Materials Scientist - AI Trainer

AfterQuery Experts; Auckland; Remote; NZD 304,000 - 433,000; Full time

Job summary

AfterQuery Experts is recruiting materials science contractors to help evaluate AI prompts and safety boundaries in your field. You will author prompts, review others' prompts, and write domain analyses explaining judgments, all on a fully remote, asynchronous schedule.

The role emphasizes a strong background in materials science, meticulous reasoning, and clear technical writing. Applicants must be located in one of Five Eyes countries and able to work independently.

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

Prompt engineering

Technical writing

Prompt review

Domain analysis

Education

Master's degree in materials science

PhD in metallurgy or related

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