Epidemiology Specialist - Freelance AI Trainer Project
Epidemiology Specialist – AI Trainer
About the role
We’re looking for epidemiology specialists who live and breathe study design, disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, biostatistics, risk factor analysis, transmission dynamics, public health interventions, and evidence synthesis. You’ll challenge advanced language models on topics like cohort and case-control studies, incidence and prevalence, R₀ and herd immunity, confounding and bias, causal inference, diagnostic test performance, and global health surveillance systems—documenting every failure mode so we can harden model reasoning.
Responsibilities
- Converse with the model on real-world epidemiological problems and theoretical scenarios
- Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness
- Capture reproducible error traces
- Suggest improvements to our prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
Requirements
- A PhD degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, or a closely related field is ideal
- Peer-reviewed publications, applied research in population health, or work in public health agencies or field epidemiology signal fit
- Clear, metacognitive communication—“showing your work”—is essential
Qualifications
A PhD degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, or a closely related field is ideal; peer-reviewed publications, applied research in population health, or work in public health agencies or field epidemiology signal fit. Clear, metacognitive communication—“showing your work”—is essential.
Skills
Expertise in study design, disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, biostatistics, risk factor analysis, transmission dynamics, public health interventions, and evidence synthesis. Clear, metacognitive communication skills are essential.
Benefits
N/A
Pay
We offer a pay range of $8-to-$65 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location. Final offer amounts may vary from the pay range listed above.
Schedule
Remote