Physics QA Lead - Remote
YO IT Consulting · Washington, United States · 2 wk ago
RemoteRemoteQuality AssuranceFull-time
About the role
This role is a fast-growing AI Data Services company delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your physics quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that physics training data is accurate, physically sound, clearly explained, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.
Responsibilities
- Spot-check physics items, identify quality issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
- Review AI-generated physics explanations, calculations, diagrams, derivations, experimental interpretations, and step-by-step reasoning.
- Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guidelines, workflow updates, and physics-specific quality expectations.
- Respond to questions around physical assumptions, formulas, units, derivations, diagrams, experimental setups, and rubric interpretation.
- DM inactive contributors, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues.
- Create and maintain physics documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
- Run onboarding/training calls for physics contributors.
- Flag misleading, numerically incorrect, physically impossible, unsafe, or poorly contextualized physics claims.
- Identify recurring quality gaps and improve physics QA workflows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Physics, Applied Physics, Engineering Physics, Astrophysics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a closely related quantitative/scientific field.
- Strong grasp of the English language to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback.
- 3+ years of experience in physics research, teaching, tutoring, laboratory work, science writing, academic review, engineering analysis, or related scientific workflows.
- Strong understanding of classical mechanics, electromagnetism, waves, optics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, quantum mechanics, relativity, units, dimensional analysis, and mathematical modeling.
- Ability to evaluate physics content against rubrics and identify issues such as incorrect assumptions, wrong formulas, unit errors, flawed reasoning, sign convention mistakes, physically impossible claims, or misleading explanations.
- Familiarity with tools or methods such as Python, MATLAB, Mathematica, LaTeX, laboratory methods, data analysis, simulations, scientific visualization, and numerical methods is preferred.
- Experience leading or supporting remote teams of educators, reviewers, researchers, annotators, science writers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
- Highly organized and able to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and documentation.
- Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, scientific QA, academic review, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.