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Join Handshake as a Farmers, Ranchers, and Agricultural Manager to help evaluate AI models in your field. Leverage your professional expertise to provide structured feedback for this flexible, remote contract role.

Responsibilities: Evaluate AI model outputs and develop prompts related to agricultural practices, while delivering feedback to improve AI understanding of the field.

Skills: Professional experience in agriculture, ability to assess and provide feedback on AI models, and familiarity with agricultural data and practices.

Qualifications: At least 4 years of related professional experience in farming or agricultural management.

Location: Remote from anywhere, with opportunities available in San Francisco, California, United States.

Compensation: $75 - $75 / Hourly

Overview

Handshake is recruiting Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Manager 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
• Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.
• Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display or exhibition, or for research.
• Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledge of management and fish culturing techniques.
• Direct and monitor the transfer of mature fish to lakes, ponds, streams, or commercial tanks.
• Determine how to allocate resources and respond to unanticipated problems, such as insect infestation, drought, and fire.
• Determine plant growing conditions—such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings—and set planting and care schedules.
• Devise and participate in activities to improve fish hatching and growth rates, and to prevent disease in hatcheries.
• Position and regulate plant irrigation systems, and program environmental and irrigation control computers.
• Prepare reports required by state and federal laws.
• Inspect facilities and equipment for signs of disrepair, and perform necessary maintenance work.
• Maintain financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.
• Coordinate clerical, record-keeping, inventory, requisitioning, and marketing activities.
• Direct the breeding or raising of stock—such as cattle, poultry, or honeybees—using recognized breeding practices to ensure stock improvement.
• Negotiate with buyers for the sale, storage, or shipment of crops or livestock.
• Coordinate the selection and maintenance of brood stock.
• Analyze soil to determine types or quantities of fertilizer required for maximum crop production.
• Provide information to customers on the care of trees, shrubs, flowers, plants, and lawns.
• Analyze market conditions to determine acreage allocations.
• Supervise the construction of farm or ranch structures, such as buildings, fences, drainage systems, wells, or roads.
• Replace chemical insecticides with environmentally friendly practices, such as adding pest-repelling plants to fields.
• Conduct inspections to determine crop maturity or condition or to detect disease or insect infestation.
• Conduct or supervise stock examinations to identify diseases or parasites.
• Determine types or quantities of crops, plants, or livestock to be grown and raised, based on budgets, federal incentives, market conditions, executive directives, projected sales volumes, or soil conditions.
• Determine, administer, and execute policies relating to operations administration and standards, facility maintenance, and safety.
• Direct crop production operations such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, and harvesting.
• Evaluate marketing or sales alternatives for products.
• Hire, supervise, and train support workers.
• Monitor activities such as irrigation, chemical application, harvesting, milking, breeding, and grading to ensure adherence to safety regulations or standards.
• Monitor environments to ensure maintenance of optimum animal or plant life.
• Obtain financing for and purchase necessary machinery, land, supplies, or livestock.
• 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.