Project Management AI Research Contributor
Required skills
- Excel
- project budgets
- earned value
- nested formulas
- conditional formatting
- written English communication
- AI concepts
- Evals
- independent contractor
- remote
Nice to have
- construction
- infrastructure
- IT
- business transformation
- capital projects
Role summary
Aptura is seeking Subject Matter Experts in project or program management from sectors like construction, infrastructure, or IT. The role involves creating realistic Excel-based tasks to evaluate AI's project management capabilities. Responsibilities include writing tasks, ensuring correct answers, and defining precise grading criteria. Requires 3+ years of project/program/PMO experience, deep Excel proficiency (budgets, earned value, formulas, debugging), strong written English, and attention to detail. Familiarity with AI concepts is preferred. This is a fully remote, contract role with task-based payment, estimated at 4-6 weeks.
About the Role
Aptura is looking for Subject Matter Experts from project or programme management, in sectors such as construction, infrastructure or IT, who build project budgets, schedules and trackers in Excel. You have used AI tools on your own work and been frustrated by the mistakes they make. You will turn that experience into realistic Excel tasks that test how well AI does the work of a Project Manager.
Responsibilities
Writing realistic Excel tasks drawn from your own work: extending existing models, fixing broken ones and building from a brief
Working through each task yourself so there is a clear, correct answer
Writing yes-or-no criteria precise enough that a grader can mark any attempt against them
Necessary Qualifications
3+ years in project, programme or PMO roles, in sectors such as construction, infrastructure, IT, business transformation or capital projects
Deep hands-on Excel: project budgets, earned value, nested formulas, conditional formatting and debugging
Strong written English communication skills.
Attention to detail, and willingness to learn concepts in AI and Evals
Additional Information
Start Date : Immediate
Duration: Approximately 4–6 weeks
Payment: task-based. Experts who complete their first task within the required timeline will then be qualified to do multiple tasks for the remainder of the project.
Contract and Payment Terms
You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
Your work at Aptura will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
Payments will be weekly following task completion.
Getting Started
Apply with your details and CV. Choose an available 30-minute group walkthrough call.
Attend the walkthrough and create one original task from your own work. Submit the brief, the actual input workbook(s) needed to complete it. Input-file uploads are compulsory.
Write the brief yourself. Input workbooks must also be human-built. Use real data that has been sanitised, or public data with the source named. No AI usage allowed.
We run your task against current frontier AI models. If the models get it wrong, you then write a detailed yes-or-no rubric, and a reviewer signs off on the task with you.
Completing onboarding does not guarantee a job offer; selection remains subject to written approval of the task proposal.
About Aptura
Aptura is an applied AI and data company working with frontier labs to train AI systems on real professional work. We do this by building high-quality evaluation and training environments that teach AI agents to produce work that can be used in daily workflows.
