Senior Physics Consultant
Quick facts
- Pay
- $80–120/hr
- Type
- Contract
- Location
- Remote — worldwide
- Background
- PhD
- Skills
- Physics
- 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
## About the Role
We are looking to expand our team of expert consultants with **15 Senior Physics Experts** for part-time, fully-remote work supporting **frontier AI research**. Projects start at $80-120 USD / hour with top-performing experts on our platform earning $150+ USD / hour.
This role includes:
- * Designing expert-level **physics problems** today's leading models can't solve.
- * Evaluating and pressure-testing leading **AI models**.
**This is not tutoring, teaching, or generic annotation work.**
## 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, law, and finance. Our platform matches subject-matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs.
Unlike low-skill freelance work on traditional consulting platforms, our community of experts set their own rates and are exclusively matched to the highest impact, **top-paying projects** in the industry.
## Who We’re Looking For
You are a **senior physicist** with extensive experience solving complex, research-grade problems at world-class institutions.
Ideal backgrounds include:
- * Researchers at national laboratories (**Los Alamos, Fermilab, Argonne, Oak Ridge**, etc.)
- * Scientists at leading government research institutions (**NIST, NRL, AFRL**, etc.)
- * Faculty and researchers at leading universities (**MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Princeton**, etc.)
- * Physicists at elite research facilities (**CERN, Brookhaven, SLAC**, etc.)
- * Scientists at leading space/defense organizations (**NASA, JPL, Boeing, Lockheed Martin**, etc.)
- * Applied physicists at top-tier industry R&D labs and startups (**Bell Labs, Commonwealth Fusion, Rigetti, IonQ**, etc.)
## Minimum Qualifications
- * Fluent English reading and writing skills
- * **PhD in Physics** or closely related field
- * **5+ years** of post-graduate research or applied physics experience
- * Track record at institutions recognized as leaders in your field
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.