| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| AI PhD Student Researcher - Fall 2026 Handshake AI is seeking a PhD Student Researcher to work on novel RLHF/GRPO pipelines, instruction-following refinements, reasoning-trace supervision, multilingual/long-horizon/domain-specific benchmarks, automatic vs. human preference studies, robustness diagnostics, active-learning loops, data value estimation, synthetic data generation, and low-resource fine-tuning strategies. The goal is to produce an archive-ready manuscript or top-tier conference submission. | Post-trainEval Gate | 9 |
| AI Tutor, Electrochemistry & Functional Materials Specialist (contract), Handshake AI This role involves designing and evaluating chemistry prompts for AI models, focusing on scientific reasoning and identifying model breakdowns. The specialist will act as a subject matter expert in electrochemistry and functional materials, applying adversarial prompting and assessing the accuracy of AI-generated responses. |
| Eval Gate |
| 7 |
| AI Tutor, Organic & Polymer Chemistry Specialist (NMR/Spectroscopy) (contract), Handshake AI This role focuses on evaluating AI models in chemistry, specifically using expertise in organic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and spectroscopy (NMR) to design prompts, assess model outputs, and identify reasoning errors. The specialist will contribute to quality standards and provide feedback to the AI team. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| AI Tutor, Biophysical & Computational Chemistry Specialist (contract), Handshake AI Role focuses on evaluating AI models in chemistry, designing prompts, assessing outputs, and identifying reasoning errors. Requires PhD in Chemistry and experience in AI data annotation or RLHF. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| AI Tutor, Biology Specialist (contract), Handshake AI The role focuses on evaluating and stress-testing complex scientific prompts for large language models, specifically in biology. The specialist will design high-difficulty prompts, identify reasoning errors and weaknesses in model outputs, and apply adversarial prompting techniques. This is a research-oriented role focused on improving AI model capabilities through expert evaluation. | Eval Gate | 7 |
| AI Tutor, Physics Specialist (contract), Handshake AI This role focuses on evaluating AI models, specifically in physics, by crafting and assessing challenging problems, probing model reasoning, and identifying failures using adversarial prompting. It involves providing expert critique of AI responses and ensuring quality benchmarks are met. Prior experience in AI data annotation or RLHF is required, with a PhD in Physics or a related field. | Eval GatePost-train | 7 |
| Machine Learning PhDs - AI Trainer Machine Learning PhDs needed for hourly contract work to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback on machine learning reasoning, proof construction, and technical problem-solving. This role focuses on assessing AI responses for accuracy, rigor, and relevance to real-world physics research. | Eval Gate | 7 |