Senior Domain Expert — Multi-Discipline AI Research Program
Candidates must fall into one of the profiles listed above to be considered.
Hiring companyAfterQuery Experts
About the role
Tracks & Requirements:
1. Senior Software/Systems Engineer.
Domain: Software Engineering.
2. Research Scientist — Formal Methods / Computational Science.
Domain: Science (Math / Physics / Chemistry / Biology).
3. ML Research Engineer — Inference & GPU Kernels.
Domain: Machine Learning / AI.
4. Enterprise Operations / Domain Analyst.
Domain: Operations (Supply Chain / Finance / Compliance).
5. Security Engineer — Cryptanalysis / Reverse Engineering.
Domain: Security.
6. Mechanical / Hardware Design Engineer.
Domain: Hardware (CAD / RTL / Robotics).
7. Creative Technologist — Audio / Design / Linguistics.
Domain: Media.
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.
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).
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 skills
- 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 skills
- 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.
Experience and education
- Experience: 8–12 years.
- Experience: 10+ years.
- Experience: 6–10 years.
- Experience: 8–12 years.
- Experience: 6–10 years.
- Experience: 8–12 years.
- Experience: 6–10 years.
- Education: Bachelor's (Master's preferred).
- Education: PhD/Doctorate required.
- Education: PhD/Doctorate, or Master's with a strong research record.
- Education: Bachelor's (professional certifications a plus).
- Education: Bachelor's (Master's preferred).
- Education: Bachelor's (PE license or Master's a plus).
- Education: Bachelor's (Master's a plus).
Schedule details
4 hours/week.
Eligibility
Work arrangement: Fully remote
Compensation details
$100–$170 per hour.
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