AfterQueryCoding & software eval
Reliability and Quality Engineering Expert
$115/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
This is a remote, project-based role for reliability, quality, process and test engineers with 3+ years of full time experience who use statistics in their work. You will author realistic engineering analysis problems drawn from your work, covering designed experiments, statistical process control, and reliability and failure data, and work each one through to a reference answer that frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. Work is fully async with no fixed hours, a minimum of 10 hours per week and no maximum, and you can scale up or down week to week. This is an independent contractor role with ongoing project work, paid weekly via Stripe, with no screen recording, keystroke monitoring, or idle timers. We are not looking for site reliability engineers or software engineers.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Author realistic engineering analysis problems drawn from your work: designed experiments, process control, reliability and failure data
- Work each problem through to a reference answer, with the reasoning behind every step
- Catch the analysis mistakes that look reasonable but only a practitioner would spot
Candidate background
Required qualifications
- Degree in engineering, physics or statistics
- 3+ years full time in a reliability, quality, process or test role (internships and school don't count)
- Hands-on experience with design of experiments, statistical process control or reliability analysis
- Comfortable with Minitab, JMP, Python or R
- Strong written English and able to explain an analysis clearly
- Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications
- Master's degree in engineering or statistics
- Experience with capability studies, measurement system analysis, life data analysis or uncertainty quantification
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
Posted by AfterQuery, reproduced here so you can judge the role before clicking. Original posting ↗
This is a remote, project-based role for reliability, quality, process and test engineers with 3+ years of full time experience who use statistics in their work. You will author realistic engineering analysis problems drawn from your work, covering designed experiments, statistical process control, and reliability and failure data, and work each one through to a reference answer that frontier AI labs use to test model judgment. Work is fully async with no fixed hours, a minimum of 10 hours per week and no maximum, and you can scale up or down week to week. This is an independent contractor role with ongoing project work, paid weekly via Stripe, with no screen recording, keystroke monitoring, or idle timers. We are not looking for site reliability engineers or software engineers.
Responsibilities - Author realistic engineering analysis problems drawn from your work: designed experiments, process control, reliability and failure data - Work each problem through to a reference answer, with the reasoning behind every step - Catch the analysis mistakes that look reasonable but only a practitioner would spot
Required qualifications - Degree in engineering, physics or statistics - 3+ years full time in a reliability, quality, process or test role (internships and school don't count) - Hands-on experience with design of experiments, statistical process control or reliability analysis - Comfortable with Minitab, JMP, Python or R - Strong written English and able to explain an analysis clearly - Able to commit at least 10 hours per week
Preferred qualifications - Master's degree in engineering or statistics - Experience with capability studies, measurement system analysis, life data analysis or uncertainty quantification
Why apply - Work stays in your specialty, judged on engineering judgment rather than volume - Set your own hours and scale up or down week to week - Weekly pay via Stripe - Your judgment shapes how the next generation of AI handles engineering analysis
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Coding & software eval roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from AfterQuery's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Coding & software eval
Across 393 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 14 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $120 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $95. This role's top rate, $115, is in the middle half. Of the 141 distinct rates we count, 96 are lower and 44 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 137 | $50 to $400 · median $100 |
| micro1 | 46 | $35 to $350 · median $110 |
| Handshake AI | 43 | $47 to $125 · median $80 |
| Meridial (Invisible) | 34 | $22 to $150 · median $60 |
| Mercor | 33 | $60 to $200 · median $105 |
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- First seen here on 6 Oct 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by AfterQuery
- First seen by AIPayList
- Last seen live
- Listing ID
- 1791322466883
Pay as the source states it: “$115/hr”.
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