Drilling/Production Engineer

About the role

Handshake is looking for energy industry professionals to support AI research through flexible, hourly contract work. This is not a traditional job. You'll draw on your hands-on experience with industrial operations, plant performance, and energy asset management to evaluate AI-generated content and provide feedback that helps AI better understand operations workflows and performance engineering practices. This is an ongoing, project-based opportunity you can take on alongside anything else you have going on.

Details

This project involves using your professional experience and hands-on knowledge of the tools you use in your daily work to create expert-level training data and evaluate AI-generated responses for accuracy and relevance. No prior AI experience required.

• Fully remote with a flexible, asynchronous schedule and no minimum hour requirement; most contributors work approximately 5–20 hours per week when participating in an active project.
• Placement depends on current project needs, with opportunities to be considered for future projects as they become available.

Qualifications

At least 2 years of professional experience in industrial operations, plant performance, or energy asset management, in roles such as:

• Plant Performance Engineer or Reliability Engineer
• SCADA Engineer or Drilling/Production Engineer
• Generation Asset Analyst
• Or equivalent roles in the energy industry

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following tools:

• AVEVA PI
• WinCC
• Oracle MDM
• Power BI
• Bloomberg Terminal

Strong written communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and asynchronously with AI research teams.