Senior Economics Research Expert

AuraOne, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 207,000 - 344,000; Full time

Job summary

AuraOne, Inc. seeks a Senior Economics Research Expert for a remote contractor role evaluating AI outputs. You will review reasoning, reproduce key steps, and document methods to guide model training. Strong writing that cites sources is essential, along with the ability to work asynchronously.

Ideal candidates have graduate-level economics experience, publications or advisory roles, and a track record in consistent rubric application. Remote-US eligible and part-time weekly hours apply.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level training or equivalent in senior economics research review.
• Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic.
• Ability to apply multi-page rubrics consistently.
• Clear written reasoning citing methods, papers, or worked examples.

Responsibilities

• Review AI outputs against current senior economics research review methods, conventions, and prior work.
• Reproduce or sanity-check key derivations, calculations, or experimental claims.
• Flag dimensional, methodological, and citation errors with structured severity tags.
• Capture the corrected reasoning or worked example for training.
• Adjudicate disputed answers against textbooks, papers, or community standards.
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores in inter-rater calibration cycles.

Skills

Scientific reasoning

Method validation

Citation review

Quantitative analysis

Senior Economics Research review

Education

Graduate-level training or equivalent

Job description

Senior Economics Research Expert is a remote review track for evaluating AI outputs across senior economics research research review reasoning, calculations, and research workflows. Reviewers grade derivations and assumptions, reproduce key results, and document the correct method so the modeling team can train on it.

Why this role matters

Senior Economics Research research review models live or die on whether their derivations actually hold up under scrutiny. AuraOne uses scientific specialists to grade outputs the way a peer reviewer would — checking assumptions, reproducing key steps, and capturing the right method alongside the wrong one.

Responsibilities

• Review AI outputs against current senior economics research research review methods, conventions, and prior work for Senior Economics Research Expert assignments.
• Reproduce or sanity-check key derivations, calculations, or experimental claims.
• Flag dimensional, methodological, and citation errors with structured severity tags.
• Capture the corrected reasoning or worked example so the modeling team can train on it.
• Adjudicate disputed answers against textbooks, papers, or community standards.
• Maintain reviewer-quality scores in inter-rater calibration cycles.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level training or equivalent applied experience in senior economics research research review or a closely related field for Senior Economics Research Expert work.
• Hands-on experience publishing, teaching, or advising on the topic at a professional level.
• Comfort applying multi-page rubrics consistently across long batches.
• Clear written reasoning that cites methods, papers, or worked examples.
• Reliable async availability for at least 10 hours per week.

Example tasks

• Reproduce a senior economics research research review derivation from a model output and flag any algebraic or dimensional errors.
• Grade a model's literature summary against the cited papers and rate the citation quality.
• Adjudicate a disputed answer between two reviewers using textbook methods.
• Audit a 25-row batch for rubric consistency and report drift to the program lead.

Nice to have

• PhD, postdoc, or industry research experience in the topic area.
• Prior work reviewing AI-assisted research tooling and its failure modes.
• Multilingual fluency for non-English papers and corpora.

Skills

• Scientific reasoning
• Method validation
• Citation review
• Quantitative analysis
• Senior Economics Research research review

Work model

Remote — US-eligible. Remote · Independent specialist contractor. Employment type: CONTRACTOR. Applicants must be authorized to work from US.

Compensation

$150–$250 / hr