Member of Technical Staff, Model Training (Applied Research) (Remote AI Evaluation Contract)

If you're passionate about testing the boundaries of cutting-edge technology, Jobtacular has your next breakthrough engagement. We're placing an exceptional Member of Technical Staff, Model Training (Applied Research) (Remote AI Evaluation Contract) earning $600,000 - $1,800,000/year to work directly on high-impact systems. You'll team up with frontier research labs to construct gold-standard benchmarks and stress-test machine reasoning using your deep expertise in Model Training & Adaptation, Multimodal AI, Robotics & Agent Learning, Applied ML Evaluation. No commute, high hourly yield, and pure technical impact.

The Mission & Daily Problems You'll Tackle

• Develop specialized models for complex applications, including multimodal understanding, robotic perception and control, and autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, and tool use.
• Build simulation-based training and evaluation environments to study policy learning, task generalization, and the transfer of capabilities from simulated to real-world settings.
• Combine expert demonstrations, human feedback, synthetic datasets, and environment-generated trajectories into effective training datasets, reward signals, and learning curricula.
• Develop specialized models that power the client's flow ecosystem, improving data generation, annotation, quality assurance, and automated grading workflows.
• Incorporate expert corrections and model performance feedback into iterative training cycles to continuously improve accuracy, robustness, and task success.
• Optimize models for production inference, balancing quality, latency, throughput, and computational efficiency against frontier-model baselines.
• Collaborate with research and platform engineering teams to transition promising prototypes into scalable, production-ready model deployments.

Your Background & Superpowers

• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to build maintainable systems and move research prototypes toward production.
• Familiarity with model adaptation techniques such as fine-tuning, distillation, imitation learning, or reinforcement learning.
• Strong experimental judgment and the ability to independently identify performance bottlenecks, evaluate trade-offs, and iterate toward effective solutions.
• Experience with robotics, embodied AI, vision-language-action models, or simulation-based policy learning.
• Familiarity with agent frameworks, tool-using models, and environment-driven training.
• Experience with synthetic data generation, human-in-the-loop learning, or automated evaluation systems.
• Knowledge of inference optimization techniques, including quantization, batching, model compression, and efficient serving.

The Numbers: Pay, Hours & Autonomy

• Compensation Rate: $600,000 - $1,800,000/year (verified contractor remuneration)
• Work Arrangement: 100% Remote / Work From Home
• Eligible Remote Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and South Africa
• Core Competencies: Model Training & Adaptation, Multimodal AI, Robotics & Agent Learning, Applied ML Evaluation, Inference Optimization & Model Deployment
• Hiring Lead: Alex Rivera (Head of AI Sourcing) at Jobtacular

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