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Remote Sciences (AI) Jobs in New Zealand 2026

206 remote jobs open to candidates in New Zealand in Sciences (AI). Updated daily.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics AI Research +12 Reasoning Auditing Mathematics MATCH Gaussian Index Combinatorics Calculus Geometry Analysis LaTeX Python
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics Thermodynamics AI +12 Research Reasoning Auditing MATCH Index Gaussian Transformations Mechanics Algebra Analysis LaTeX Python
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Cosmology Astrophysics Physics +12 AI Research Reasoning Auditing MATCH Dynamics Communication Modeling X-ray LaTeX Python SymPy
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics AI Research +12 Reasoning Auditing MATCH Angular Communication Gaussian Dynamics Quantization Precision Electron Interference Simulation
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics AI Research +12 Reasoning Auditing MATCH Communication Geometry Analysis Index LaTeX Python SymPy Jupyter English
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics AI Research +12 Reasoning Auditing MATCH Optics Channels Optimization Probability Calculus Linear Simulation Interference Inequality
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Mercor
AI Expert - Physics Contractor · Part-time
Physics AI Research +12 Reasoning Auditing MATCH Algebra Statistics Channels Thermodynamics Electron Communication Analysis Geometry Localization
  • Remote (Global)
  • $80 – $110/hr
  • Sep 25, 2026

CritPt is a public benchmark of research-level physics challenges, built to test whether frontier AI models can carry out genuine physics research reasoning rather than textbook problem solving. The benchmark paper is arXiv:2509.26574 and we recommend reading it before applying.

Turing
AI Expert - Biology Contractor
Biology AI Reasoning +12 Healthcare Research Curation Microsoft Teams Training Infrastructure Accuracy Consistency Mechanical Systems Literature Rubrics Confidentiality
  • Remote (Global)
  • Sep 24, 2026

Turing’s mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality data, evaluations, and reinforcement learning environments that improve model capabilities in coding,…

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Biology Contractor ↘ +6 regions
AI Reasoning Literature +11 Mechanical Systems Interpretation Biology Research English Training Make Flexible Life Sciences Experimental Design Data Interpretation
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models blur the line between what's established, what's contested, and what's simply made up in the life sciences, and they cite papers that don't exist.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Mathematics Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Mathematics Reasoning AI +8 Writing LaTeX English Training Make Flexible Mathematical Reasoning Applied Mathematics
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Frontier models still fail at rigorous multi-step mathematics: invalid derivations, unjustified leaps, and confidently wrong final answers. Automated checks can't grade a proof. You can.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Physics Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Physics AI Reasoning +8 Mechanics Thermodynamics Research English Training Make Flexible Graduate-Level Physics
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models can recite physics and still get it wrong: dimensional errors, misapplied approximations, and derivations that skip the step where the physics actually happens.

DataAnnotation.tech
AI Expert - Chemistry Contractor ↘ +6 regions
Mechanical Systems Procedures AI +8 Reasoning Interpretation Chemistry English Training Make Flexible Physical Chemistry
  • Australia, Canada, Ireland +3New ZealandUnited KingdomUnited States
  • Up to $125+/hr
  • Sep 22, 2026

Models routinely propose impossible mechanisms, unsafe procedures, and syntheses that no bench chemist would attempt. As a Chemist you'll evaluate AI chemical reasoning, catch what's wrong or unsafe, and write the answers a trained chemist would give.

Turing
Research Engineering Command Line +12 Geophysics Geology AI Python Shell Scripting Analysis Modeling Forecasting Transformations Accuracy Metadata Hydrology
  • Remote (Global)
  • $300 per task
  • Sep 21, 2026

We are seeking Earth Sciences experts to develop realistic, terminal-based scientific tasks for Terminal Bench Science. You will create computational workflows involving environmental data, climate systems, atmospheric processes, geophysics, oceanography, geology, and related…

Turing
AI Expert - Biology Contractor
Infrastructure AI Training +12 Engineering Programming Reasoning Research Python Bioinformatics Genomics Biology Neuroscience Biostatistics Biochemistry Microbiology
  • Remote (Global)
  • $280 per approved task
  • Sep 21, 2026

Turing is one of the world’s leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

Sovrano AI
AI Expert - Physics Part-time ↘ +6 regions
AI Audit Training +12 Reasoning Physics Accuracy Logic Engineering English Monday.com Licensing Red Teaming Annotation Writing Go
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada +3AustraliaNew ZealandEurope
  • $35 – $49/hr
  • Sep 21, 2026

Sovrano AI builds evaluation and training data for frontier AI labs, and this panel audits nuclear and radiological answers specifically. Each task gives you one user request and the answers three different models produced for it.

Turing
AI Expert - Biology Contractor
Bioinformatics Genomics Infrastructure +12 AI Training Engineering Biology Analysis Python Command Line Research Genetics Programming Linux Transcriptomics
  • Remote (Global)
  • $260 per approved task
  • Sep 17, 2026

Turing is one of the world’s leading AGI infrastructure companies, working with frontier AI labs to accelerate model development through high-quality training data, evaluations, and engineering talent.

Mercor
AI Expert - Biology Contractor
Research Microsoft Teams AI +12 Training MATCH Writing Analysis Interpretation Statistics Communication Reasoning Biology Chemistry Physics Astronomy
  • Remote (Global)
  • $60 – $120/hr
  • Sep 15, 2026

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for scientific judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.

Mercor
Chemistry Research Microsoft Teams +11 AI Training MATCH Writing Mechanical Systems Flask Communication Reasoning AI Training Computational Research Written communication
  • Remote (Global)
  • $65 – $105/hr
  • Sep 15, 2026

The research teams behind the best-known AI models come to Mercor for chemistry judgment they can't generate on their own. Your standards and expertise become the rubric that frontier AI is graded against.

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