Computational Geoscientist
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 15 PhD Geoscientists for part-time, fully remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects start at $60-100 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 geoscience 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 geoscientist.
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 Geoscience, Geophysics, Geology, or a closely related field, and you apply computational tools in your day-to-day work.
Ideal backgrounds include
- Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and research scientists in university geoscience, geophysics, or earth science departments
- Scientists at government agencies and surveys such as the USGS or equivalent national geological surveys
- Researchers at national laboratories working on subsurface, seismic, or geodynamic modeling
- Industry geoscientists in energy, mining, geothermal, carbon storage, or geotechnical and hazard consulting
Minimum Qualifications
- Fluent English reading and writing skills
- PhD in Geoscience, Geophysics, Geology, 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.