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Principal Engineer / Professor — Technical Expert
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About the Role
Opportunity Snapshot Pay: $80- $185/hour Commitment: Flexible — fits alongside your current role You’ll need: Master’s or PhD in an engineering or physical science field, plus principal-level industry experience or a faculty appointment Your tasks: Build challenging technical problems from your own domain and define what makes an answer correct micro1 is engaging principal-level engineers, scientists, and faculty to design the technical problems that measure what AI systems can actually do. Your domain expertise is what matters here — no prior AI experience required.
What You'll Do
- Design difficult technical problems from your own 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 expert 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.
- Master’s or PhD in engineering, physics, materials, or a closely related field.
- Principal, staff, or fellow-level experience at a major engineering organization, a national lab, or a faculty appointment at a leading university.
- Deep technical depth in at least one area, with hands-on ownership of the work.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Technical Depth in a Subdomain, Engineering Judgment Under Constraints, Knowing When an Answer Is Wrong, advanced engineering and materials
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We track 346 open micro1 roles on AI Work Expert. Across 584 hourly listings, the typical micro1 rate runs from $50 to $90 an hour; this role lists $85-$185/h. Our reliability rating for micro1 is reliable, with an onboarding time of 1-3 days.
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