Astronomer & Space Scientist

Key Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses for scientific accuracy, logical soundness, completeness, and clarity across astronomy & space science topics.
• Challenge language models with realistic scenarios, calculations, and “research-style” reasoning tasks (without overclaiming certainty).
• Review and refine AI-generated prompts, model answers, and step-by-step solutions (units, assumptions, approximations, uncertainty).
• Provide structured feedback identifying conceptual errors, bad assumptions, missing constraints, misused formulas, unit mistakes, or misleading/overconfident claims.
• Assess performance on topics such as: Orbital mechanics, Stellar/galactic astrophysics, Cosmology basics, Planetary science, Space physics, Data interpretation.
• Help shape AI communication standards for scientific content, especially how models state assumptions, uncertainty, and limits of inference.

Your Profile

• 4+ years of professional experience in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science, space physics, heliophysics, cosmology, observational astronomy, mission science/operations, instrumentation, or a closely related space science domain.
• Deep knowledge of core fundamentals relevant to your specialty, such as classical mechanics, electromagnetism, radiative processes, stellar/galactic physics, orbital mechanics, coordinate systems, time standards, statistics/uncertainty, and scientific modeling assumptions.
• Strong ability to sanity-check results (orders of magnitude, unit consistency, limiting cases, error propagation) and communicate limitations responsibly.
• Bachelor’s degree required (physics/astronomy/space science/engineering or closely related); Master’s/PhD strongly preferred.
• Experience with AI data training, annotation, red-teaming, or evaluating AI-generated technical content is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with tools/workflows like Python/NumPy/SciPy, data pipelines, catalog queries, photometry/spectroscopy concepts, or mission datasets is a plus.