Research Scientist — Formal Methods / Computational Science
Quick facts
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Background
- PhD
- Platform
- Afterquery — 226 open jobs
- Typical pay at Afterquery
- $40–150/hour · median $88 (77 jobs on our site)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
We're building a research cohort of senior domain experts in formal methods and computational science — spanning math, physics, chemistry, and biology — to help evaluate how frontier AI models reason about hard, real-world expert-level problems. This is research-and-evaluation work, not production engineering: you'll be defining what "correct" and "excellent" look like on problems you already know deeply. Domain: Science (Math / Physics / Chemistry / Biology) Experience: 10+ years Education: PhD/Doctorate required 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.
About Afterquery
AfterQuery is a Y Combinator-backed company that produces expert data for frontier AI labs. It hires professionals and specialists to build hard evaluation problems, write gold-standard answers and review model reasoning.