Environmental Scientist & Engineer Expert

AfterQuery; United States; Remote; CAD 55,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Async work schedule

Competitive hourly pay

Job summary

AfterQuery seeks environmental scientists and engineers as contractors to review, create, and rank content that teaches AI models how real environmental work is performed. You will evaluate AI-generated site assessments, permitting and compliance analysis, remediation design, and air and water quality modeling for technical accuracy.

Work is paid hourly, fully remote, and fully asynchronous—you control when and how much you work, and you contribute to high-impact frontier AI projects in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in environmental science, environmental engineering, geology, hydrology or a closely related field.
• 2+ years of professional environmental work (assessment, permitting, compliance, remediation or modeling).
• Strong written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated environmental analysis for technical and regulatory accuracy.
• Create expert demonstrations of site assessment, permitting, and remediation workflows.
• Rank and label model responses against environmental standards and regulations.

Skills

Strong written communication

Education

Degree in environmental science or related field

Tools

ArcGIS

AERMOD

MODFLOW

Job description

Environmental scientists and engineers build expert-level evaluation and training data for frontier AI labs. AfterQuery partners with frontier AI labs to build expert-level evaluation and training data. We are hiring environmental scientists and environmental engineers as contractors to review, create, and rank technical content that teaches AI models how real environmental work is done. You will evaluate AI-generated site assessments, permitting and compliance analysis, remediation design, air and water quality modeling, and impact studies for technical accuracy, and create expert demonstrations drawn from your own practice. The work is paid hourly, fully remote, and fully async - you choose when and how much you work.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated environmental analysis for technical and regulatory accuracy
• Create expert demonstrations of site assessment, permitting, and remediation workflows
• Rank and label model responses against environmental standards and regulations

Required Qualifications

• Degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, geology, hydrology, or a closely related field
• 2+ years of professional environmental work (assessment, permitting, compliance, remediation, or modeling)
• Strong written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• PE license, PG license, or CHMM certification
• Experience with NEPA, CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Air Act, or Clean Water Act work
• Fluency with modeling or GIS tools (AERMOD, MODFLOW, ArcGIS)

Why apply

• Fully remote and async - work on your own schedule
• Competitive hourly pay for your environmental expertise
• Shape how frontier AI models reason about environmental systems