Simulation Researcher - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Illinois; Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote projects

Job summary

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. Flexible, remote, and always project-available. You’ll craft problems that reveal gaps in physical reasoning, review AI solutions, and produce gold-standard explanations to clarify complex physics.

We value graduate-level physics, strong written English, and the ability to work across multiple physics domains. Remote, flexible projects await with competitive earnings per hour.

Qualifications

• Graduate-level physics background or equivalent research experience.
• Clear written English with precise explanations.
• Ability to tackle problems across multiple core physics areas.

Responsibilities

• Craft problems that expose weak physical reasoning, from undergraduate mechanics to graduate-level theory.
• Review AI solutions for dimensional errors and skipped steps, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the gold-standard solution when models fall short, showing physics clearly at every step.

Skills

Graduate-level physics

Clear written English

Interdisciplinary physics

Education

Graduate-level physics background or equivalent research experience

Job description

Models can recite physics and still get it wrong: dimensional errors, misapplied approximations, and derivations that skip the step where the physics actually happens.

As a Physicist you'll evaluate AI reasoning across mechanics, E&M, quantum, and thermodynamics, and write solutions with the care of a good problem-set grader.

What you’ll actually do

• Craft problems that expose weak physical reasoning, from undergraduate mechanics to graduate-level theory.
• Review AI solutions for dimensional errors, misapplied approximations, and skipped steps, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the gold-standard solution when the model falls short, showing the physics clearly at every step.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Physicist, Research Scientist.

What we look for

• Graduate-level physics background or equivalent research experience.
• Comfort working problems across at least two core areas of physics.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.
• No degree required. We care about what you can do, not where you learned it.

Compensation

Up to $40 – $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $10k–$100k+ a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.