Economics AI Trainer (PhD)
weekday-1
United States
Posted Sep 9, 2025
- Part-time
- Remote
- Weekday's Client via platform
- Mid-Senior level
weekday-1
United States
Posted Sep 9, 2025
This role for one of Weekday's clients.
We are currently helping hire for one of the leading AI labs (via one of our partners); helping them train their AI models.
Have you been curious as to how LLMs generate expert answers and would you like to contribute to their development? There are a bunch of gaps in the understanding of these LLMs in certain key specialised areas (like economics). We require your help in building these models much better (and thereby expansion of human understanding of these fields).
What exactly would do?
You’d be guiding research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance in economics domain.
You will be evaluating advanced economics tasks and solutions and provide clear, written feedback
Requirements
Requirements:
🎓 Education: PhD in Economics from a top tier university
💼 Work experience: 2+ years of academic experience (research/teaching) or professional experience (scientist, engineer or researcher)
📍 Location: Must be currently based out of the US
Benefits
💵 Compensation: $70 to $90 per hour (avg $80 hourly rate)
🕒 Time commitment: 20 hours per week commitment (can go to ~40)
⏳ Project duration: 4-8 weeks
Flexible, remote work that will have a significant impact on the development of advanced AI models
Async work and communication
Work type: Part-time
Industry: Internet and Artificial Intelligence
You would not be employed full-time and will be paid as an independent contractor.
At Weekday (backed by YC; also Product Hunt #1 product of the day), we are building the next frontier in hiring. We have built the largest database of white collar talent in India and have built outreach tools on top of it to generate highest response rates.At Weekday (backed by YC; also Product Hunt #1 product of the day), we are building the next frontier in hiring. We have built the largest database of white collar talent in India and have built outreach tools on top of it to generate highest response rates.