Computational Environmental Scientist
Quick facts
- Pay
- $60–100/hr
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote — worldwide
- Background
- PhD
- Platform
- Aligned Labs — 15 open jobs
- Typical pay at Aligned Labs
- $50–130/hour · median $80 (15 jobs on our site)
- Payout
- Stripe (every two weeks · reported by workers)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
We are looking to expand our team of expert consultants with 12 PhD Environmental Scientists for part-time, fully-remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects start at $60-80 USD per hour, with top-performing experts on our platform earning $150+ USD / hour.
This role includes stress-testing leading AI models on research-level environmental science problems, creating and verifying complex questions and explanations in your area of expertise, and assessing whether AI-generated reasoning meets the standards of a trained environmental scientist.
About Aligned
At Aligned, we partner with the world's leading AI labs to push the frontier of AI knowledge in fields like STEM, medicine, finance, and the humanities. Our platform matches subject-matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs.
Who We're Looking For
You hold a PhD in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or a closely related field, and you are actively engaged in computational research. You build or apply quantitative models and work with large environmental datasets.
Ideal backgrounds include
- Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and research scientists in university environmental science, environmental engineering, or earth and environmental systems departments
- Scientists at government agencies such as the EPA, USGS, or equivalent national environmental and water agencies
- Researchers at national laboratories or research institutes working on environmental modeling and simulation
- Industry scientists in environmental consulting, water resources, energy, or corporate sustainability and risk analytics
Minimum Qualifications
- Fluent English reading and writing skills
- PhD in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or a closely related field
- Hands-on experience in computational modeling, simulation, or large-scale data analysis
Aligned Labs works with experts who train and evaluate AI models on specialised tasks. Contributors set their own hourly rate and are invited to projects that match their expertise.