HVAC Expert
We're hiring HVAC technicians as contractors to author and grade the diagnosis and system design scenarios those evaluations run on.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
This is knowledge work built on your trade, done entirely from home.
No screen recording, no keystroke monitoring, no idle timers.
Independent contractor. Ongoing project work rather than single task batches.
Why Apply
- Paid for your trade knowledge, no tools, no travel, no job site.
- Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week, it fits around jobs.
- Weekly pay via Stripe at a rate set from your experience.
- Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles the trades.
Responsibilities
- Author realistic HVAC scenarios from symptom through diagnosis and repair, the kind you actually run on a service call.
- Write reference answers with the system and code reasoning behind each step, why that charge, why that duct size, why that sequence of operations.
- Grade model output for technical accuracy, efficiency, and safety.
- Flag advice that reads plausible but would kill a compressor or vent CO into a home, the misses only a working tech would catch.
- Author realistic HVAC scenarios from symptom through diagnosis and repair.
- Write reference answers with the system and code reasoning behind each step.
- Grade model output for technical accuracy, efficiency, and safety.
- Flag advice that reads plausible but would kill a compressor or vent CO into a home.
Required skills
- Working command of refrigeration cycles, airflow, and load calculation.
Preferred skills
- NATE certification or HVAC contractor license.
- Commercial refrigeration or building automation depth.
- Heat pump, geothermal, or high efficiency system experience.
Experience and education
- HVAC technicians with EPA 608 certification, any required state license, and at least two years of field work.
- Residential service, commercial refrigeration, and controls techs, all specialties welcome.
- Tradespeople who can explain the why behind the fix, not just the fix.
- People comfortable writing clearly, this work is typed, not brazed.
- EPA Section 608 certification, plus a state HVAC license where your state requires one.
- 2+ years of field experience in installation, service, or controls.
Language requirements
- Clear written English for documenting diagnostic reasoning.
Assessment requirements
Apply at /apply/hvac-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.
Schedule details
Fully remote, fully async. No fixed hours, it fits around jobs.
Minimum 10 hours per week, no maximum. Scale up or down week to week.
Able to commit at least 10 hours per week.
Time Commitment: 10 hours/week.
Start Date: ASAP.
End Date: Ongoing.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
- $50 - $90/hr.
- $50 to $90/hr, paid weekly via Stripe. Your rate is set from your experience, not negotiated down after you start.
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