Fast Facts
Join Handshake as a First-Line Supervisor of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers for an AI research project, providing valuable feedback to enhance AI models based on your field experience.
Responsibilities: Evaluate AI model outputs and develop prompts reflecting your expertise in mechanics and repair, ensuring the accuracy and relevance of AI responses.
Skills: At least 4 years of professional experience in supervision or related roles in mechanics, installation, or repair; strong communication skills for providing feedback.
Qualifications: Preference for candidates with supervisory experience and a background in evaluating employee performance and safety standards.
Location: The position is fully remote and asynchronous, allowing you to work from anywhere with flexible hours averaging 5-20 hours per week.
Compensation: $75 - $75 / Hourly
Overview
Handshake is recruiting First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairer Professionalsto contribute to an hourly, temporary AI research project—but there’s no AI experience needed. In this program, you’ll leverage your professional experience to evaluate what AI models produce in your field, assess content related to your field of work, and deliver clear, structured feedback that strengthens the model’s understanding of your workplace tasks and language. The Handshake AI opportunity runs year-round, with project opportunities opening periodically across different areas of expertise.
Details
- The position is remote and asynchronous; work independently from wherever you are.
- The hours are flexible, with no minimum commitment, but most average 5-20 hrs
- The work includes developing prompts for AI models that reflect your field, and then evaluating responses.
- You’ll learn new skills and contribute to how AI is used in your field
- Your placement into a project will be dependent on project availability—if you apply now and can’t work on this project, more will be available soon.
Qualifications
- You have at least 4 years of professional experience in one or more of the following types of work.
- The examples below reflect the types of real-world responsibilities that you might have had in your role that will give you the context needed to evaluate and train high-quality AI models
- Inspect, test, and measure completed work using hand tools or gauges to verify conformance to standards or repair requirements.
- Inspect and monitor work areas, examine tools and equipment, and provide employee safety training to prevent, detect, and correct unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
- Interpret specifications, blueprints, or job orders to construct templates and lay out reference points for workers.
- Monitor employees' work levels and review work performance.
- Perform skilled repair or maintenance operations using hand or power tools, hydraulic presses or shears, or welding equipment.
- Compute estimates and actual costs of materials, labor, or outside contractors.
- Monitor tool and part inventories and the condition and maintenance of shops to ensure adequate working conditions.
- Requisition materials and supplies such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.
- Confer with personnel (management, engineering, quality control, customers, or union representatives) to coordinate work activities, resolve employee grievances, or assess resource needs.
- Determine schedules, sequences, and assignments for work activities based on priority, equipment availability, and personnel skill levels.
- Examine objects, systems, or facilities and analyze information to determine required installations, services, or repairs.
- Counsel employees about work-related issues and assist them in correcting job-skill deficiencies.
- Recommend or initiate personnel actions such as hiring, promotions, transfers, discharges, or disciplinary measures.
- Investigate accidents or injuries and prepare reports of findings.
- Conduct or arrange training in safety, repair, maintenance techniques, operational procedures, or equipment use.
- Develop, implement, or evaluate maintenance policies and procedures.
- Meet with vendors or suppliers to discuss products used in repair work.
- Participate in budget preparation and administration, including purchasing, documentation, and monitoring departmental expenditures.
- Review, evaluate, accept, and coordinate completion of contracted work bids.
- Compile operational or personnel records such as time and production logs, inventory data, repair or maintenance statistics, or test results.
- Develop or implement electronic maintenance programs or computer information management systems.
- Design equipment configurations to meet personnel needs.
- You’re able to participate in asynchronous work in partnership with leading AI labs.
Application Process
- Create a Handshake account
- Upload your resume and verify your identity
- Get matched and onboarded into relevant projects
- Start working and earning
Work authorization information
F-1 students who are eligible for CPT or OPT may be eligible for projects on Handshake AI. Work with your Designated School Official to determine your eligibility. If your school requires a CPT course, Handshake AI may not meet your school’s requirements. STEM OPT is not supported. See our Help Center article for more information on what types of work authorizations are supported on Handshake AI.
