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Nuclear Technician - AI Trainer (Contract)

Handshake

Handshake

Software Engineering, Data Science
United States · Remote
USD 85-85 / hour
Posted on Dec 17, 2025

Location

Remote (USA)

Employment Type

Contract

Location Type

Remote

Department

AI Trainer

Compensation

  • $85.00 per hour

For cash compensation, we set standard ranges for all U.S.-based roles based on function, level, and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Overview

Handshake is recruiting Nuclear Technicians Professionals to 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

    • Follow nuclear equipment operational policies and procedures that ensure environmental safety.

    • Conduct surveillance testing to determine the safety of nuclear equipment.

    • Monitor nuclear reactor equipment performance to identify operational inefficiencies, hazards, or maintenance needs.

    • Test plant equipment to ensure proper operation.

    • Apply safety tags to equipment requiring maintenance.

    • Follow radiation-worker safety policies and procedures to ensure personnel safety.

    • Modify, devise, or maintain nuclear equipment used in operations.

    • Monitor instruments, gauges, or recording devices under the direction of nuclear experimenters.

    • Perform testing, maintenance, repair, or upgrading of accelerator systems.

    • Warn maintenance workers of radiation hazards and direct them to vacate hazardous areas.

    • Calculate equipment operating factors—such as radiation times, dosages, temperatures, gamma intensities, or pressures—using standard formulas and conversion tables.

    • Measure the intensity and identify the types of radiation in work areas, equipment, or materials using radiation detectors or other instruments.

    • Communicate with accelerator maintenance personnel to ensure readiness of support systems (vacuum, water cooling, radio-frequency power sources).

    • Identify and implement appropriate decontamination procedures based on equipment and the size, nature, and type of contamination.

    • Decontaminate objects by cleaning with soap or solvents or by abrading with brushes, buffing machines, or sandblasting machines.

    • Collect air, water, gas, or solid samples for testing to determine radioactivity levels or ensure proper radioactive containment.

    • Determine or recommend radioactive decontamination procedures according to equipment characteristics and degree of contamination.

    • Set up equipment that automatically detects area radiation deviations and test detection equipment to ensure accuracy.

  • 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.