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Frontier models are now tested on graduate-level science, and only people who work in the field can write and check those problems. These projects ask researchers to set hard questions in their discipline, solve them step by step, and find where a model's reasoning breaks.
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The hiring partner is engaging Materials Scientists (Nanoparticle Sizing & Lot Release) to contribute specialized expertise to a customer’s project focused on advanced nanomaterial evaluation.
$40–$100/hr
The hiring partner is recruiting US-based loan underwriters and loan officers for an academic research study run by researchers at Stanford University.
$70one-off
The hiring partner is partnering with a leading AI research lab to engage experienced Market Research, Consumer Insights, and Marketing Strategy professionals to act as end-users of a cutting-edge AI product.
$120/hr
Help define how frontier AI models reason about chemistry.
$90–$140/hr
Help define how frontier AI models reason about physics.
$90–$140/hr
Help define how frontier AI models reason about biology and the life sciences.
$90–$140/hr
The hiring partner is engaging Nuclear & Radiological Security Experts to support a customer’s initiative focused on defining standards for nuclear-safety evaluations, information abstraction, and escalation protocols.
$50–$90/hr
In this role, you will investigate how learning algorithms, training data, and evaluation methodologies interact to produce stronger reasoning, generalization, and agent capabilities.
$600K–$1.8M/yr
In this role, you will take technical ownership of the distributed systems and platforms that enable researchers to train increasingly capable models, execute large-scale experiments, and…
$600K–$1.8M/yr
In this role, you will work across language models, multimodal systems, robotics, and autonomous agents, developing models optimized for specific applications and environments.
$600K–$1.8M/yr
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs.
$70–$100/hr
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs.
$70–$100/hr
Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge research team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced LLMs.
$70–$100/hr
Schedule: Flexible—you can choose the hours and days you work, including weekends if desired as long as you're active.
$60–$120/hr
The hiring partner is seeking experienced life sciences researchers with strong, hands-on Python skills to contribute to projects focused on evaluating and improving advanced AI systems.
$60–$120/hr
The hiring partner is engaging Domain Contributor - Evaluation Specialists to support an internal project evaluating and improving advanced AI models.
$30–$60/hr
The hiring partner is engaging Research Evaluation Specialists (PhD or Masters / Researcher) to contribute expert insight in developing rigorous test material for advanced AI model…
$30–$60/hr
The hiring partner is seeking experienced Clinical Research and Survey Methodology Experts to support the development and refinement of physician-focused healthcare market research surveys.
$200/hr
Based in San Francisco, California, the hiring partner is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems.
Rate on request
The hiring partner is engaging Agriculture, Forestry & Environmental Experts to collaborate on a customer project aimed at advancing sustainable practices and environmental stewardship.
$40–$60/hr
Of the 86 science & research roles open now, 50 publish an hourly rate. The median is $85 an hour, half of them pay between $70 and $115, and the highest pays $250. Every role shows its terms before you apply, and applying is free.
23 of 86 are open worldwide. 18 name the countries they accept, most often United States, United Kingdom and India. 45 do not say, so check the role's own terms before applying. With a profile, Tier1 checks each role's countries and languages against yours.
No. These roles hire scientists and researchers for what they already know, not for experience building AI. Where a role needs a particular degree, tool or language, its page says so.