wrong.

• Geologists and earth scientists with an advanced degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Researchers, industry geologists, and consultants across sedimentology, hydrology, geophysics, volcanology, and climate science.
• Scientists who reason from process and evidence, whether the data comes from an outcrop, a core, or a model.
• People with strong written English who can turn scientific judgment into clear, teachable reasoning.
• Advanced degree in geology, earth science, or a closely related field.
• 2+ years of research, industry, or field experience in the geosciences.

Apply at /apply/earth-science-geology-expert. About five minutes. Resume plus a few structured questions.

Resume review. Every application gets read against a published rubric and gets a decision.

Written assessment. You may be asked to take a written assessment for further placement.

Onboarding. Sign the contractor agreement, connect Stripe, and get platform access.

Project match. You're matched to live work in your specialty, usually within a week of onboarding.

Work arrangement: Fully remote

• $60 - $110/hr.
• $60 to $110/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.