PhD Scientist — STEM Expert
Quick facts
- Pay
- $45 - $90/hour
- Type
- Part-time
- Location
- Remote(Worldwide)
- Background
- PhD
- Skills
- Python, MATLAB
- Platform
- Micro1 — 367 open jobs
- Typical pay at Micro1
- $20–185/hour · median $68 (358 jobs on our site)
- Payout
- Deel (twice a month)
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay to get AI training work
Pay: $45 - $90/hour
Required Skills
Research
Data Analysis
Experimental Design
Scientific Writing
Statistical Analysis
Laboratory Skills
Wet Lab
Clinical Research
MATLAB
Python
SolidWorks
Biostatistics
Epidemiology
Clinical Trials
Data Visualization
Spectroscopy
Chromatography
About micro1
micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.
Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.
Job Title: PhD Scientist - STEM Expert
Job Type: Contractor
Location: Remote(Worldwide)
Opportunity Snapshot
Pay: $45 - $90/hour
Commitment: Flexible — fits alongside your current role
Location: Fully remote
You’ll need: A completed PhD in a STEM field, plus hands-on research experience
Your tasks: Build difficult technical problems from your own research and define what makes an answer correct
These tasks are hard to build, and that’s the point. We’re looking for people with genuine depth in their field: the problems where the textbook answer isn’t enough, where the right approach depends on reading the constraints correctly, where a plausible-looking answer is quietly wrong.
What you’ll do
Design difficult technical problems drawn from your own research area, with realistic constraints and supporting data.
Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
Define objective criteria for correctness, so another researcher reviewing the work would reach the same verdict.
Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable rather than submitting them.
What we’re looking for
Completed PhD in a STEM field. This is a hard requirement.
Hands-on research experience — work you did yourself, not work you read about.
Wet lab, research lab, or academic experience is strongly preferred.
Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another researcher could verify it.
Publications or a record of research contribution is a strong plus.
Prior experience on AI training or evaluation projects is a plus, not a requirement.
How the selection process works
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micro1 recruits engineers and domain experts for AI labs using its AI interviewer. Once vetted, contractors work on human-data projects such as writing and checking model outputs or building coding evaluations.