Remote Materials Scientist for AI Safety & Evaluation

AfterQuery Experts; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 209,000 - 369,000; Part time

Job summary

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.

You will author prompts and scenarios, review prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe, and write the domain analysis behind each judgment. You will revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback, ensuring high-quality, defensible decisions.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in materials science, materials engineering, metallurgy, or 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.
• 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 safe vs unsafe boundaries in your field.
• Review and classify prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe.
• Write the domain analysis behind each judgment explaining acceptability or boundary crossing.
• Revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback.

Skills

Prompt engineering

Prompt evaluation

Domain analysis

Reviewing prompts

Education

Master's degree in materials science 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.

You will author prompts and scenarios, review prompts written by other experts as safe or unsafe, and write the domain analysis behind each judgment. You will revise your work based on structured reviewer feedback, ensuring high-quality, defensible decisions.