Computational Environmental Scientist (Contract, Remote)

$60 - $100 per hour

Part-time

Aligned Labs

We are looking to expand our team of expert consultants with 10 PhD Environmental Scientists for part-time, fully remote work supporting frontier AI research. Projects pay $60-100 USD per hour, with higher rates for experts with extensive publication records and tenure at leading institutions.

This role includes stress-testing leading AI models on research-level environmental science problems, creating and verifying complex questions and explanations in your area of expertise, and assessing whether AI-generated reasoning meets the standards of a trained environmental scientist.

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About the Company

About AlignedAt Aligned, we partner with the world's leading AI labs to push the frontier of AI knowledge in fields like STEM, medicine, finance, and the humanities. Our platform matches subject-matter experts (like you) with paid consulting work on frontier projects at these labs.

Required Qualifications

Fluent English reading and writing skills
PhD in Environmental Science, Environmental Engineering, or a closely related field
Hands-on experience in computational modeling, simulation, or large-scale data analysis
You build or apply quantitative models and work with large environmental datasets.

Ideal Backgrounds Include

Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and research scientists in university environmental science, environmental engineering, or earth and environmental systems departments
Scientists at government agencies such as the EPA, USGS, or equivalent national environmental and water agencies
Researchers at national laboratories or research institutes working on environmental modeling and simulation
Industry scientists in environmental consulting, water resources, energy, or corporate sustainability and risk analytics

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