Research Advisor - Human Frontier Collective (US)
About the role
HFC Research Advisor to help develop strategy, design, evaluate, and interpret advanced generative AI systems, collaborating across Scale AI and the Human Frontier Collective network to advance responsible AI research and practical evaluation frameworks.
Responsibilities
- 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 position Scale as the definitive leader in the industry
- Publications: Collaborate with Scale’s research team to co-author technical reports and research papers (e.g., SciPredict, PropensityBench, Professional Reasoning Benchmark)
- HFC Community: Become a foundational member of HFC; engage with a network of AI researchers and industry leaders
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience with strong, top-tier domain knowledge
- Educational background: bachelor’s, master’s, PhD, MD/DO, or JD with significant clinical, legal, or financial practice experience
- Demonstrated research experience, strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Hands-on experience with AI tools and technologies
- Self-driven, detail-oriented, collaborative mindset
- Open to candidates with backgrounds in Finance, Legal, Medical, or related fields as described
Skills
Benefits
- Flexible schedule (~5–20 hours per week)
- Part-time, contract opportunity
- Competitive pay: $300/hr USD

About Scale AI
Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI
Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.
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