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Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced Large Language Models.
Gridnaut Recruiting seeks professors in Finance, Accounting, Law, and other professional services domains to support a frontier-model evaluation project focused on coding and agentic workflows. The role involves designing and validating challenging benchmark tasks to identify reasoning and problem-solving gaps in AI models, building real-world tasks with executable tests, and analyzing model/agent behavior.
This is a W2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with placement at a leading AI Lab as part of their extended workforce.
Location: Remote (US-based)
Compensation: $70-$95/hour
Employment Type: Part-time
Posted: April 7, 2026
Key Responsibilities:
Task Design and Development: Design challenging, real-world domain-specific problems that serve as the foundation for agentic tasks. Problems should be constructed to target specific core capability loss failures.
Spec & Golden Solution Generation: Integrate problems into an agentic development environment using Python, including detailed instructions, golden solutions, and domain-specific feedback.
Evaluation and Analysis: Evaluate model performance on created tasks.
Headroom Identification: Identify tasks where target model fails to pass all tests, specifically classifying the failure as a logical reasoning failure.
Loss Extraction: Analyze the agent's steps (Agent Trajectory) to observe and extract core capability loss patterns from the model.
Core Qualifications:
Current or retired professor in Finance, Accounting, Law, or related fields
Degree in finance, accounting, law or relevant field
Ability to engage reliably for at least 30 hours/week during weekdays
Prior AI training, model evaluation, or data annotation experience preferred
Independent work capability and time management
Strong verbal, written, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
About Cincinnatus LLC:
Cincinnatus LLC is an enterprise staffing company partnering with technology firms to source skilled professionals for contingent opportunities. They serve as employer of record, handling W-2 employment, payroll, benefits, and compliance while placing employees within client teams.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Cincinnatus is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or any other legally protected characteristic.
DURATION
Contract, ongoing with potential for extension based on performance. Approximately 20 hours per week.
COMPENSATION
$82 per hour (hourly contract).
LOCATION
Fully remote. US-based applicants only.