ML Research Expert — Published First Author (Benchmark Authoring
Quick facts
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote
- Background
- PhD
- Skills
- Machine Learning, Deep Learning
- Platform
- Afterquery — 226 open jobs
- Typical pay at Afterquery
- $40–150/hour · median $88 (77 jobs on our site)
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Paid, remote work authoring and validating research-grade ML benchmark tasks. For Master's or PhD-level ML researchers with at least one first-author paper. Domain: Machine Learning / AI Research Requirements Experience: 1+ years of hands-on ML research; no upper limit Education: Master's or PhD (in progress is fine, including current PhD candidates) The work You will design and validate tasks that measure what frontier AI models can actually do across machine learning. We are looking for people who write ML code and publish results, not for annotation or data-labelling experience. Task areas span: Language Models, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Vision & Generation, Robotics, ML Systems & Efficient ML, Optimization & Theory, Classical & Adaptive Learning, Time Series & Forecasting, Structured & Causal Reasoning, Trustworthy Learning, and AI for Science. Application process Candidates who meet the requirements and provide the requested materials will be prioritised for review. As part of this process we conduct thorough background checks. Please apply only if you meet these requirements.
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.