Civil Engineer

DataAnnotation; United States; Remote; USD 103,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an experienced Civil Engineer to design and simulate challenging tasks for AI model training. You will craft realistic projects from your professional expertise, verify them with simulations, and clearly document the expected solutions and grading rubric.

The role is remote as an independent contractor with flexible hours, and payouts are weekly. You’ll contribute to a new area focused on building hard, realistic tasks for AI evaluation and improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in civil engineering or a closely related field.
• Comfortable working with simulation tools.
• Able to write clear solutions and grading rubrics in fluent written English.

Responsibilities

• Design challenging, realistic civil engineering tasks for AI agents, drawn from your own expertise.
• Design and simulate a real-world physical object or system end to end, and use simulation to check your work.
• Test AI models against your task and document where they fail.
• Write the correct solution and the grading rubric that defines what good looks like.

Skills

Civil engineering expertise

Technical problem solving

English writing clarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering

Tools

Simulation tools

Job description

Pay: up to $125+ /hour (depends on task difficulty and specialization)

Location: Remote Type: Independent contractor Hours: Flexible hours Payouts: Weekly

Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Civil Engineer to help train AI models. You’ll design challenging, realistic engineering tasks from your own professional expertise, check them with simulation, and show exactly where AI models fall short.

This is a new area for our company, focused on building hard, realistic engineering tasks for AI to attempt. Your expertise and written solutions become the signal that shapes the next generation of AI.

What you’ll actually do

• Design challenging, realistic civil engineering tasks for AI agents, drawn from your own expertise, including tasks that use custom tool environments.


• Design and simulate a real-world physical object or system end to end, and use simulation to check your work.


• Test AI models against your task and document where they fail.


• Write the correct solution and the grading rubric that defines what good looks like.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Civil Engineer, Civil Engineering Expert, Civil Engineering Technologist.

What we look for

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in civil engineering or a closely related field.


• Comfortable working with simulation tools.


• Able to write clear solutions and grading rubrics in fluent written English.


• Only applicants based in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or the United States will be considered for this role.

Compensation

Up to $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $100k-200k a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 1M+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Hundreds of millions paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.