Research Advisor - Human Frontier Collective (US)

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What it asks for · 4

• Professional Experience: 5+ years of relevant industry experience with strong, top-tier domain knowledge. Proven track record of operating at the top of their field and applying deep expertise in high-impact, real-world environments across finance, legal, medical, or related fields.
• Educational Background: Based on your specific expertise, we are seeking candidates who hold a bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, MD/DO, or JD degree, coupled with significant clinical, legal, or financial practice experience.
• Technical Expertise: Demonstrated research experience, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, hands-on experience with AI tools and technologies, and a keen interest in interdisciplinary AI applications.
• Flexible Schedule: ~5–20 hours per week, with the ability to set your own schedule around your commitments. Please note, this is a part-time, contract opportunity.

What the job covers

• Senior Advisory & Model Governance: Provide elite-level consultancy and leadership on model behavior and domain-specific logic, establishing the benchmarks for professional integrity.
• High-Impact Research Collaboration: Influence the technical roadmap by partnering across Scale AI's product, research, delivery, and GTM teams to design sophisticated, small-scale tasks that translate expert-level intuition into rigorous, computable frameworks for frontier model evaluation.
• Executive Client Engagement: Represent Scale AI and the HFC as a Subject Matter Expert during pivotal sales cycles, executive meetings, and conferences,
• Visionary Creation: Contribute to the creation of premier technical content and strategic GTM assets that ultimately helps position Scale as the definitive leader in the industry.
• Publications: Collaborate with Scale’s research team to co-author technical reports and research papers, boosting your academic visibility and professional recognition (e.g., SciPredict , PropensityBench , Professional Reasoning Benchmark ).
• HFC Community: Become a foundational member of HFC; a supportive, interdisciplinary network of innovators. Gain exclusive access to a community of industry leaders and AI researchers dedicated to advancing the frontier of data.

Degree language

• Educational Background: Based on your specific expertise, we are seeking candidates who hold a bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, MD/DO, or JD degree, coupled with significant clinical, legal, or financial practice experience.

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