Materials Engineer - AI Trainer

AfterQuery Experts; Wellington; Remote; NZD 172,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

AfterQuery Experts is seeking materials science experts as contractors to help make AI models safer within their domain. You will author prompts and scenarios that probe safety boundaries, review peers' prompts for safety classification, and write concise domain analyses explaining judgments.

The role is fully remote and asynchronous, offering flexible scheduling and contract engagement with no sponsorship. Prior experience in metallurgy or related advanced materials is a plus.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in materials science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or a closely related discipline.
• Citizen of a Five Eyes country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand.
• Physically located in one of those five countries while doing the work.
• A PhD, or experience in metallurgy, advanced or energetic materials, nuclear materials, or national laboratory research is a plus, not a requirement.

Responsibilities

• Author prompts and scenarios that probe the boundary between safe and unsafe requests in your field.
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe.
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment: why a prompt is acceptable, or where it crosses a line and why.
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback.

Skills

Materials science expertise

Prompt engineering

Prompt evaluation

Domain analysis

Education

Master\'s degree in materials science or related field

PhD in metallurgy or related field (plus)

Job description

AfterQuery builds the expert evaluation data that frontier AI labs use to measure and improve their models. We are hiring materials science experts as contractors to help make AI models safer in their domain.

What You Will Actually Do

• Author prompts and scenarios that probe the boundary between safe and unsafe requests in your field
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment: why a prompt is acceptable, or where it crosses a line and why
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback

Who This Is For

• Master's degree or higher in materials science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or a closely related discipline
• Citizen of a Five Eyes country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand
• Physically located in one of those five countries while doing the work
• A PhD, or experience in metallurgy, advanced or energetic materials, nuclear materials, or national laboratory research is a plus, not a requirement

Contract and pay

• $150/hr equivalent, paid at $85 per approved task
• Fully remote and asynchronous, on your own schedule
• Contract engagement, no sponsorship available