Project Management AI Research Contributor

Aptura
Worldwide Remote
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Project management professionals with deep Excel expertise and experience in construction, IT, or infrastructure will find this contract role testing AI capabilities through task creation and evaluation.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with hands-on Excel experience in project management and a background in construction, IT, or infrastructure
    — “Deep hands-on Excel: project budgets, earned value, nested formulas, conditional formatting and debugging”
  • Individuals who have encountered AI shortcomings in their work and want to shape its training
    — “You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make”

Things to consider

  • The role requires task creation using human-built Excel models, not AI-generated ones
    — “No AI usage allowed”
  • Payment is task-based, with potential for extension based on performance
    — “Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance”

How to stand out

  • Highlight real-world Excel modeling examples from your project management experience
    — “Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work”
  • Demonstrate your ability to debug and improve existing Excel models
    — “extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief”
  • Emphasize your written communication skills and attention to detail in your application materials
    — “Strong written English communication skills. Attention to detail”
  • Showcase your ability to create detailed evaluation rubrics for AI performance
    — “Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · LowAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Individual

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • creates realistic Excel tasks for AI testing
  • writes precise criteria for AI evaluation
  • onboards and trains AI models
Typical background
project management experienceAI evaluation experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Project ManagementExcel ProficiencyAI Evaluation

Preferred

ConstructionInfrastructureIT

Stack & domain

ExcelProject ManagementAI ToolsCommunicationAttention To DetailConstructionInfrastructureIT

About the role

Original posting from Aptura via Ashby

ABOUT THE ROLE

Aptura is looking for Subject Matter Experts from project or programme management, in sectors such as construction, infrastructure or IT, who build project budgets, schedules and trackers in Excel. You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make. You will turn that experience into realistic Excel tasks that test how well AI does the work of a Project Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
  • Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
  • Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them

NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years in project, programme or PMO roles, in sectors such as construction, infrastructure, IT, business transformation or capital projects
  • Deep hands-on Excel: project budgets, earned value, nested formulas, conditional formatting and debugging
  • Strong written English communication skills.
  • Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  • Start Date : Immediate
  • Duration: Approximately 4–6 weeks
  • Payment: task-based. Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will then be qualified to do multiple tasks for the remainder of the project.

CONTRACT AND PAYMENT TERMS

  • You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
  • This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
  • Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
  • Your work at Aptura will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
  • Payments will be weekly following task completion.

GETTING STARTED

  • Apply with your details and CV. Choose an available 30-minute group walkthrough call.
  • Attend the walkthrough and create one original task from your own work. Submit the brief, the actual input workbook(s) needed to complete it. Input-file uploads are compulsory.
  • Write the brief yourself. Input workbooks must also be human-built. Use real data that has been sanitised, or public data with the source named. No AI usage allowed.
  • We run your task against current frontier AI models. If the models get it wrong, you then write a detailed yes-or-no rubric, and a reviewer signs off on the task with you.
  • Completing onboarding does not guarantee a job offer; selection remains subject to written approval of the task proposal.

ABOUT APTURA

Aptura is an applied AI and data company working with frontier labs to train AI systems on real professional work. We do this by building high-quality evaluation and training environments that teach AI agents to produce work that can be used in daily workflows.

Source: Aptura careers (Ashby)

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