Epidemiology Specialist – Freelance AI Trainer
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Job Description
Epidemiology specialist evaluating language models on disease research and public health scenarios. Documenting reasoning failures and improving AI prompts and evaluation metrics.
Responsibilities:
- Converse with language models on real-world epidemiological problems and theoretical scenarios
- Verify factual accuracy and logical soundness
- Capture reproducible error traces
- Suggest improvements to prompt engineering and evaluation metrics
- Document model failure modes to harden model reasoning
- Help train AI to support scientific discovery, public health insights, and evidence-based decision-making
Requirements:
- Expertise in study design, disease surveillance, outbreak investigation, biostatistics, risk factor analysis, transmission dynamics, public health interventions, and evidence synthesis
- Ability to address 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
- 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 and ability to “show your work”
- Secure computer and high-speed internet as a contractor
Benefits:
- Pay range of $8-to- $65 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating experience, expertise, and geographic location
- As a contractor, supply a secure computer and high-speed internet
- Company-sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply

