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AI Strategy Consultant, Frontier Tech

Scale
Posted onFeb 23, 2026
LocationUnited States (Remote)
Employment typeFull-time
Salary$60 – $80 Hourly

As a member of our Frontier Tech Consultant team, you will play a critical role in advancing cutting-edge AI innovations by conducting high-impact experiments and ensuring seamless execution at the highest quality standards. Your work will directly contribute to Scale AI’s growth, shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

In this role, you will be working on various types of projects, including but not limited to: research experiments, dataset generation, data quality improvements, and in-depth technical analysis. You will tackle complex, technical and operational challenges while collaborating closely with Scale’s ML research scientists and SPM team.

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and results-driven, with strong problem-solving abilities and excellent communication skills. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is proactive in overcoming challenges, and is committed to delivering exceptional outcomes. If you are eager to contribute to the forefront of AI innovation, we encourage you to apply.

You will be responsible for:

  • Design and execute research experiments
  • Build and evaluate frontier LLM datasets
  • Develop training and testing material for frontier pipelines
  • Improve quality of existing and new products

Ideally you’d have:

  • Strong machine learning knowledge, either by being in the final years of a ML PhD career or having already graduated
  • Strong writing and verbal communication skills
  • An action-oriented mindset that balances creative problem solving with the scrappiness to ultimately deliver results
  • Analytical, planning, and process improvement capability
  • Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
  • Technical skills including familiarity with Python, GPU, AWS, API, LLM, ML, and SQL

Pay: $60-80/hr 

Commitment: This is a fully remote, US-based part-time (10-20 hours per week), on-going contract position staffed via HireArt. 

HireArt values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas, including CPT/OPT or employ corp-to-corp.

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PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.

About Us:

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Cisco, DLA Piper, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.

We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status. 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com. Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.

We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision

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Scale AI is a San Francisco-based data annotation platform that provides high-quality training data and full-stack AI infrastructure to power machine learning models for enterprises, governments, and AI labs worldwide.

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