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Completed PhD in a STEM field
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Remote contractor role for STEM PhD holders with hands-on research experience. Work involves creating and reviewing challenging technical problems, supplying solutions and reasoning, and defining objective grading criteria. The listing states pay of $45–$90 per hour and describes the commitment as flexible. Country eligibility should be verified on the official posting.
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Explore the remote job marketPhD Scientist — STEM Expert at micro1
Job Title: PhD Scientist - STEM Expert
Job Type: Contractor
Location: Remote(Worldwide)
Opportunity Snapshot
Pay: $45 - $90/hour
Commitment: Flexible — fits alongside your current role
Location: Fully remote
You’ll need: A completed PhD in a STEM field, plus hands-on research experience
Your tasks: Build difficult technical problems from your own research and define what makes an answer correct
These tasks are hard to build, and that’s the point. We’re looking for people with genuine depth in their field: the problems where the textbook answer isn’t enough, where the right approach depends on reading the constraints correctly, where a plausible-looking answer is quietly wrong.
What you’ll do
Design difficult technical problems drawn from your own research 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 researcher 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.
What we’re looking for
Completed PhD in a STEM field. This is a hard requirement.
Hands-on research experience — work you did yourself, not work you read about.
Wet lab, research lab, or academic experience is strongly preferred.
Able to explain why an answer is correct clearly enough that another researcher could verify it.
Publications or a record of research contribution is a strong plus.
Prior experience on AI training or evaluation projects is a plus, not a requirement.
How the selection process works
Apply and complete the screening questions
Complete the AI interview for this role — it’s how your expertise gets in front of the client
Profile review
Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up
Working remotely at micro1
micro1 builds human-expertise data and evaluation infrastructure for AI models and agents. It recruits core-team employees and domain experts for AI training projects.
- Headquarters
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Founded
- 2022
Expert opportunities are remote and can be flexible. International applicants are considered, subject to country exclusions and each project's requirements. Core-team work arrangements vary by opening; check the individual posting.
Apply through the official posting. Expert applicants complete an AI interview and skills certification, followed by project selection and onboarding. Certification does not guarantee a project or immediate work.