$100–$200 per hour
100% remote
Part-time
5 or more hours a week, you choose when
Work on the cutting edge of AI research, on your own schedule, and get paid for the physics expertise you already have.
The AI systems everyone is talking about are trained and tested by experts who can reason through difficult technical problems. The teams building them need physicists who can create realistic research questions, judge whether an AI's analysis is correct, write the solution a specialist would give, and explain precisely where its reasoning breaks down. Your judgment helps shape models that can handle advanced physics, from statistical mechanics to quantum information.
This is that work, done remotely around your current research or other commitments.
What you'll do
Work through questions involving replicated random-bond Ising and Ashkin-Teller models, including problems about the Nishimori line
Produce well-documented solutions or detailed critiques, applying Kramers-Wannier duality and quenched disorder averaging
Use numerical simulations to study domain-wall free energy in the 4-state Potts model, then interpret the results
Review and adjudicate technical work on the toric-code threshold and noncontractible loop defects
Why this is worth your time
Get paid $100–$200 an hour to build real AI skills, on top of your current work
Work directly with frontier AI tools and see how they are built, tested and improved, experience most physicists will not have for years
Build a career edge for what comes next: AI is reshaping physics research, and the physicists who understand it from the inside will lead that change
Fully remote and flexible, no fixed shifts, no commute
Who this is for
PhD in physics or equivalent experience, with a specialization in statistical physics, quantum information or condensed matter theory
Hands-on research or project experience applying square-lattice self-duality and working with Kramers-Wannier duality and quenched disorder averaging
Fluent in English
No AI experience needed. You bring the expertise; we bring the training on the tools.
Pay and details
$100–$200 per hour, paid hourly as an independent contractor
5 or more hours a week, you choose when; fully remote, United States
How to apply
Apply on OpenTrain (about two minutes; upload your resume).
Complete a short application on the hiring platform.
If shortlisted, take a conversational AI interview with technical questions and a coding challenge, whenever it suits you. Most people hear back within days.
Ready to put your physics expertise to work at the frontier of AI? Apply today.
About OpenTrain AI
OpenTrain AI connects experienced professionals with paid, part-time AI training work: shaping and improving the AI systems that companies are building right now.