Expert Work
Chemical Engineer, AI Model Evaluation
Status: Open
- Pay
- $35–$49/hr
- Location
- Remote — (United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or European Union)
- Employment type
- Part-time
- Posted
- 2026-09-21
About this opportunity
Put frontier AI models through real process engineering problems and mark where their reasoning breaks. Remote, hourly, first batch about 10 hours. For chemical engineers with four or more years of hands-on industry work.
Required skills
- Chemical engineering
- Process design
- Process safety
- Thermodynamics
- Heat & mass transfer
- Separations
- Process control
- Scale-up
- Technical review
- Professional English
What you'll do
- Evaluate AI answers across chemical engineering topics for technical accuracy, logical soundness and completeness.
- Push models with realistic scenarios: plant troubleshooting, scale-up questions, sizing logic, process control reasoning.
- Mark up model output where assumptions are missing, constraints are ignored, units are inconsistent or the recommendation is unsafe.
- Review and refine prompts, step-by-step solutions and the explanations attached to them.
- Cover material and energy balances, phase behavior and thermodynamic property use, unit operations and sizing, distillation and separations feasibility, process control, process safety, and operability at scale.
- Set the standard for how models state assumptions, limitations and professional judgment.
- Say clearly when the right answer is to escalate to a licensed engineer or a site expert.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in chemical engineering or closely related, Master's/PhD or PE/Chartered strongly preferred
- Minimum 4 years of professional chemical engineering experience, hands-on rather than purely academic
- Based in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the European Union
- English at C1 or above, written and verbal
- Passes the expert survey before a bootcamp seat is allocated
- Available for the paid bootcamp on Monday and production from Tuesday
- Able to commit roughly 10 hours inside the first batch window, closing Sunday
- Joins the Sovrano Discord before the bootcamp
- Independent contractor, invoices Sovrano directly
Preferred qualifications
- Working familiarity with PFDs and P&IDs, Aspen Plus or HYSYS, CHEMCAD, PSM documentation, HAZOP or LOPA.
- PE or Chartered Engineer status.
- Prior AI data training, red-teaming or technical content evaluation.