Chemical Engineering Expert, AI Trainer

Sovrano AI; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Part time

Job summary

Sovrano AI is seeking independent contractors for remote, project-based work evaluating frontier AI performance in chemical engineering. You will craft realistic problems from your own practice, feed them to frontier models, and assess outputs against professional standards.

Responsibilities include drafting clear briefs, creating grading rubrics, and documenting model errors with evidence. Minimum 10 hours per week, PayPal payment, and US/UK/IE/CA/AUS availability.

Qualifications

• Based in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, or Australia and available 10+ hours/week.
• Degree in chemical engineering or related field (in progress or completed).
• PayPal account required for payment.
• Willing to work without AI assistance where the project does not permit it.

Responsibilities

• Turn problems from your own work into realistic tasks with clear briefs and supporting files.
• Run tasks through frontier AI models and judge results against professional standards.
• Compare two model responses and explain which holds up and why.
• Write rubrics detailing what a correct answer must include.
• Document specific errors in model output with evidence.

Skills

Process design

Reaction engineering

Separations

Process safety

Thermodynamics

Rubric writing

Education

Chemical engineering degree (in progress or completed)

Tools

Process simulators

Spreadsheets

Python

MATLAB

Job description

Fully remote, project-based work on how frontier AI performs at real chemical engineering, from reaction and separation design to process safety and materials. You build tasks out of your own plant, lab, or design experience and grade where the model falls short. $40 to $125 USD an hour, at least 10 hours a week, as an independent contractor. For practicing chemical engineers in the US, UK, Ireland, Canada, or Australia.

About the role

Frontier models can recite chemical engineering textbooks and still stumble when asked to size equipment, balance a process, or judge a safety case. This role puts your practice on that gap. You write realistic problems based on work you have done yourself, give them to frontier AI models, and judge the results the way you would review a colleague's design. Tasks are long form and you set your own pace, so writing clearly about your reasoning matters as much as the chemistry.

What you'll do

• Turn problems from your own work into realistic tasks, with a clear brief and the supporting files an expert would need
• Run the tasks through frontier AI models and judge what comes back against the standard of your profession
• Compare two model responses to the same task and explain which one holds up, and why
• Write grading rubrics that spell out what a correct answer has to include
• Document specific errors in model output, with evidence

Requirements

• Based in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, or Australia
• Degree in chemical engineering or a closely related field, completed or in progress
• Available at least 10 hours per week
• PayPal account for payment
• Willing to work without LLM assistance where the project does not permit it
• Use one email address to sign up, take the assessment, and get paid

Ideal qualifications

• 2+ years of industry experience in chemical engineering, in any specialty (process, reaction, separations, materials, safety)
• Degree in chemical engineering or a closely related field, completed or in progress
• Comfortable with the standard tools of your specialty, such as process simulators, spreadsheets, and Python or MATLAB
• Full professional or native-level written English
• Based in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, or Australia

Nice to have

• PE licensure or chartered status (welcome, not required)
• Have used Claude or ChatGPT in professional work
• Prior work on an AI training or data platform

What success looks like

• You clear the skills assessment on your own work, with no AI assistance
• Your tasks come from real problems in your own practice, and a frontier model genuinely fails them
• Your rubrics are specific enough that another expert would grade the same response the same way
• You act on reviewer feedback without needing to be walked through it
• You keep at least 10 hours a week going, week after week

Pay and contract

$40 to $125 USD an hour. The rate varies with your expertise, education, and experience. Minimum 10 hours a week with no weekly maximum; full-time hours are available.

Independent contractor, fully remote. Payment runs through PayPal, so you need a PayPal account. As an independent contractor, you handle your own taxes.

Skills

Process design, Reaction engineering, Separations, Process safety, Thermodynamics, Rubric writing