Remote Principal Engineer & Professor — Technical Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 117,000 - 255,000; Part time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in engineering, physics, materials, or a closely related field.
• Principal, staff, or fellow-level experience at a major engineering organization, a national lab, or a faculty appointment.
• Deep technical depth in at least one area, with hands-on ownership of the work.
• Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another expert could verify it.
• Publications, patents, or a record of technical leadership is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Design difficult technical problems from your own area, with realistic constraints and supporting data.
• Provide the correct solution and walk through the reasoning that gets there.
• Define objective criteria for correctness, so another expert reviewing the work would reach the same verdict.
• Review problems built by other contributors for technical accuracy and soundness of method.
• Flag problems that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable rather than submitting them.

Skills

Technical Depth

Engineering Judgment

Knowing When an Answer Is Wrong

Advanced Engineering

Education

Master’s or PhD in engineering/physics/materials

Job description

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data.