Environmental Scientist & Engineer Expert

Environmental scientists and engineers build expert-level evaluation and training data for frontier AI labs. AfterQuery partners with frontier AI labs to build expert-level evaluation and training data. We are hiring environmental scientists and environmental engineers as contractors to review, create, and rank technical content that teaches AI models how real environmental work is done. You will evaluate AI-generated site assessments, permitting and compliance analysis, remediation design, air and water quality modeling, and impact studies for technical accuracy, and create expert demonstrations drawn from your own practice. The work is paid hourly, fully remote, and fully async - you choose when and how much you work.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated environmental analysis for technical and regulatory accuracy
• Create expert demonstrations of site assessment, permitting, and remediation workflows
• Rank and label model responses against environmental standards and regulations

Required qualifications

• Degree in environmental science, environmental engineering, geology, hydrology, or a closely related field
• 2+ years of professional environmental work (assessment, permitting, compliance, remediation, or modeling)
• Strong written communication skills

Preferred qualifications

• PE license, PG license, or CHMM certification
• Experience with NEPA, CERCLA, RCRA, Clean Air Act, or Clean Water Act work
• Fluency with modeling or GIS tools (AERMOD, MODFLOW, ArcGIS)

Why apply

• Fully remote and async - work on your own schedule
• Competitive hourly pay for your environmental expertise
• Shape how frontier AI models reason about environmental systems

Where you can work

This role is 100% remote: you can work from any country except Andorra, Afghanistan, Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Belize, DR Congo, Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Chile, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Eritrea, Fiji, Micronesia, Gabon, Grenada, Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Haiti, Iraq, Iran, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, Kiribati, Comoros, St. Kitts and Nevis, North Korea, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Marshall Islands, Mali, Myanmar, Macau, Mauritania, Maldives, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Nepal, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Palestine, Palau, Paraguay, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, San Marino, Somalia, Suriname, South Sudan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Syria, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uganda, Uruguay, Vatican City, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Venezuela, Vanuatu, Samoa, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.